Hi, folks,
I just wanted to let all of you know that the new book in my Thousand Islands Doggy Inn Mysteries, The Case of the Valiant Vizsla, is available for pre-order on Amazon. The book will launch on February 25th, and I think you’re going to enjoy it.
Over the past month, I’ve gotten literally dozens of emails from readers asking when the new book would be available. I know you’ve had to wait a bit longer than usual for a new installment, but I think you’ll find it’s been worth the wait. After I finished the last book in the series, The Case of the Unfettered Utonagan, I sat down to begin the next book but soon realized I needed a break. I’d written the first 22 books in the series over the previous 25 months and, quite frankly, I was exhausted and needed to recharge my batteries over the holidays. My goal is to make each book in the series better than the previous one, and the last thing I wanted to do was to crank out the next installment just to meet some arbitrary deadline.
That would have disappointed all of you.
And it wouldn’t have done much for my mood either.
But I did put the time to good use working on some other projects.
The first is a new mystery series featuring Doc White from my Damaged Posse series. Doc finally left his espionage days behind and retired to the Caribbean. But he realizes that retirement comes with its own set of issues, primarily, for Doc, boredom. So he sets up shop as a private investigator and soon finds himself embroiled in a case that takes him back to his past as well as introduce him to some new challenges that promise an interesting future. The series will be a bit different from the Doggy Inn Mysteries but will contain many of the same elements. The series will be fast-paced and told primarily from Doc’s point of view, have a colorful cast of characters, and, if I have anything to do with it, funny. The first book in the series will launch sometime this summer.
The second project I worked on over my holiday ‘break’ is Volume 3 of The Whiskey Run Chronicles. Also scheduled for a summer launch, the third volume of Whiskey Run focuses on Milo Razner’s plans for further expansion of his bootlegging empire. All the characters are back, except for those who came to an untimely end in Volume 2, and I’m very happy with the direction it’s taking. For those of you who haven’t had a chance to read Volumes 1 and 2, I encourage you to take a look. While different from the Doggy Inn Mysteries, the series is also set in the Thousand Islands, but during Prohibition. Whiskey Run is my take on what it was like running booze across the Canadian border during that time and Milo is one of those ‘villains’ you can’t help rooting for.
Getting back to the Doggy Inn Mysteries, you can expect the final installments in the first pass through the alphabet to arrive regularly over the next four months. I’ve already started work on the next book, The Case of the Whimsical Weimaraner, and it will launch sometime in late March. And I know several of you are wondering if I’m going to continue the series after the Z book, The Case of the Zestful Zuchon, and my answer is a definite maybe. My main goal is to keep the series fresh and interesting and as long as I can do that, there’s a good chance I’ll keep it going.
But for now, let’s take a look at what Suzy and the gang are up to.
It’s Arts Festival time in Clay Bay and Suzy is very excited about meeting one of her favorite authors, Dianne Harman, who’s in town to participate in a couple of events. With her mother babysitting her daughter, Max, Suzy is looking forward to some rare time to herself out of the house. But when Dianne’s publisher dies in her sleep, all bets for an enjoyable time are off when it’s discovered that the woman was murdered. With a list of suspects that includes the author and her agent, the publisher’s personal assistant, the publishing house’s lead counsel and another writer who is signed by the dead publisher’s company, Suzy is immediately drawn into the situation and soon forced to defend her new friend’s reputation.
Making the case more difficult is the fact that the author and the publisher had switched hotel rooms earlier in the day of the murder, and the initial step is figuring out who the intended victim actually was. Working with the local, state and federal cops, Suzy is initially at a loss, but the smoke begins to clear when someone tries to run Dianne over in the middle of the street. The author’s life is saved by her dog, who in the process, gets hit by the car. Josie is forced to perform emergency surgery while Suzy and the cops try to piece together a complex puzzle that involves a lot of crazy behavior mingled with some very unclear motives. And before the last piece of the puzzle finally falls into place, Suzy finds herself in some hair-raising adventures as only she can.
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