In The Glass House, the first book in the PIP Inc. Mysteries series Pat Pirard, recently downsized Santa Cruz Law Librarian, needed to find a new job in a hurry. She printed business cards announcing she was Private Investigator Pat and crossed her fingers, hoping she could earn enough money working for attorneys as a PI to survive.
Pat’s first investigation went well, so she’s excited when she gets a call from an estate attorney who offers her a second job. The attorney tells Pat his client died at a funeral and he needs help sorting out who is entitled to inherit her estate.
Pat quickly discovers the dead woman’s past is as complicated as her estate. And when an autopsy indicates she had two deadly toxins in her body when she died, Pat’s new case becomes not only complicated, but dangerous.
Nancy Lynn Jarvis left the real estate profession after she started having so much fun writing the Regan McHenry Real Estate Mysteries series that she let her license lapse. She’s enjoyed writing about Regan and her husband, Tom, but decided it was time to do a new series.
PIP Inc. introduces protagonist downsized law librarian and not-quite-licensed Private Investigator Pat Pirard. “The Funeral Murder” is the second book in the series.
After earning a BA in behavioral science from San Jose State University, Nancy worked in the advertising department of the San Jose Mercury News. A move to Santa Cruz meant a new job as a librarian and later a stint as the business manager for Shakespeare/Santa Cruz at UCSC.
Currently she’s enjoying being a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and Santa Cruz Women of Mystery.
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Ten random facts about me.
I started writing because I was bored.
I’m six feet tall.
I’ve hung out with Sir Patrick Stewart.
I was reading Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple secretly at my grandmother’s house well before I was a teenager.
I hated Nancy Drew books. I even took a swipe at her in “Backyard Bones,” one of the books from my first series, Regan McHenry Real Estate Mysteries.
Real estate stories I tell in my Regan McHenry Real estate mysteries are true and have either happened to me or to fellow realtors.
I regularly get very strange ads on Facebook after researching some of the ways I use to kill people for my books.
I used two long-dead pets to be Dot the Dalmatian and Lord Peter Wimsey, my protagonist’s cat.
I believe you should try something radically different every five years. It’s a philosophy taught to me by Audrey Stanley Professor Emeritus when I worked at Shakespeare/Santa Cruz.
Nancy Lynn Jarvis is a pseudonym. When I’m her, I love public speaking. When I use my real name public speaking terrifies me.
How did I miss you? We Celtic women need to stick together. Thanks for having me on your blog.
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