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January 23, 2022
Coming soon! Direct Evidence
The fourth Letty Valdez mystery, Direct Evidence will be published around the 20th of February. I'm looking for ARC readers. Contact me for a free copy in exchange for a review.
Private investigator Letty Valdez takes on a new case, but within minutes, the new client is shot and killed just outside of Letty’s office. Letty sets off on a search to find the murdered client’s teenage son. This leads to Letty and her assistant, Frankie Miranda, uncovering a cybercrime. As a result, both Letty and Frankie become targets. At the same time, Letty also recovers a kidnapped infant, stops a serial rapist, and deals with a vengeful criminal who wants to do her harm. Through it all, Letty is backed up by her favorite man, Dr. Dan, who wants, most of all, to keep Letty safe.
Private investigator Letty Valdez takes on a new case, but within minutes, the new client is shot and killed just outside of Letty’s office. Letty sets off on a search to find the murdered client’s teenage son. This leads to Letty and her assistant, Frankie Miranda, uncovering a cybercrime. As a result, both Letty and Frankie become targets. At the same time, Letty also recovers a kidnapped infant, stops a serial rapist, and deals with a vengeful criminal who wants to do her harm. Through it all, Letty is backed up by her favorite man, Dr. Dan, who wants, most of all, to keep Letty safe.
January 1, 2022
*Kissed" on sale
"Kissed: Cat Miranda Mystery #1" is now on sale for only 99 cents. Kissed has received 4.52 stars from readers on Goodreads. The book title and cover refers to a painting in Cat's art gallery in Bisbee, Arizona, with the same title.
Kissed is a cozy mystery with a big spoonful of romance. His name is Miles and he's an Englishman from Sussex who takes a liking to Ms. Miranda. The feeling is reciprocated. :-)
Universal Book Link from Books2Read:
https://books2read.com/u/4AOk0N
Go to this link to learn more:
https://www.cjshane.com/cat-miranda-m...
Kissed is a cozy mystery with a big spoonful of romance. His name is Miles and he's an Englishman from Sussex who takes a liking to Ms. Miranda. The feeling is reciprocated. :-)
Universal Book Link from Books2Read:
https://books2read.com/u/4AOk0N
Go to this link to learn more:
https://www.cjshane.com/cat-miranda-m...
August 3, 2021
New! Fair Play
I have a new book out! Just published:
Fair Play: Cat Miranda Mystery #2
Fair Play is a stand-alone cozy mystery with a very big, very friendly dog named Tito. Here's the blurb.
Cat Miranda’s art exhibition in Bisbee, Arizona, is going well until events suddenly take a dark turn. Jeremy Flores, Cat’s childhood friend and personal attorney, has disappeared. Cat and her favorite Englishman, Miles Trevelyan, quickly locate Jeremy only to learn that he has been brutally assaulted. Cat and Miles begin a quest to identify and stop the assailant, as well as to seek links to two murders. They get help from Miles’s father, retired Sussex police detective Ian Trevelyan, Star Tavern-owner Amanda Fontaine, attorney Ana Hernandez, art expert Freddy Howard, and a big black dog named Tito who likes to play fetch when he’s not protecting Cat. This Arizona-Sonora Borderlands tale has mystery and suspense plus a spoonful of seasoned romance.
Link: Here's the link to Fair Play
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
Fair Play: Cat Miranda Mystery #2
Fair Play is a stand-alone cozy mystery with a very big, very friendly dog named Tito. Here's the blurb.
Cat Miranda’s art exhibition in Bisbee, Arizona, is going well until events suddenly take a dark turn. Jeremy Flores, Cat’s childhood friend and personal attorney, has disappeared. Cat and her favorite Englishman, Miles Trevelyan, quickly locate Jeremy only to learn that he has been brutally assaulted. Cat and Miles begin a quest to identify and stop the assailant, as well as to seek links to two murders. They get help from Miles’s father, retired Sussex police detective Ian Trevelyan, Star Tavern-owner Amanda Fontaine, attorney Ana Hernandez, art expert Freddy Howard, and a big black dog named Tito who likes to play fetch when he’s not protecting Cat. This Arizona-Sonora Borderlands tale has mystery and suspense plus a spoonful of seasoned romance.
