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Acknowledgements
As always, this creative journey could never have been completed without the help of some very talented and generous people: Robynne Graffam, my extraordinary daughter and editor, and Hench Murray my wonderful husband and copyeditor. You wouldn’t think relatives could be so good at this, but they are! And then there’s Daniel Middleton, my excellent cover artist. I’m grateful to all of you more than you can know.
Huge thanks also to beta readers Nancy Labs and Sonja Haggert for their extremely valuable feedback. Thanks, too, to Donald Shrawder for sharing his expertise and to Gretchen Hall, for guiding me to Pamelia S. Stratton and Jerri Williams, retired FBI agent and Media Director for SEPTA. Your help was exactly what the book needed.
Donna
Other books by Donna Huston Murray:
The First Lauren Beck Crime Novel
Honorable Mention, Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards ’15 WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU, The Mystery: Lauren Beck’s friends, phone, home, credit and credibility are gone, severed with surgical precision by an enemy intent on framing her for murder. Is it one of the insureds she was hired to investigate? The fellow employee she upstaged? Does the daughter of her landlady and dear friend, Corinne Wilder, hate her even more than she thought?
Whoever targeted her should beware. A former cop who survived cancer knows how to fight for her life.
The Ginger Barnes Main Line Mysteries
THE MAIN LINE IS MURDER #1 Achieved #2 in Kindle store for Female Sleuths: When her husband becomes head of a school on Philadelphia’s tony Main Line, Ginger Barnes learns that small private schools need volunteers like the national debt needs taxes. She also learns that murder on the campus can kill the school’s reputation in a heartbeat. Gin’s Mop Squad job allows her to investigate without arousing suspicion, but can she expose the murderer in time to save the school–and her family’s new home–without exposing herself? If she succeeds, will her good deed go unpunished?
FINAL ARRANGEMENTS: #2 Achieved #1 in Kindle store for Mysteries and Female Sleuths: Fierce competitor Iffy Bigelow gets herself strangled at the world-famous Philadelphia Flower Show, and if she ever wants to hear the end of it, Ginger Barnes must dig through hundreds of suspects to unearth whoever killed her mother’s dear old friend.
SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS #3: A daylight burglary turns to murder when Ginger Barnes’s neighborhood friend returns home at the worst possible time. Thefts and threats and wild accusations swiftly follow, but it’s the attack on elderly eccentric Letty MacNair that hammers the message home—anybody could be next. Some discreet inquiries by an experienced amateur sleuth might speed the investigation along, but this is Gin’s safe haven we’re talking about. Does she have something more daring in mind?
NO BONES ABOUT IT #4: Ginger Barnes’s old high-school friend has been arrested for training her German shepherd to fatally attack her ex-husband. Linda begs Gin to save her dog’s life, but that can’t be done without first saving Linda. The investigation leads the sometime sleuth deep into the dog’s world of shutzhund and lure coursing and exposes her to an especially odd assortment of suspects–several bitterly disappointed w eight-loss patients, a militant vegan, and the mourning father of an anorexic daughter.
A SCORE TO SETTLE #5, When the murder of an NFL quarterback endangers her family, savvy football fan and sometime-sleuth, Ginger Barnes, rushes to Norfolk, VA. Terrified that her husband will be accused of killing his longtime rival, Gin’s cousin Michelle has been hospitalized to save her pregnancy. No amount of hand-holding or take-out food will do. Gin must tackle the suspicions head-on to save an innocent life.
And:
DYING FOR A VACATION, Who could refuse a two-week stay in a chateau perched on the edge of the Mediterranean? Certainly not Richard, who was fed up to his easel with the damp London weather. Babysitting a treasure-filled museum while his old Sorbonne roommate honeymooned in Spain was the least he could do. The vandals who’d been plaguing the chateau wouldn’t dare return, the repairmen Tom hired would be completely trustworthy, and “murder” was only found in something by Agatha Christie. Richard might even meet a woman, someone capable of surprising him like never before. He should go. He really should. He was dying for a vacation.
In real life Donna assumes she can fix anything until proven wrong, calls trash-picking recycling, and, in spite of past experience, got another Irish setter.
Donna and husband, Hench, live in the greater Philadelphia, PA, area. They have two adult children.
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