SAGATHRILLER
Meat Cove combines saga and thriller via Fundy’s lurid diary, which appears
between each chapter, forming a tale within a tale. As Fundy’s grim memories
slowly come back to life, her past and present collide in a riveting
conclusion worthy of the first sagathriller.
Date Published: January 22, 2026
Publisher: Seacoast Press
head and a veritable ossuary of skeletons in her closet. A former JTF-2
sniper, Fundy is quietly raising daughter Skye in Cape Breton Island, Nova
Scotia when three events upend her careful obscurity: Skye brings home a DNA
ancestry kit; the doppelgänger of Fundy’s runaway mother settles in tiny
White Point; and an erratic Venezuelan ship passes through the Cabot Strait.
As local disturbances and international tensions escalate around a NATO
conference in Halifax, Fundy must leave her safe lane and resurrect an
implacable past. Generational love story meets geopolitical suspense in a SAGA
THRILLER barreling across the North Atlantic.
EXCERPT
Calm surf woke me. My nose felt cold. As predawn light pearled my bedroom walls, I swept an arm over the sheets: Pascal had gone but his scent lingered, teasing my blood. Last night we had slept naked for the first time since October. A splendid outing, but I’d soon be paying the price for such indulgence. I burrowed beneath my Hudson’s Bay blanket, wishing I could wear it to work or better yet, stay in bed. Waking teemed with such fantasies.
Janice Weber grew up in Ridgewood, New Jersey and graduated summa cum laude
from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.
At the time of her Carnegie Recital Hall debut at age nine, she was writing
her first short stories. She has continued both pursuits, with her novels
providing counterpoint to the staid world of a concert pianist, or perhaps
with her recitals offsetting the staid world of a writer.
Janice’s novels have a worldwide following. Her debut, The Secret Life
of Eva Hathaway, enjoys near cult status and is widely recognized as iconic
Chick Lit – though appearing years before the genre was invented. Its
colorful characters, verbal virtuosity, wit, and sensuality established the
hallmarks of a style that has earned Weber comparison with Mark Twain, Fran
Liebowitz, Harold Pinter, and Robert Ludlum (if such a hybrid can be
imagined).
Janice’s novels happen between (and occasionally during) concerts. Music
on some level infiltrates almost every book: Eva Hathaway writes hymns between
trysts, Floyd Beck met the love of his life at Carnegie Hall, Leslie Frost is
a concert violinist, and Ross Major listens to Beethoven when the going gets
rough. Characters without music in their lives fill the void with swinging,
murder, and treason, activities musicians tend to eschew since this would
detract from practice time.
Janice divides her time between fishing villages in Massachusetts and Cape
Breton.