Link: Here's the link to Fair Play
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
February 22, 2021
Science Fiction & Fantasy Recommendations
Let's see if Goodreads will allow this. BookBub has a lot of terrific recommendations for reading. Here's one titled "14 Science Fiction and Fantasy With Nearly Perfect Reader Reviews."
https://www.bookbub.com/blog/new-scie...
So many good books....so little time. [sigh]
https://www.bookbub.com/blog/new-scie...
So many good books....so little time. [sigh]
August 19, 2020
Cat Miranda Interview
Cat Miranda, gallerista and amateur sleuth in Bisbee, Arizona, is interviewed in Anastasia Pollack's latest blog post, Killer Crafts & Crafty Killers, https://anastasiapollack.blogspot.com...
Feel free to ask Cat a question...or make a comment
Cat is the protagonist in the first Cat Miranda Mystery, "Kissed," which is a cozy mystery with a big spoonful of romance. (Hint: His name is Miles.)
Feel free to ask Cat a question...or make a comment
Cat is the protagonist in the first Cat Miranda Mystery, "Kissed," which is a cozy mystery with a big spoonful of romance. (Hint: His name is Miles.)
July 16, 2020
Summer Mystery sale
Great opportunity to get 54 summer mystery reads available via BookFunnel:
Summer Mystery Reads
https://books.bookfunnel.com/summermy...
This includes Desert Jade: A Letty Valdez Mystery, first in the Letty Valdez Mystery series. https://dl.bookfunnel.com/lcav2zt6qu
Desert Jade was named a finalist for Best Thriller-Suspense book, 2018 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards.
Tucson Chicana/Native American private investigator and Iraq War veteran Letty Valdez joins forces with an unlikely ally, Chinese police Detective Inspector Zhou Liang Wei, in this fast-paced mystery-suspense thriller set in the Sonoran Desert.
We meet a migrant lost and out of water in the desert, Chinese triad gangsters engaged in criminal activities on the U.S.-Mexico border, a woman murdered in her backyard, a husband who vanished with a large sum of money, and three abducted young women threatened with sex trafficking.
There's a touch of romance, too, when cop Zhou meets one of Letty's friends. Don't forget Milagro (aka Millie), the runt-sized female pit bull who performs a heroic act and saves a life.
Next after Desert Jade look for the second in the series, Dragon's Revenge: A Letty Valdez Mystery.
Summer Mystery Reads
https://books.bookfunnel.com/summermy...
This includes Desert Jade: A Letty Valdez Mystery, first in the Letty Valdez Mystery series. https://dl.bookfunnel.com/lcav2zt6qu
Desert Jade was named a finalist for Best Thriller-Suspense book, 2018 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards.
Tucson Chicana/Native American private investigator and Iraq War veteran Letty Valdez joins forces with an unlikely ally, Chinese police Detective Inspector Zhou Liang Wei, in this fast-paced mystery-suspense thriller set in the Sonoran Desert.
We meet a migrant lost and out of water in the desert, Chinese triad gangsters engaged in criminal activities on the U.S.-Mexico border, a woman murdered in her backyard, a husband who vanished with a large sum of money, and three abducted young women threatened with sex trafficking.
There's a touch of romance, too, when cop Zhou meets one of Letty's friends. Don't forget Milagro (aka Millie), the runt-sized female pit bull who performs a heroic act and saves a life.
Next after Desert Jade look for the second in the series, Dragon's Revenge: A Letty Valdez Mystery.
June 19, 2020
Splash into Series
Today, June 19 through June 25 (7 days only) Splash into Series on LitRing.
Includes giveaway of Amazon gift cards.
My mystery-suspense Desert Jade: A Letty Valdez Mystery ebook only $1.99.
Click on the first link to see all the mysteries and on the second to see Desert Jade.
https://www.litring.com/series/#mystery
https://www.litring.com/2020/06/17/de...
Includes giveaway of Amazon gift cards.
My mystery-suspense Desert Jade: A Letty Valdez Mystery ebook only $1.99.
Click on the first link to see all the mysteries and on the second to see Desert Jade.
https://www.litring.com/series/#mystery
https://www.litring.com/2020/06/17/de...
