Here’s the set-up for Nancy Holzner’s PEACE, LOVE, AND MURDER – 10 straight rave reviews and just 99 cents on Kindle:
Finding a corpse in the trunk of your cab is a rotten way to start the day. For Bo Forrester, things go straight downhill from there. The cops are asking a hell of a lot of questions. The murder weapon turns up too close for comfort. And the attractive woman giving him the eye turns out to be Trudy Hauser, a cute-but-crazy deputy dead set on arresting him for murder.
Bo returned to Rhodes, an upstate New York college town, hoping to reconcile with his parents, gentle hippies who couldn’t accept his decision to join the Army at eighteen. Twenty years later, the commune where he grew up is a subdivision and his parents are long gone. Pondering his next move, Bo takes a job driving a cab. And he has no clue how the bullet-riddled body of art philanthropist Fred Davies ended up in the trunk.
Now, he can’t turn around without bumping into Trudy—it’s not her case, but that’s not slowing her down. The local cops, suspecting robbery as the motive, are right behind her. When Davies’ beautiful widow asks Bo for help, he can’t say no. Starting his own investigation, he plunges into a world of privilege, corruption, and high-stakes greed. A lot of people had reason to want Davies dead: a flirtatious art history professor with a taste for booze and men; her insanely jealous, ex-felon husband; the business partner with a secret addiction; and an avant-garde artist who proclaims that murder is the ultimate art form.
As the body count escalates, Bo must combine the skills he learned as a soldier with the values he grew up with on the commune to flush out a vicious murderer—if he manages to stay alive that long.
From the reviewers:
A most enjoyable mystery! The story elements are original and intriguing, combining hippies, communes, cab drivers and murder. It is an enjoyable story with interesting characters that are neither stereotypic nor predictable. The storyline keeps both the action and the suspense going, and it held my interest all the way through. — Glinda Harrison
I don’t want to give anything away about this mystery. Suffice it to say you are going to meet Bo Forrester and his world filled with quirky cabbie rides, dead bodies in the trunk, obsessed officers of the law, and that’s just to start with. The writing draws you in and keeps you there. – Peacedance
Wonderfully developed characters and a mystery that will keep you guessing. — B. Stogner
What grabbed me right off was the voice. What held me were the characters. Peace, Love & Murder is written from the lead character’s first-person perspective. The writing is great, and Bo is such a likeable character, it made for a fun read. — Keith Pyeatt
She began her career as a medievalist, then jumped off the tenure track to try some other things. Besides teaching English and philosophy, shes worked as a technical writer, freelance editor and instructional designer, college admissions counselor, and corporate trainer.
Nancy lives in upstate New York with her husband Steve, where they both work from home without getting on each others nerves. She enjoys visiting local wineries and listening obsessively to opera. There are still a lot of books she wants to read.
Visit her web site at www.nancyholzner.com.
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