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New Humorous Mystery Novel: THE UNGRATEFUL DEAD
My new mystery novella, THE UNGRATEFUL DEAD, is now available on Amazon! This is the prequel to The Zen Man
Throughout the month of March, THE UNGRATEFUL DEAD will be on sale at the introductory price of 99 cents. Click here to go the book's Amazon page.
Book Excerpt: Preface
In 2008, I wrote a mystery short story, The Ungrateful Dead, based on two characters, Rick Levine (a private investigator) and Laura Fitzhugh (his girlfriend), who spend their first romantic weekend together at a coroner’s conference. I can guess what you’re thinking: “Is she kidding? A romantic weekend at a coroner’s conference?” I happen to know this is possible because, as the saying goes, I’ve been there and done that.
During the decade that my husband and I ran a private detective agency in Denver, Colorado, we were invited several times by our state coroner association to give presentations at their annual conferences. Both times, the association treated us to a lovely hotel room, paid for our meals, and more. Just like Rick and Laura in The Ungrateful Dead, we made romantic weekends out of hanging out with a lot of coroners.
A few years after writing The Ungrateful Dead, I wrote a mystery novel, The Zen Man, featuring Rick and Laura and their life five months after the coroners’ conference. The Zen Man was a lot of fun to write, and ended up a semifinalist in the Kindle Book Reviews’ Best Indie Books of 2012, as well as being a BookRooster.com Reviewers’ Pick in 2013.
Several readers asked if there would be another novel featuring Rick and Laura, and yes, a sequel to The Zen Man is in process. Meanwhile, I decided to flesh out The Ungrateful Dead to introduce readers to Rick and Laura in the early days of their relationship, and how they ended up investigating their first case together after a dead body is found at a coroner’s conference.
Which sounds like the perfect setting for a murder mystery, wouldn’t you agree?
Throughout the month of March, THE UNGRATEFUL DEAD will be on sale at the introductory price of 99 cents. Click here to go the book's Amazon page.
Book Excerpt: Preface
In 2008, I wrote a mystery short story, The Ungrateful Dead, based on two characters, Rick Levine (a private investigator) and Laura Fitzhugh (his girlfriend), who spend their first romantic weekend together at a coroner’s conference. I can guess what you’re thinking: “Is she kidding? A romantic weekend at a coroner’s conference?” I happen to know this is possible because, as the saying goes, I’ve been there and done that.
During the decade that my husband and I ran a private detective agency in Denver, Colorado, we were invited several times by our state coroner association to give presentations at their annual conferences. Both times, the association treated us to a lovely hotel room, paid for our meals, and more. Just like Rick and Laura in The Ungrateful Dead, we made romantic weekends out of hanging out with a lot of coroners.
A few years after writing The Ungrateful Dead, I wrote a mystery novel, The Zen Man, featuring Rick and Laura and their life five months after the coroners’ conference. The Zen Man was a lot of fun to write, and ended up a semifinalist in the Kindle Book Reviews’ Best Indie Books of 2012, as well as being a BookRooster.com Reviewers’ Pick in 2013.
Several readers asked if there would be another novel featuring Rick and Laura, and yes, a sequel to The Zen Man is in process. Meanwhile, I decided to flesh out The Ungrateful Dead to introduce readers to Rick and Laura in the early days of their relationship, and how they ended up investigating their first case together after a dead body is found at a coroner’s conference.
Which sounds like the perfect setting for a murder mystery, wouldn’t you agree?