October 18, 2019
99 cents: Dragon's Revenge
FINALIST for 2019 Best Fiction Mystery-Crime and FINALIST for 2019 Best Multi-Cultural Book, New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards. Ebook now on sale for 99 cents!
When Tucson private detective and Iraq War vet Letty Valdez is hired to investigate a murder, she immediately finds herself targeted by a violent criminal. To find the killer, Letty turns to an old memoir of life in late 19th century Tucson. Clues in the memoir, with its tale of love between two immigrants - one, an Italian widow, and the other, an exiled Chinese revolutionary - launch Letty on a suspense-filled struggle to find answers, to stop the murderer – and to stay alive! Letty, a Chicana/Native American, has to deal with a mugging, a home invasion and a shootout on the Tohono O’odham Reservation in her attempts to find the criminal who is targeting her. Letty is helped by her friends and family, plus a new canine pal, Teddy the Black Lab sniffer dog. Like all Letty Valdez Mysteries, there’s excitement, intrigue and a touch of romance in Dragon’s Revenge.
When Tucson private detective and Iraq War vet Letty Valdez is hired to investigate a murder, she immediately finds herself targeted by a violent criminal. To find the killer, Letty turns to an old memoir of life in late 19th century Tucson. Clues in the memoir, with its tale of love between two immigrants - one, an Italian widow, and the other, an exiled Chinese revolutionary - launch Letty on a suspense-filled struggle to find answers, to stop the murderer – and to stay alive! Letty, a Chicana/Native American, has to deal with a mugging, a home invasion and a shootout on the Tohono O’odham Reservation in her attempts to find the criminal who is targeting her. Letty is helped by her friends and family, plus a new canine pal, Teddy the Black Lab sniffer dog. Like all Letty Valdez Mysteries, there’s excitement, intrigue and a touch of romance in Dragon’s Revenge.
August 8, 2019
Daemon Waters TODAY!
Today the is the official publication day of Daemon Waters: A Letty Valdez Mystery (third in the series). Available in print and ebook forms in all the regular places. But it's not on my profile page yet (coming soon!)
This Letty Valdez mystery is dedicated to all our military veterans in the hopes that they all come home safe and sound in mind and body.
This Letty Valdez mystery is dedicated to all our military veterans in the hopes that they all come home safe and sound in mind and body.
June 29, 2019
ARC readers for mystery-suspense
I'm seeking ARC (Advanced Reader Copy) readers for my third Letty Valdez Mystery to be published Aug. 8. Readers get a free ebook copy and promise to write and post a review for Amazon, & Goodreads & Bookbub, too. I'm especially interested in hearing from women who are Army veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. Email editor@ropesendpublishing.com for more info. Here's the blurb for Daemon Waters, the next Letty Valdez Mystery.
Tucson private detective and Army veteran Letty Valdez finds the Iraq War has come home to haunt her in Daemon Waters: A Letty Valdez Mystery. Letty is hired to investigate the murder of an environmentalist, ferret out a cheating husband, and find two missing vets. She discovers a sinister web of interconnected crimes, including a car bombing and two long-distance sniper assassinations. Letty’s deepest concern, though, is for that special veteran, the one who wants to hold and comfort her when she suffers from her PTSD nightmares. Can she keep him safe from an assassin’s bullet? Like all Letty mysteries, Daemon Waters has suspense, intrigue, and a touch of romance in this Mexico-U.S. Borderlands thriller.
Tucson private detective and Army veteran Letty Valdez finds the Iraq War has come home to haunt her in Daemon Waters: A Letty Valdez Mystery. Letty is hired to investigate the murder of an environmentalist, ferret out a cheating husband, and find two missing vets. She discovers a sinister web of interconnected crimes, including a car bombing and two long-distance sniper assassinations. Letty’s deepest concern, though, is for that special veteran, the one who wants to hold and comfort her when she suffers from her PTSD nightmares. Can she keep him safe from an assassin’s bullet? Like all Letty mysteries, Daemon Waters has suspense, intrigue, and a touch of romance in this Mexico-U.S. Borderlands thriller.
My Two Hats: Art and Writing
I'm a visual artist and a writer of mystery and suspense. Blame my first-grade teacher. She told me to write a poem and illustrate it. So I've been painting and writing since age six. I don't know whi
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