Stephen John

Fame and Fortune - 2025 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When Fortune, Ida Belle and Gertie stumble on a suspicious 'gold digger' in a roadside diner, the gossip flies faster than Gertie on a scooter-and that's before the body drops.

Fortune Redding, known to the locals in Sinful as Sandy Sue Morrow, former beauty queen and new local librarian, was just trying to keep her cover intact, have the occasional serving of banana pudding, and avoid arrest. But when Georgia Fame waltzes into their neck of the woods with a suitcase full of secrets and a smile sharp enough to cut glass, things go from suspicious to downright murderous.

With Carter sniffing around her business, Celia always underfoot, and Gertie devising yet another "distraction" involving dynamite, Fortune doesn't have time to play nice. Especially when the suspect was likely a serial killer she'd read about during her early days as a CIA operative.

Now, with Ida Belle and Gertie at her side (armed with baked goods and possibly things that go 'boom'), Fortune has to outwit a killer, outmaneuver the FBI, and outlast Celia's latest campaign to steal the spotlight. It's a whirlwind of secrets, sabotage, and high-stakes hijinks in the swampiest little town in Louisiana.

A throwback to Fortune's early days in Sinful, this mystery proves that, while some women are born to stir the pot-others bring the fire.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stephen John
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798231694655
• Artikelnr.: 75075895

Autorenporträt

About the Author

Steve is a retired business executive and freelance sports journalist who now spends his days chasing fictional criminals and real guitar strings. He writes cozy mysteries with a Miss Fortune twist, inspired by the delightfully chaotic world of Jana DeLeonwhere the suspects are slippery, the sidekicks are snarky, and the body count is strictly literary.

Before turning to mystery and mayhem, Steve interviewed thirty of the world's top poker players for Phil Hellmuth's book Deal Me In. He's also co-authored two Dane Maddock thrillers with David Wood (Devil's Face and Gray Ghost) and teamed up with Jesse Jacobson on Rainhorse, a novel that gallops between grit and grace.

When he's not writing, Steve performs with his two-piece acoustic band, Latitude 47, in and around the Seattle areaincluding senior homes, where the crowd knows every lyric and occasionally requests a plot twist. His guitar has been known to solve more story problems than his outline software, and his groupies (mostly retired librarians and one very enthusiastic bingo caller) are fiercely loyal.

Steve has been married for 49 yearsa record even his fictional detectives would envyand enjoys time with his two children and two grandchildren, who keep him young and occasionally ask him to turn the amp down.

He's currently working on his first Western novel, White Bone Prairie, where the horses are fast, the justice is frontier-style, and the moral compass spins like a poker chip in a hurricane.