On this anything but typical Monday morning Jenna Scali, who works part-time for a shrink, opens an email that depicts the brutal death of a young girl. On that same day the police uncover a dead coed two blocks from Jenna’s house. The e-murderer’s description creepily echos the death described in the newspapers. When Jenna receives other emails, she takes what she knows to the police and thus begins her journey in the path of the e-murderer. Her curious nature impels her from e-messages to dead coeds to a ring of prostitutes. With the help of her quirky friends, Jenna learns that she’s more than a conduit for the killer. She’s his target. New secrets unfold, and finally her love life takes a tumble when the true killer emerges. THE E-MURDERER is a race to find a psychotic killer before he kills again. This new mystery series with a young female sleuth promises to keep you glued to your seat until the last page.
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Excerpt 4 from e-Murderer
I snagged the only available parking space in front of the Five Points Drug
Store, which also served as a post office.
The door opened with a loud swish. Our neighborhood druggist hollered at me from the other side of the counter.
“Hiya, Jenna. Whatcha been up to?”
“School, work. You know, Artie, the usual exciting stuff.”
I headed for the greeting cards to purchase one for Starr. After opening several, I selected one that read: At your age, calories no longer count. Inside was a picture of a gray-haired grandma, smeared from head to toe in birthday cake.
“This heat is awful. Hopefully we’ll get more rain this week,” Artie said.
I put the card on the counter along with the mail from the office. “I had enough rain last night to keep me a month.”
He wiped his glasses. “Yeah, that was quite a gully-washer, but what we need is a slow steady rain or my grass is gonna dry up and disappear. How’s the neighborhood shrink? Still treating you right?”
“The best.”
“Mrs. Bingham was in here yesterday. She’s quite a busy lady. My wife says
the Binghams never eat supper together anymore, what with her working at night and all. People say her PR business is doing real well even though—”
“Dr. Bingham never complains,” I cut in, and put a few bills on the counter
next to the mail.
“Nope, you’d not catch me complaining about eating overcooked meatloaf
night after night if my wife looked like Mrs. Bingham. That’d make it worth the trouble.” He posted the mail and handed me my change with a leer he quickly changed to a half-smile. “She’s quite a lovely little thing, eh?”
Jealousy rose inside me. I bit my lip. My dislike for Dr. Bingham’s wife
probably had everything to do with the fact that she was as Artie put it, “a lovely little thing.” At no more than five-two, Beth Bingham looked more like a child than a forty-year-old woman. When I’d first met her, my petty self decided her luscious blond hair had to be dyed. No one had hair that yellow unless they were two years old.
“You’re a dirty old man, Artie.” I pocketed my change, clutched the card to my chest, and left.
About the author:
Joan is an award-winning writer who has published 6 books and numerous stories. Readers compare her to the great Southern writer, Fanny Flagg. “She writes characters and a story that will stay with you.” Her debut mystery/suspense novel, The Clock Strikes Midnight, won the silver medal for fiction/suspense in the Global eBook Awards for 2015 and is a finalist for the Royal Palm Literary Award. The e-Murderer won first place in the Malice
Domestic Grants competition for new writers. Joan has been an avid reader for as long as she can remember. She reads all kinds of books, including women’s fiction, mysteries, biography, and nonfiction. Mystery/suspense with a psychological twist is exactly the kind of book Joan loves to read. "I write about characters who remind me of myself at times and my sister at times, but never fully so. My stories are told from a woman's point of view with a destiny. Characters drive my writing and my reading." Having grown up in the South with a mother from Westchester County New York, Joan has a unique take on blending the Southern traditions with the eye of a Northerner. She spent most of her childhood in North Carolina and now resides in Athens, Georgia.
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No, that was never one of my ambitions.
ReplyDeleteHey, Thanks for stopping by the tour. Hope to see you at other stops and maybe you'll be the winner!
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure Joan!
ReplyDeleteSleuthing could be fun. A bit scary though.
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