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Fitzgerald Writes
Multi-Media Pubications, Inc.
Category:
Mystery/Suspense
Publisher: Multi Media Publications, Inc.
ISBN-10: LIVERINGER
Type: Fiction
Pages: 300
Copyright: April 1, 2010
ISBN-13: 9781591463276
Price: $0.99 (eBook)
When Allie Graham inherits her aunt’s Cape Canaveral beach house and a bunch of money, she wants little more than time to mourn her aunt’s death and to lick her post-divorce wounds, but she hasn’t been back in town twenty-four hours before she stumbles on the body of a woman floating in the water at the Canaveral jetty. At first, it seems that the only thing that links the victim to Allie is her appearance. It is only as her police friends begin to connect the murder with a string of similar crimes up and down the coast of Florida that the other similarities begin to emerge. Three men enter Allie’s life. One is a childhood friend all grown up and turned cop. Another, the editor of the local paper. The third is a stranger who shows up on the beach the day the body is found. Allie is pretty sure one of them is the killer, and she begins to suspect she might be his next target. Summoning up courage that surprises even her, Allie begins trying to discover the truth. But when the bullets start flying, Allie doesn’t know which way to turn.
Lynda Fitzgerald is a critically acclaimed, multi-genre author, writing anything from romance to women's fiction to mystery. She currently lives and writes in Snellville, Georgia, a small town just east of Atlanta, but she hails from Central Florida, where she spent most of her formative years. Florida still holds a special place in her heart, as you’ll see evidenced in her novels.
Her first novel, If Truth Be Told, was set on Florida’s beautiful Space Coast, that area from Cape Canaveral to Sebastian Inlet. The Sunshine State LIVE series is also set in that area. The idea for this first novel, LIVE Ringer, was conceived as she was sitting on one of the huge boulders that form the jetty entrance to Port Canaveral. She was dangling her feet in the water and saw an object floating toward her. Her writer’s imagination went wild. She saw a fish floating belly up, tangled in seaweed. Except that it was an arm, and the seaweed was long blonde hair. She shivered, and not from the ocean breeze. No, it was really a fish and seaweed, but such is how mysteries are created.
There are currently 3 books in the LIVE series. Number four is coming out soon, along with a stand alone thriller, Winter Kill. Also check out her women’s fiction novels, Of Words & Music and An Irreconcilable Difference.
Lynda also teaches workshops and is a frequent speaker at writers’ conference and workshops. She studied creative writing at both Georgia Perimeter College and Emory University.
Lynda is an Active member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, the Atlanta Writers Club and the Florida Writers Association. Now Available in Paperback and eBook: Live Ringer is the first in a mystery series featuring reluctant investigative reporter Allie Grainger and her best friend, Sheryl Levine, a feisty Sheriff's deputy who is determined to protect Allie from herself. Sometimes she almost succeeds.
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Excerpt
Sheryl pulled off her cap and shook out her hair. Then she twisted it up again with one hand and put the hat back on, looking up at Allie. “You been sick? You’re skinny as a twig.”
“Fashionably slim, according to my ex-husband,” Allie said, sitting down beside her. She couldn’t quit looking at Sheryl. If anything, she was more gorgeous than Allie remembered, and the uniform did nothing to detract from it. She made her cop regalia look like haute couture.
“Any more fashionable and you’d be pushing up daisies,” Sheryl said, poking Allie in the arm. She hesitated. “Ex?”
"It’s a long story,” she added. “How about you? Did you ever marry Ernie?”
“Married and divorced.” She sighed. “I should have known he was too good to be true.”
“What happened?” Sheryl and Ernie had been an item for as long as Allie could remember.
“He changed his mind.” She shot Allie a look. “You?”
Allie almost smiled. “I changed his mind."
Sheryl shook her head. “Men are pond scum.”
Even though Allie agreed for the most part, she laughed. “Not all of them.”
“Name one,” she demanded.
She could only think of one off hand. “Joe Odum.”
Sheryl sat back a bit. “Well, maybe Joe’s okay.” She flung an arm around Allie’s shoulders. “I have to get back to work, but we really need to go out and get drunk.”
Allie smiled. “Name the time.”
Sheryl grinned back. “Tomorrow night? I’m working a double today because Sidney’s on leave.”
“Sidney’s a cop, too? I had Sidney pegged as the guy most likely to go to prison the day he turned eighteen.”
“He damn near did, but the sheriff took an interest in him. Almost killed him a couple of times from what I hear, but Sidney straightened up.”
She got to her feet, nudging the forgotten gun away with the toe of her boot. “What are you doing with a gun?”
Allie’s shook her head. “It's not mine. I found it in one of Aunt Lou’s purses.”
Sheryl’s eyebrows shot up to her hairline. “Lou with a gun? Any ideas why she thought she needed it? I mean, we’re not exactly in a high crime area here.”
“I have no idea. I wasn’t around much the last few years,” Allie added bitterly.
“Figured you’d be beating yourself up over that. You’re being a jerk. Stop it. We need to get caught up,” she said again, and she was gone.
Allie smiled. That was Sheryl. A woman of few words and lots of action.
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