Tuesday Teaser: Judy Alter’s Desperate for Death

 

Please welcome Judy Alter to the blog today!

An award-winning novelist, Judy Alter is the author of six books in the Kelly O’Connell Mysteries series: Skeleton in a Dead Space, No Neighborhood for Old Women, Trouble in a Big Box, Danger Comes Home, Deception in Strange Places, and Desperate for Death. She also writes the Blue Plate Café Mysteries—Murder at the Blue Plate Café and Murder at the Tremont House and The Oak Grove Mysteries which debuted in 2014 with The Perfect Coed. A third Blue Plate, Murder at the Mansion, is due out in the fall.

Her work has been recognized with awards from the Western Writers of America, the Texas Institute of Letters, and the National Cowboy Museum and Hall of Fame. She has been honored with the Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Achievement by WWA and inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame and the WWA Hall of Fame.

Judy is retired as director of TCU Press, the mother of four grown children and the grandmother of seven. She and her Bordoodle, Sophie, live in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Desperate for Death

Just when Kelly’s life has calmed, she faces yet another of life’s puzzles. Except the pieces in this one don’t fit. First the apartment behind her house is torched, then a string of bizarre “accidents” occur to set her off-balance. Who is stalking her? Where does the disappearance of a young girl and her disreputable boyfriend fit in? And why are two men using the same name? Is the surprise inheritance another part of the puzzle? At a time when she is most vulnerable, Kelly can’t make the pieces fit, but she knows she must protect her daughters. Before Kelly can get the whole picture, she helps the family of a hostage, rescues a kidnap victim and attends a wild and wonderful wedding.

Excerpt:

I started down the driveway and saw out of the corner of my eye movement in the bushes to the side. Just as I screamed, a dark figure ran toward me and before I could move head-butted me in the stomach—so hard that I lost my breath and fell on my back on the driveway. Within seconds Mike and the girls were outside, Gus having heard my scream if they didn’t, and the figure was gone. Mike paused only a second to make sure I was breathing and talking and then took off to find the assailant, calling over his shoulder for Maggie to stay with me and Em to go call 911.

 

Buy link for Desperate for Death: http://www.amazon.com/Desperate-Death...