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.
