Jern Tonkoi

Character-driven queer love stories

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Three Memento Mori trilogy covers, with The Boy with the Crow in front.

Memento Mori

Memento Mori is a completed queer psychological crime trilogy about murder, evidence, obsession, and the dangerous places love can go when people mistake possession for care.
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Three Treggan Bay Mysteries book covers, with Murder in Treggan Bay in front.

Treggan Bay Mysteries

Welcome to Treggan Bay: a fictional South Devon village of cottages, cafes, watchmen, manor houses, and secrets that have survived because everyone knows when to look away.
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About Jern Tonkoi

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I write character-driven queer love stories with a literary-fiction sensibility, focused on flawed people, chosen family, and the difficult work of change.

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