If you think PTA meetings are boring, then you haven’t attended one in Barbara Marr’s neighborhood, where MURDER is on the agenda. Always one to stumble into trouble, Barb learns the hard way that a seemingly innocent yearbook scandal is actually part of a more sinister and deadly plot.

Books in the series: Take the Monkeys and Run (#1), Citizen Insane (#2), Silenced by the Yams (#3), and Saturday Night Cleaver (#4)

5-star praise for Citizen Insane:

Laugh out loud funny!
“Just the right mix of humor and suspense. Great characters with personalities much like the friends of all “soccer moms”. Love the references to real women life issues….”

She’s Insane Again
The PTA will never be the same once Barbara Marr attends a meeting. In this follow up to the riotous Take The Monkeys and Run, Barb once again gets herself into scrape after escalating scrape and comes out with a grin on her face and her sense of humor intact. And guess what? She does the same for the reader…”

About The Author

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.

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