Grilled, Chilled and Killed by Lesley A. Diehl
This is the second in the Big Lake Mysteries
(the first was Dumpster Dying)
featuring Emily Rhodes, retired preschool teacher and bartender turned amateur
snoop.
It seems as if Emily is
destined to discover dead bodies. This
time she finds one of the contestants at the local barbeque cook-off dead and
covered in barbeque sauce in a beer cooler.
She should be used to stumbling onto corpses by now and the question of
who killed the guy should pique her curiosity, but Emily decides to let
Detective Lewis handle this one, at least until she figures his theory of who
did the deed is wrong, wrong, wrong.
Lewis’ denigration of Emily’s speculations is condescending enough to
stimulate her dormant snooping skills.
As the two of them go on their separate paths to find the killer, Lewis’
old partner, Toby the dirty, tobacco-spitting cop interferes in the
investigation leaving Lewis with the wrong man in jail. Killers, bootleggers,
barbeque and feral pigs—it’s a lethal game of hide and seek in the Florida
swamp.
Buy links:
Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/begadns
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Bio:
Lesley retired from her
life as a professor of psychology and reclaimed her country roots by moving to
a small cottage in the Butternut River Valley in upstate New York. In the winter she migrates to old Florida—cowboys,
scrub palmetto, and open fields of grazing cattle, a place where spurs still
jingle in the post office, and gators make golf a contact sport.
Back north, the shy ghost inhabiting the
cottage serves as her literary muse.
When not writing, she gardens, cooks and renovates the 1874 cottage with
the help of her husband, two cats, and, of course, Fred the ghost, who gives
artistic direction to their work.
She is
author of several short stories and several mystery series: the microbrewing
mystery series set in the Butternut Valley (A
Deadly Draught and Poisoned Pairings)
and a rural Florida series, Dumpster
Dying and Grilled, Killed and Chilled
(to be released late in 2012). She
recently signed a three-book deal with Camel Press for The Consignment Shop
Murders including A Secondhand Murder. For something more heavenly, try her mystery Angel Sleuth. Several of her short stories have been
published by Untreedreads including one (Murder with All the Trimmings) in the
original Thanksgiving anthology The
Killer Wore Cranberry and another (Mashed in the Potatoes) in the second
anthology The Killer Wore Cranberry: A
Second Helping. She invites readers
to visit her on her blog and website.
Website: www.lesleydiehl.com
and blog http://anotherdraught.blogspot.com
