Are you ready for Spring?

Yes, I know I'm jumping the gun. It's only February 28th and we've got a few more weeks to go until Spring officially arrives. But I'm eagerly anticipating the end of Winter. As Winters go, this hasn't been a bad one in Cincinnati. We've had cold weather, some snow and a lot of gray, gloomy days but, all things considered, I probably shouldn't complain. Many parts of the country have had far worse and we have too in past years. Still, I'll be happy to see it go. 

Although March is called "the cruelest month," my father thought  February was. Although it's a short month, he said, it seems to last forever. He always smiled as he flipped the calendar to March, eager for Spring to arrive so he could spend his days outside, working in the yard instead of cooped up in the house. 

In Desperate Deeds, Ann Malone Kern, the main character in my Malone mystery series, is thrilled to see Spring arrive.

"As Ann Kern starts her new business as an interior decorator, the temperatures have risen, tulips and daffodils are in bloom and there’s a feeling of endless possibilities in the air. She has no idea that her world is about to be turned upside down.

When Janis Riley, a woman for whom money is no object, contacts Ann to redecorate her house, she is elated. But the initial visit with her first client leaves her with mixed emotions. Why did Janis react so strangely to seeing a photo of Ann’s six-year-old son, Davey?

But Ann has bigger problems. Her husband, David, a recovering alcoholic, has lost both his mother and his job and Ann worries that he’ll start drinking again. To add to her concerns, their next-door-neighbor, Dorothy Baker, is severely depressed but Ann’s efforts to help her are rebuffed.

Ann is terrified when she wakes up the day before Easter to find Davey gone. Another child, Kelly Kramer, has been missing since December. Where are the children? And what, if anything, can Ann do to get her son back?"

If you'd like to step into Springtime and a mystery, Desperate Deeds is available in paper and eBook formats at:

http://tinyurl.com/k5uh5jm
 

Happy Reading!