Blurb:
Millicent
Le Sueur is an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive bag lady in a rural Southern
town who witnesses the hit-and-run killing of a teenage girl. Or so she claims.
Some townsfolk believe she killed the girl and made up the story to cover her
crime. Battling her neuroses and psychoses, and counting her steps along the
way, she tracks a killer she hopes won’t count her as the next victim.
About the Author:
Margaret
Moseley was born in Oklahoma, reared in Texas and lived twenty years in
Arkansas. Her resulting combined regional accent gives a unique flavor to her
protagonist Bonita Faye’s trials and tribulations in her best-selling book and
Edgar finalist Bonita Faye. While the
reader knows from the “get-go” that Bonita Faye killed Billy Roy up there on
Cavanal Hill, it’s a toss-up as to how she will spend the next forty years.
Told in the first person, readers will laugh and gasp as Bonita Faye
deliberately weaves and molds her future with the book’s climax having her face
another murderous decision!
Moseley
writes very different mysteries, but whether her books involve a witness to a
murder—Milicent LeSueur—or follow the
sleuthing of Texas bookseller Honey Huckleberry—The Fourth Steven; Grinning In His Mashed Potatoes; A Little Traveling
Music, Please—her writing is creative, whimsical and entertaining. Moseley
currently lives in Texas with her writer/computer programmer husband Ron Burris
and their two indescribable rescued beagles, Matilda and Sadie.
Review:
There
but for the Grace of God and the Goddess… Being bi-polar and somewhat OCD, I’ve
been a type of homeless called “sofa-surfing.” That’s where you migrate from
one friend or family member’s home to the next. Milicent Le Seuer took her last name from a can of peas, walked out
of her back yard one day, accumulated a collection of color-coded bags, and
found herself a spot in an empty lot. Somehow, each month, money appears under
a rock on “her” lot, and she cleans the restrooms at the local KFC for free
food. Milicent prides herself on being a bag lady, and does not consider
herself homeless. She has her lot with two trees and the rock, she has her “job”
at KFC, last year the sheriff arranged for her to winter in a hospital, and
this year she plans to winter with a wealthy lady who lives in town. But
everything changes when she witnesses the hit and run death of a young girl,
and she believes the driver is after her.
Ms.
Moseley takes us on an incredible ride, as Milicent tries to remember just who
and what she saw that day, and then when she does figure out who did it, tries
to get people to believe her. Like so many mentally ill people, Milicent is
smarter than average, and somehow manages to stay one step ahead of the
murderer, who underestimates her. After all, she’s just a crazy bag lady.
This
is the second book I’ve read by Ms. Moseley, and she writes delightfully quirky
characters who make you laugh, cry, and gasp. Her books are impossible to put
down once you start reading them, so make sure you have plenty of time when you
pick up Milicent Le Seuer. And if your store carries that brand of peas, you’ll
never look at them the same way again!
Author Website: https://www.amazon.com/Margaret-Moseley/e/B000APUDKC
Warnings: None
Length: 196 Pages
Prices:
Print: $11.99
Digital: $4.99
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cover artists usually receive about 5%. When you buy a book from Amazon, Barnes
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author, editors and cover artists receive their cuts from what is left. So, if
a book costs $5.99 at E-Book Publisher.com and you buy from there, the author
will receive about $2.40-$2.99. If you buy the book at Amazon, the author will
receive about $1.70-$2.10.
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for Romance Writers, Net Galley, Authors who find me on Kindle lists, etc.).
That way, if there’s a glitch with your Kindle, the books are on your computer.
Some publishers send books in all digital formats. If my Kindle breaks and my
kids buy me a Nook, I won’t have to replace all of my books. If you have a
Kindle and your hubby has a Nook, you won’t have to buy separate copies, so
buying directly from the publisher can save you money.
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directory on your e-reader. You can move the file by highlighting it and
dragging it to the documents directory in you Kindle you want to move it to. Or
right click on it, and then left click copy or move. Or hit Control/C for copy,
Control/X for cut, and Control/V for paste.
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