Music To Die For

Something to Die For #2

by Radine Trees Nehring

MUSIC TO DIE FOR is set at Ozark Folk Center State Park in remote Stone County, AR. Carrie and several friends have planned a weekend vacation at the Folk Center, where they're signed up for craft classes.

Crafts take a back seat to a kidnapping, arson, and murder after Dulcey Mason, four-year old daughter of famous country musicians Chase Mason and Tracy Teal, disappears, and her abductor is found stabbed, his house burned. Romance blossoms again between Carrie and her best friend, Henry King, as they rush to save a child, solve a murder, and repair tragically broken lives. Can they do it before they, too, become victims of MUSIC TO DIE FOR?

300 pages, Library Binding

First published October 1, 2003

About the author

For more than twenty years, Radine Trees Nehring's magazine features, essays, newspaper articles, and radio broadcasts have been sharing colorful stories about the people, places, events, and natural world near her Arkansas home. She's also the author of a book of essays set in the Ozarks. "DEAR EARTH: A Love Letter from Spring Hollow" was published in 1995.

"Until I began to write about Carrie McCrite, I'd dealt only in facts," she says. "What fun it is to take those facts and the settings I love, add people entangled in problems and seeking answers to important life questions, and come up with mystery fiction that shares my world with readers everywhere."

Nehring's research takes her to the places her characters go. She's visited Arkansas tourist destinations, hiked hills and hollows, crawled through caves, spent time in jail (while training for the jail ministry), and--as a news reporter--interviewed officials in every branch of law enforcement. She and her husband John live in the Arkansas Ozarks.

Nehring's major at Principia College in Illinois was Fine Arts. She's done post-graduate work in English and creative writing at the University of Tulsa, and in the University of Iowa Summer Writing Program.

Reviews

[Michelle]

Music To Die For
Radine Trees Nehring
Mystery
273 pages
copyright: 2003
isbn: 0-9661879-8-9

Carrie McCrite goes to a tourism convention at Ozark Folk Center State Park and walks into kindnapping and murder. Dulcey Mason, four-year-old daughter of famous country musicians Chase Mason and Tracy Teal, disappears, and her kidnapper is found stabbed. Romance ignites again between Carrie and her best friend Henry King as they rush to save a child, solve a murder, and repair tragically broken lives before they, too, become victims of Music To Die For.

[Kitty Tomlinson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Carrie and Henry are at a Folk Life Center and become involved in saving the kidnapped daughter of a country music duo. Fun read.

[Bonnie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Slow and somewhat trite, but I like the setting.

[Beverly · Rating 4 out of 5]

The second book in the "To Die For" series. I enjoyed it just as much as the first one.