Thanks for inviting me to be on your blog today, Pat. I
appreciate this opportunity to introduce, You Bet Your Life, the 1st in my new
series, The Willows Bend
Cozy Mysteries.
It was inspired by my late Aunt Julia, who was a real character
in her time. My mom’s, flaming-red-headed, younger sister was always fun to be
around because we never knew what she’d say. She could often be very funny
without realizing it. With her unusual belief system, she actually thought she
could do just about anything as long as she’d seen it done on television or in
a movie, providing there was a chance she could get away with it.
Julia was fond of horse racing and she’d bet large sums of
money every week on the horses. She appeared to be lucky at picking the winners,
because she always carried a huge wad of bills, wrapped in rubber bands, in her
purse along with her derringer for protection. She wasn’t a big fan of banks.
My mom had always been jealous of her younger sister’s “good
fortune” as she referred to it, and went so far as to try to try to switch
their birthdays at city hall, because she was convinced Julia was born under a
luckier astrological sign. But the folks at city hall wouldn’t fall for it.
Aunt Julia was none to happy about it either. There’s so much more I could say
about my aunt, and my mom, but I’ll put that information in future books in this
series.
It’s been fun appearing on your blog, Pat. And thank you so
much for the wonderful review of, You Bet Your Life. Now only 99
reviews to go, LOL!
Just thought I’d mention that You Bet Your Life is on
sale today through Tuesday on Amazon, in case anyone else might be
interested in reading it: https://www.amazon.com/You-Bet-Your-Life-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B07B5C2PSK/
As a marketing executive, Heather Stanton is used to
spinning anything negative that comes her way into gold, but now both her personal and professional lives
have hit a glitch, so she cuts her losses and boards the first train out of
town, leaving it all behind.
Heather never expects to run into her independent,
free-wheeling Aunt Julia in a speck on the map called Willows Bend. Nor does
she expect the turn her life takes when her aunt is suspected of murder.
Putting her own problems aside, Heather teams up with a
handsome ex-private investigator to clear her aunt’s name. But will Julia’s
innocence be questioned when the odds turn against her in a race to catch the
killer?
About the author:
Evelyn Cullet has been an author since high school when she
wrote short stories. She began her first novel while attending college later in
life and while working in the offices of a major soft drink company. Now, with
early retirement, she can finally write full- time. As a life-long mystery
buff, she was a former member of the Agatha Christie Society, and is a current
member of the National Chapter of Sisters In Crime. She writes mysteries with
warm romance and a little humor. When she’s not writing mysteries, reading them
or reviewing them, she hosts other authors and their work on her writer’s blog. www.evelyncullet.com/blog. She also plays the piano, is an amateur lapidary,
and an organic gardener.
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