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Fast Track by John DeDakis

Fast Track is a Mystery/Suspense novel about a young, strong-minded woman's quest to find purpose in life as she unravels the mystery of her parents' deaths 25 years earlier when she was an infant. The setting is Southern Wisconsin; the backdrop is j  
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This was no mere illusion. Colin Chase Rand, pulled through a magical portal, landed in 1935 where the dust bowl and the Great Depression was destroying lives, and a serial killer was in their midst  
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Dana Mentink is a writer of the wild, wacky and wondrous.


Background Information

    Dana Mentink enjoys writing in many different capacities. Her three book mystery series, beginning with Trouble Up Finny’s Nose, debuted in 2008 with Heartsong Presents Mysteries. She also writes for Harlequin’s Love Inspired Suspense line. The first of these, Killer Cargo, came out in June, 2008. She enjoyed contributing to Tyndale’s Life Savors for Women and writing a traffic safety storybook for twenty local elementary schools. Dana spent her college years competing in speech and debate tournaments all around the country. Besides writing, she busies herself teaching Sunday school, taste testing for the National Food Lab and freelancing for a local newspaper, covering stories about everything from bees to burrowing owls. When she’s not working on inspirational suspense for Harlequin, or cozy mysteries for Barbour Books and she reviews cookbooks for the newspaper.    

Accomplishments

Awards
Pacific Northwest Writers Literary Contest, third place, inspirational fiction, 2008

Women on Writing Flash Fiction contest, Honorable Mention, 2007

Get Your Stiletto in the Door Contest finalist, 2005

Dark Oak Mystery Contest finalist, 2003

Publications
Sand Storm (coming, Sept. 2009, Harlequin)

Flashover (coming December, 2008, Harlequin)

Treasure Under Finny’s Nose (coming December, 2008, Barbour)

Fog Over Finny’s Nose (August, 2008, Barbour)

Killer Cargo (June, 2008, Harlequin)