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| Homecoming Homicides |
Genre Psycho Meets Miss Congeniality—Dark Romantic Suspense with
a Humorous Twist
Author Marilyn Baron
Book heat level: PG13
Professional crisis manager Philippa Tannenbaum is spokesperson
for the law enforcement task force charged with solving a high-profile case. She
never dreams her position as Homecoming Pageant Director and her second-place finish
in the previous year’s competition has placed her on a serial killer’s hit list.
Always a runner-up in life, she wants to finally come in first at finding the killer
targeting the current crop of beauties.
Her friend Luke Slaughter, a Graysville city cop, shows up at
Philippa’s office, assigned to partner with her in solving the case and to protect
her 24/7 for the duration. Unfortunately, he’s also the man she hooked up with for
a one-night stand when she broke up with her fiancé. Working with her is going to
be less than easy, for a number of reasons…
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Publisher The Wild Rose Press
Amazon http://amzn.com/B00I27AS2I.
After the exclusive Kindle release, the worldwide release date will be May 9, 2014.
Interview with Marilyn Baron
Why did you write this
book?
Some years ago, my daughter was a contestant in the Homecoming
Pageant at the University
of Florida. At the end of
the pageant, a seemingly innocent man—he was more of a big hulk of a boy—approached
each girl to get her autograph on his pageant booklet. That sparked my imagination
and was the inspiration for this story. I wondered what would have happened if he
were a serial killer? I went to college at the University
of Florida in Gainesville and I named my fictional town Graysville,
so I was very familiar with the setting.
What is your favorite
genre to read?
Romance and thriller/espionage novels.
What is your favorite
character from fiction (not including your own characters)?
In romance, Roarke from J.D. Robb’s In Death series or Jamie
Fraser in the Outlander series. In spy novels, Daniel Silva’s Gabriel Allon.
Do you enjoy films and/or
TV shows? Which are your favorites?
In addition to reading (I’m in two book clubs) I go to a lot
of movies and watch a lot of TV for relaxation. My all-time favorite movie is Casablanca. The TV shows I
watch include Downton Abbey, The Good Wife, NCIS, Blue Bloods,The Big Bang Theory,
Two Broke Girls and I’m looking forward to watching the next season of The Americans.
What are you working on
at the moment, and what are we likely to see from you in the coming months?
I’m working on Book Three of The Psychic Crystal Mystery series
called Murder on the Repositioning Cruise. I’ve just signed another contract with
The Wild Rose Press for a new women’s fiction called Stones, which finaled in the
GRW Unpublished Maggie Awards for Excellence in 2005 in the Single Title category,
formerly titled The Colonoscopy Club.
Please tell us about your
latest series.
Homecoming Homicides is Book Two in the Psychic Crystal Mystery
series. Book One, Sixth Sense, won the Maggie Award for Excellence in the Paranormal/Romance
category.
Here’s the blurb for Sixth
Sense:
Reluctant psychic Katherine Crystal, dubbed “Crystal Ball
Kate,” is thrust into the national spotlight when she accurately predicts the
death of a movie actor’s young son in a private plane crash. Besieged by requests
to use her powers to help others, she realizes why her parents had warned her never
to let anyone know of her visions.
By-the-book Atlanta
police detective Jack Hale harbors a deep-seated distrust of psychics and ignores
Katherine’s warnings when she calls to report her premonition. Jack is forced to
partner with Kate, who uses her eerie sensitivity to evil to help him catch a serial
killer in Sydney, Australia, but that’s only the beginning
of the story. Jack and Kate are drawn into the investigation of a mystery surrounding
Kate’s birth and find murder and romance among a secret society of psychics in the
quaint seaside spiritualist community of Casa
Spirito, Florida.
Murder on the Repositioning Cruise – Coming Soon
Former Atlanta
police detective Jack Hale and “Crystal Ball Kate” from Sixth Sense, are
back, this time with Kate’s mother, Psychic Juliette and the cocky sheriff in Homecoming
Homicides, for a suspenseful romp on the high seas.
Juliette Spencer and Sheriff Will Bradley are posing as husband
and wife on a two-week transatlantic cruise to catch an art thief, investigate a
murder and calm the fears of a superstitious crew. Juliette will be fine if Sheriff
Bradley’s amorous advances in close quarters don’t cause her to jump ship or throw
him overboard.
Author Bio
Marilyn is a public
relations consultant in Atlanta.
She’s a member of Marketing for Romance Writers, Romance Writers of America, and
Georgia Romance Writers (GRW) and the recipient of the GRW 2009 Chapter Service
Award. She writes humorous women’s fiction, romantic thrillers/suspense, historicals
and paranormal. She has won writing awards in Single Title, Suspense Romance and
Paranormal/Fantasy Romance. Marilyn blogs at Petit Fours and Hot Tamales
http://www.petitfoursandhottamales.com/. She and her sister, Sharon
Goldman, just released a play about Alzheimer’s called Memory Lane. You can find out more about Marilyn’s
books and short stories and listen to a medley of the music from Memory Lane on her Web
site at
www.marilynbaron.com or view it on YouTube at http://youtu.be/Hgi_mIdt5MA.
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