Charlie is invited to a plush Santa Fe spa, a week-long spiritual/medical retreat with her friend Linda Casper. The massages and spa treatments sound great, but she doesn't realize that there is something darker going on at the mountain resort. Meanwhile, Drake has his own set of concerns. He's been asked to testify as an expert witness in a helicopter crash case and it's causing him more anxiety than any feat of flying ever did. It seems that Charlie and Drake are each on their own, but their two cases overlap and they find their lives in danger, in more ways than one. "Charlie is a fabulous amateur sleuth." --Midwest Book Review "Charlie is slick, appealing, and nobody's fool--just what readers want." --Booklist "This is a dandy. Don't miss it!" --Book Talk
From the AuthorI once attended a yoga class in which the instructor was a very prickly, un-centered person. Other than that, the story and setting in Gossip Can Be Murder is fictional. Originally contained as a subplot to an earlier Charlie book, I decided that I had too many threads for one book. I split them in two and created two separate books. Incidentally--if you are writing--I don't recommend doing it this way. It turned into a lot more work than simply plotting a solid story from the beginning!
As a side note, readers may notice the introduction of Samantha Sweet in this book. It's the first time she and Charlie cross paths--but not the last.
About the AuthorConnie Shelton is the author of eleven books and a novella in the Charlie Parker mystery series. An avid mystery reader all her life, she says it was inevitable that this would be the genre she would write. She has taught writing-both fiction and nonfiction-and is the creator of the Novel In A Weekend writing course. She currently resides in northern New Mexico.