Welcome to some Southern mayhem and mystery!

 A Killer Read, the first in the Ashton Corners Book Club mysteries from Berkley Prime Crime is now available!

It's the first meeting of the Ashton Corners Mystery Readers and Cheese Straws Society and an intruder is later found dead in his car. When the owner of the mansion which is home to the book club meetings, Molly Mathews, becomes the prime suspect, Lizzie Turner, a reading specialist with the Ashton Corners, AL school board, and fellow book club members turn their talents to sleuthing.

Who knew the new police chief would be non other than Lizzie's old unrequited high school flame, Mark Dreyfus? Why is she finding chapters from an anonymous manuscript in her mailbox? And will cheese straws have to be served at every meeting from now on?

Lizzie is unrelenting in tracking down the killer, even to the point of putting herself in danger -- from the murderer and the oh-so-alluring police chief.

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A KILLER READ hit #2 on the Barnes & Noble Mystery Bestseller List, #28 on the overall list, first week available in bookstores!

READ & BURIED coming Dec., 2012