Blurb:
When
Jenna decides to go to a friend’s wedding, she expects to dredge up old secrets
and old hurts, and she expects to see people from her past, but she doesn’t
expect to stumble on a dead body.
Jenna’s
friend is arrested. The wedding is cancelled. And Jenna’s tendency to stick her
nose where it shouldn’t be leads her into the path of the killer.
Set
in the serene mountains of North Carolina, Murder on Moonshine Hill is filled
with suspense, humor, and a quirky cast of supporting characters.
About the Author:
Joan C.
Curtis is an award-winning writer who has published seven books and
numerous stories. Readers compare her to
the great Southern writer, Fanny Flagg. “She writes characters and a story that
will stay with you.”
Her debut mystery/suspense novel, The Clock Strikes Midnight, won
the Royal Palm Literary Award in 2015. The e-Murderer:
Book 1 Jenna Scali Mysteries won the Gold from the Global EBook Awards
2016. Her newest release is Murder on
Moonshine Hill: Book 2 Jenna Scali Mysteries.
Joan has been an avid reader for as long as she can remember. She reads all kinds of books, including women’s
fiction, mysteries, biography, and nonfiction.
“I write about characters who remind me of myself at times and
my sister at times, but never fully so. My stories are told from the point of
view with of a woman with a destiny. Characters drive my writing and my
reading.”
Having grown up in the South with a mother from Westchester
County New York, Joan has a unique take on blending the Southern traditions
with the eye of a Northerner. She spent
most of her childhood in North Carolina and now resides in Athens, Georgia.
Review:
Murder
on Moonshine Hill is the second Jenna Scali novel Ms. Curtis has written, and I
admit I’m becoming a fan of Jenna’s. I like heroine’s with wry wit who stick
their noses in where they don’t belong, especially when it gets them into
trouble.
This
time, when Jenna gets an invitation to the wedding of her former childhood
friend, she decides to attend only after finding a note tucked into the
envelope pleading for help. When they were kids, Jenna had a crush on Marcy’s
older brother, Peter. But after Peter’s death in a horrible accident, Marcy not
only shut Jenna out, she completely shunned her. Her detective boyfriend’s out
of town at a training seminar, but her friend Quentin who is a British gay
history professor talks her into going with him as her escort. She can’t resist
taking him to the blue-blood Southern upscale destination wedding at a quaint
mountain inn. And when she stumbles upon a body in the woods and Marcy’s the
prime suspect, neither of them can resist investigating the crime.
Murder on Moonshine Hill was a bit slow getting
started. It took time for Jenna to get to the wedding and meet all of the
susp—guests. She already knew most of the bride’s family, but the groom’s side
were all new acquaintances, and there were twists and subplots running through
and between both sides of the bridal aisle. It seemed the only place there
could be any love lost was between the bride and groom. But even they weren’t
acting like a happy couple on the eve of their wedding.
So—who’s
body does Jenna stumble upon? And who did it? I’m not telling. You’ll have to
buy Murder on Moonshine Hill to find
out.
Author Website: http://joancurtis.com/
Heat Rating: PG-13
Length: 314 Pages
Digital Price: $5.99
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