Penny Pinching (U)

Penny Wanawake #6

by Susan Moody

Finding a corpse on your sundeck isn't much fun, and for Penny Wanawake, just arrived in California, it's all the more alarming when the deceased could be her twin sister - beautiful, black and six feet tall. A kind of warning or a straight case of mistaken identity? Penny decides that rather than wait for the police to find the villain, she'll investigate the case herself. But beforeshe's even begun, her father, the Senangan Ambassador to the UN, is kidnapped. Which makes another problem for Penny to solve...

Genres: Fiction, Mystery

416 pages, Hardcover

Published February 1, 1991

About the author

She grew up in Oxford then moved to Tennessee for 10 years. She published two historical novels and the novelisation of the Nescafe Gold Blend advertisements under the pen name Susannah James. More recently she has also used the nom de plume, Susan Madison. She is a former Chairman of the Crime Writer's Association, served as World President of the International Association of Crime Writers, and was elected to the prestigious Detection Club. Susan Moody has given numerous courses on writing crime fiction and continues to teach creative writing in England, France, Australia, the USA and Denmark