A Real Basket Case
ISBN 13: 9781594145476 or ISBN 10: 1594145474
A March, 2007, hardcover release from Five Star , an imprint of Gale/Cengage Learning.
ISBN-13: 978-1597226745 or ISBN-10: 1597226742
A January, 2008 large print release from Wheeler Publishing.
Nominated for the 2007 “Best First Novel” Agatha Award
The best friend of Claire Hanover, 46-year-old proprietor of a Colorado Springs gift basket business, arranges for a handsome young massage therapist to give Claire a massage. When he's shot and killed in her bedroom and police arrest her husband, Roger, for the crime, Claire must convince Roger she wasn't having an affair and, with advice from a PI friend, find the real killer before Roger loses his job and goes to trial. Claire confronts the victim's fiery ex-girlfriend, his drug-dealing cohorts, and the gym ladies he supplied with cocaine or seduced for money. She must extricate herself from under a drug dealer's bed while he seduces his girlfriend, from jail--charged with breaking and entering, from a drug boss's limousine while he berates her for "messin' in his business," and from her angry aerobics classmates when they discover she suspects them. She makes mistakes at every turn, but she perseveres. Will she find the real murderer before Roger loses his job and goes to trial? Can she convince her husband to come back to her? Or will the killer get to her first?
To buy the book in the Colorado Springs area, visit Book Sleuth in Old Colorado City, Poor Richard's Bookstore on Tejon, Beth Anne's Book Corner on North Circle, Black Cat Books in Manitou Springs, the Southgate Border's Bookstore or the Barnes & Noble Booksellers stores across from Chapel Hills Mall or Citadel Mall.
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