“You really think we’ll find ourselves a couple of rich husbands tonight?”
I laughed. “Just yesterday, you quoted from that book you love so much…something about rich men on the hunt for wives.”
Hazel Rose is the popular author of eight bestselling romance novels, but the lack of success for her ninth book has been met with a swift “goodbye” from her publisher. Her cousin and best friend Lucy Hooper listened intently to her distraught friend, but she was a bit more pragmatic. “Turn [it] into a mystery. Just add a dead body or two…” Ok, they both admit it’s not as easy as that, but they agree the six-week mystery writing course they’d plan to attend may provide the insights needed to save Hazel’s writing career.
The Confederate statues on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, came tumbling down. For this author, that meant a scene rewrite and a research trip. I didn’t expect the trip to end in the ER.
When the Hazel Rose Book Group Mystery series debuted two years ago, the setting was 2005 Richmond, Virginia, and the mystery book group experienced very real murder for the first time. Reforming themselves into a historical fiction travel book club to keep the violence at a more comfortable distance, we meet up with the book group eight years later in 2013.
Whew! Bouchercon is over! I put out a call to all my mystery sources for December releases. Enough authors responded to fill Santa's sack with plenty of good books.
