Cindy Daniel is the 2004 President of Sisters in Crime - Internet Chapter. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, SinC Internet Chapter, SinC Guppies, Romance Writers of America - Kiss of Death, and American Medical Writers Association; she is the Dallas Meeting Coordinator for the Southwest Chapter of Mystery Writers of America.
Moving back home to Destiny, Texas isn't proving to be the quiet respite Hannah Fogarty Evans dreamed of when she left suburban bliss, and her cheating husband, in her rearview mirror.
Yes, she's realizing her dream of opening a mystery bookstore; Yes, she found Mr. Right, in the form of a six-foot-four handsome sheriff. But, when the bookstore attracts an elderly widow with a mystery of her own, Hannah may need more help than Carolyn Hart or Lonnie Cruse can provide.
Who's threatening a feeble old widow? And why would she come to the mystery bookstore owner for protection? As Hannah starts unraveling this tangled web she finds more than she bargained for: eccentric heirs, animal activists, and maybe even a few stray bullets. What a way to spoil a romance--good thing the Sheriff of Van Zandt County has a big gun...
You have to sit up and take notice when your Momma – a simple Pentecostal woman, born and bred in the piney woods of East Texas – predicts the death of a local beauty queen over a chicken fried steak dinner.
But when the evidence turns up and is pointing its finger (I won’t say which one) directly at your sister, well, you feel duty bound to protect your dear sibling's honor by finding the real killer. No matter that your sibling is the town floozy, and doesn’t appear to have the sense God gave a goat.
Now, mind you, I knew I had absolutely no business sticking my nose into a murder investigation--my resume boasting only a recent history of lawyer’s wife once removed, preceded by medical office manager. Not real impressive by any stretch of the imagination. Let alone the impetus to base a crime fighting career upon.
Did that stop me? Heck no. Once I got the bug under my bonnet, I began acting like I was Miss Marple on steroids.
Ruth, aforementioned sister, keeps telling me fate brought me back home to Destiny, Texas to save her spandex clad derriere from a life in the big house. I know differently though, it was a Ford Explorer.
"Who's threatening a feeble old widow? And why would she come to the mystery bookstore owner for protection? As Hannah starts unraveling this tangled web she finds more than she bargained for: eccentric heirs, animal activists, and maybe even a few stray bullets. What a way to spoil a romance--good thing the Sheriff of Van Zandt County has a big gun!"
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