Sunday, April 14, 2013

Mystery of the Month, "Murder's Last Resort"



Welcome to the Sapphire Silver Pines Orlando Resort where guests are checking out--permanently. The tidy world of sophisticated dinners and turn-down treats turns topsy-turvy for Maya French, the manager's wife, when other Sapphire executives turn up as dead as a polished doorknob. Maya dodges bullets--literally--and police suspicion as she hunts for the killer. The fun beaches of Florida turn deadly with this atmospheric cozy. —Sally Carpenter, author of The Baffled Beatlemaniac Caper
 
“…smart, funny, tough and sparkles with insight. She has created one of the best heroines of mystery to come along in decades. The unstoppable, unsinkable, unpredictable Maya French is the bastard literary child of Agatha Christie and Lt. Colombo.” –Kinky Friedman 

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Marta Chausée is a Southern California author, poet, playwright and artist.  Women lead sequential lives and Marta is no exception. She has been many things-- junk mail envelope stuffer, foreign language teaching assistant, boutique owner, forensic document examiner, corporate wife, mother, mental health therapist and life coach.  She brings these experiences and her skewed take on life to her creative expression.

Her first full-length novel, Murder's Last Resort, available in paperback and Kindle on Amazon.com was a winner in the 2011 Dark Oak Mystery contest and her creative non-fiction and poetry have won various awards.  She has been published in Carnival Literary Magazine, Left Coast Literary Review, MoSAiC Literary Review, Internal Family Systems newsletter, Trauma Intervention Program newsletter and The Lowry News in Denver.

Marta is a wanderer with a long history of foolhardy adventures.  She has slept in the luggage rack of a train compartment from Gibraltar to Madrid, and once crossed the Sahara in a beat down, rusty old Jeep with three friends and fifteen crazed Moroccans. Three years ago, she explored the streets of Alexandria, alone and happy, for twelve hours.  These days, she takes long walks, longer bike rides and dances through her life.

13 comments:

  1. Marta, your books sound like winners, and I am intrigued by your past as a "wanderer with a long history of foolhardy adventures." Long may you continue to wander off that safe paths, through fiction and through life.

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    1. I'm sure you and I could swap some tall tales, John. Life is too dull without some risk, right?

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  2. Marta,
    "Murder's Last Resort" has me intrigued. I just downloaded it to my Kindle!

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    1. Oh boy! I hope you enjoy your adventures with Maya French. I'll be eager to see what you have to say about it. If you get a chance, I'm going to be shameless here and ask for a positive review on Amazon. :)

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  3. Thank you both for your kind comments. I hope you enjoy the book-- I just had my second formal book launch yesterday and it went very well. Quite a few of the attendees had already purchased the book and read it-- they reported they got a kick out of it.

    One thing I've learned from this is-- put out your very best product because you'll be reading from it a lot and you want to feel proud of it. Also, write something that bears endless repetition, as there will be plenty of that, too, at various readings. :)

    Thank you, Pat, for giving me this opportunity. It's very generous of you and I hope I earn my place on your blog.

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    1. Marta,
      Sounds like you've had a busy day. I hope you sold lots of books and continue to do so. So glad you could be my guest this week!

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    2. Thank you so much for inviting me to be your guest, Patricia. I hope your blog followers enjoyed the post.

      I can't seem to catch up with everything. I don't know what's wrong with me.

      We just had a pretty good sized earthquake. Maybe it will rattle my brain into better active mode!

      Sunny is in townI'll see her and the rest of the gang tomorrow at the Mt. Sac Writer's Weekend. Can't wait!

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  4. You have a lot of adventure in your soul. I wish I had half as much. : ) Can't wait to read the new book!
    Marja McGraw

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    1. You are so kind, Marja. Yes, I may be adventurous, but I know someone who is professional and super-organized.... ;)

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  5. Your novel sounds like a winner, Marta. Oh wait..it is a winner. LOL. I can't wait to read it. Love the story line.

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    1. Hey, that's great! You're funny, Evelyn. I hope you enjoy the book. If so, write me a positive review!!!

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  6. Glad to read about the book, Marta. I'll be buying it and reading it asap. Enjoy your new success and sell lots of books!

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    1. From your lips to God's ears, Eileen. Now you do the same, too!

      Marta

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