Experience the bestselling Barbara Marr Murder Mystery Series with the first four novels: Take the Monkeys and Run, Citizen Insane, Silenced by the Yams, and Saturday Night Cleaver. Enjoy the antics of danger-prone soccer mom, Barbara Marr from the first time she finds monkeys swinging in the trees of her not-so-quiet suburban town of Rustic Woods.
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“…Each book is filled with fun, laughter, intriguing characters, murder, mayhem and hold your breath suspense.”

I have been writing plays and short stories for many years, some of which are published in short story collections. My first novel and first book in the Barbara Marr series, Take the Monkeys and Run, is a comedy-mystery. It was inspired, to some degree by a true monkey sighting in my own neighborhood.

Because I love to laugh as well as make other people laugh, I have great fun writing the character Barbara Marr, along with her friends and adversaries. When I set out to write this book, I knew I wanted to write something that readers would say, “Now that was FUN.”

The three other books in the Barbara Marr series are: Citizen Insane, Silenced by the Yams, and Saturday Night Cleaver. My latest release is a humorous paranormal romance, Keep Me Ghosted.

For more about Karen Cantwell and her work, please visit her website.