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Kindle Nation Daily Mystery Readers Alert! Donna Huston Murray’s SCHOOL Of HARD KNOCKS (THE GINGER BARNES MAIN LINE MYSTERIES) – Now Just 99 Cents on Kindle!

5.0 stars – 3 Reviews
Text-to-Speech and Lending: Enabled

Here’s the set-up:

Quiet Beech Tree Lane has suddenly become a lightning rod for crime. First, Ginger Barnes’s friend is murdered by a home intruder. Thefts and threats and smashed mailboxes follow; but it’s the mugging of elderly eccentric Letty MacNair that compels Gin to dust off her deerstalker. If an impoverished old woman qualifies as a target, anybody could be next.

[Author’s note: The Letty character happens to be my favorite. Please let me know if you like her too.]

What Readers Are Saying

Murray’s heroine, the plucky impulsive Ginger Barnes, is a full-time wife and mom who slyly reconciles her son to his failure to make the track team, gives affordable wine-and-cheese parties, walks the family dog, plants impatiens by the dozen, and housecleans for the elderly neighborhood eccentric. In School of Hard Knocks, the never-neurotic ever-resourceful housewife deals with a rash of bludgeonings (one fatal), financial hanky-panky, a series of anonymous threats, and the mystery of her hubby’s inattentiveness. Familiar locales are well-observed and minor characters especially pungent.
Amazon Reviewer, 5 Stars

Great fun to read. I especially loved the next-door neighbor and her antics. She’s my favorite character, too. The ending doesn’t disappoint!
Amazon Reviewer, 5 Stars

About The Author

Donna Huston Murray and her alter-ego, Ginger Barnes, are almost identical. Both love people, have an earthy sense of humor, and like to think they can fix anything. You can bet that if Gin hangs a chandelier or wrecks a faucet, Murray has done it, too. Fortunately, Gin is “taller, smarter, and braver,” because she stumbles over dead bodies far more often than you might expect.

In addition to the seven Ginger Barnes Main Line mysteries originally published by St. Martin’s Press, Murray has written for MYSTERY SCENE MAGAZINE, READER’S DIGEST, ECHELON, and REDBOOK. Her work can also be found in the Edgar-award winning companion book, THE FINE ART OF MURDER, and the LETHAL LADIES I and II anthologies by Berkley. Her most recent title, LIE LIKE A RUG, received a 4-1/2 star review from ROMANTIC TIMES magazine.

Murray’s husband, Hench, is an educational consultant. They live outside of Philadelphia and have two adult children, Robynne, and Casey.

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