Dead Ends (Main Street Mysteries Book 2)
by Sandra Balzo
Book Description: Main Street
Mysteries #2 A small lake
town tucked into the mountains of North Carolina, picturesque Sutherton charms
tourists and locals alike—though Sutherton may have more sinister secrets
hiding behind its gentle Southern comfort… Back home to
care for her help her mother with her main street restaurant, Annalise Griggs
is mortified to run into her former lover—and his family. Driven to distraction
worrying that small town mouths are wagging…tragedy strikes. And when similar “accident”
occurs, Annalise knows she must get to the bottom of these small town murders—lest
she become the next victim! “Recommend this series to fans of Margaret Maron’s Deborah
Knott novels, both for its strong female lead and its rural North Carolina
setting.”—Booklist “The well-drawn North Carolina
setting is integral not only to the plot but also perhaps to AnnaLise’s most
endearing quality—her abject terror of the area’s narrow mountain roads, full
of crazy switchbacks and heart-stopping overhangs.”—Publishers
Weekly About the Author:Sandra Balzo turned
to mystery writing after twenty years in corporate public relations, event
management and publicity in Wisconsin. Murder on the
Orient Espresso, her eighth Maggy Thorsen coffeehouse mystery
was just released, and Hit and Run, the third Main
Street Murder, will be out in early 2014. The books, set in the popular
vacation destination of North Carolina’s High Country, alternate with the Maggy
series. Nominated for both Anthony and Macavity awards, Balzo’s novels have received
starred reviews from Kirkus and Booklist, while being recommended to readers of
Janet Evanovich, Charlaine Harris, Mary Daheim, Joan Hess and Margaret Maron.In addition to
her books about coffee-maven Maggy Thorsen and displaced journalist AnnaLise
Griggs, Balzo writes short stories, two of which have been published in Ellery
Queen Mystery Magazine, winning the Macavity, Derringer and Robert L. Fish
awards. Balzo has
managed publicity for three Bouchercons (World Mystery Conventions), as well as
the International Association of Crime Writers, and has served as a national
board member of Mystery Writers of America. A native of southeastern Wisconsin,
Sandy currently splits her time between South Florida and the High Country of
North Carolina.
But, wherever
she is, she roots for the Green Bay Packers.
Mysteries #2 A small lake
town tucked into the mountains of North Carolina, picturesque Sutherton charms
tourists and locals alike—though Sutherton may have more sinister secrets
hiding behind its gentle Southern comfort… Back home to
care for her help her mother with her main street restaurant, Annalise Griggs
is mortified to run into her former lover—and his family. Driven to distraction
worrying that small town mouths are wagging…tragedy strikes. And when similar “accident”
occurs, Annalise knows she must get to the bottom of these small town murders—lest
she become the next victim! “Recommend this series to fans of Margaret Maron’s Deborah
Knott novels, both for its strong female lead and its rural North Carolina
setting.”—Booklist “The well-drawn North Carolina
setting is integral not only to the plot but also perhaps to AnnaLise’s most
endearing quality—her abject terror of the area’s narrow mountain roads, full
of crazy switchbacks and heart-stopping overhangs.”—Publishers
Weekly About the Author:Sandra Balzo turned
to mystery writing after twenty years in corporate public relations, event
management and publicity in Wisconsin. Murder on the
Orient Espresso, her eighth Maggy Thorsen coffeehouse mystery
was just released, and Hit and Run, the third Main
Street Murder, will be out in early 2014. The books, set in the popular
vacation destination of North Carolina’s High Country, alternate with the Maggy
series. Nominated for both Anthony and Macavity awards, Balzo’s novels have received
starred reviews from Kirkus and Booklist, while being recommended to readers of
Janet Evanovich, Charlaine Harris, Mary Daheim, Joan Hess and Margaret Maron.In addition to
her books about coffee-maven Maggy Thorsen and displaced journalist AnnaLise
Griggs, Balzo writes short stories, two of which have been published in Ellery
Queen Mystery Magazine, winning the Macavity, Derringer and Robert L. Fish
awards. Balzo has
managed publicity for three Bouchercons (World Mystery Conventions), as well as
the International Association of Crime Writers, and has served as a national
board member of Mystery Writers of America. A native of southeastern Wisconsin,
Sandy currently splits her time between South Florida and the High Country of
North Carolina.
But, wherever
she is, she roots for the Green Bay Packers.