THE SAND GARDEN is here!
Yep, my new Palm Springs mystery series starring female sleuth Dana Forsythe is officially launched with installment No. 1, THE SAND GARDEN, now available for purchase.
Dana's Forsythe is a tough-minded Palm Springs-based private investigator and former cop whose cases take her the full length of California's Coachella Valley--from the grace and wealth of Palm Springs in the north, to the despair and poverty of the Slab City squatter camp in the south, and to and the dying Salton Sea in between.
About THE SAND GARDEN:
PALM SPRINGS is an anomaly. A watering hole for the rich in the middle of a desert where real life has trouble just surviving. The Dana Forsythe Mysteries plants a foot in both worlds.
The dying Salton Sea is only an hour from the azure swimming pools and emerald golf courses of Palm Springs. The dystopian squatter camp known as Slab City is just down the road from the Salton. Cops and criminals manage to navigate the divide that private detective Dana Forsythe confronts when she takes on a murder investigation in this scorching landscape. Life gets even more complicated when the victim turns out to be her dead husbands mistress--and the mother of his illegitimate twins.
What's more, Dana'THE SAND GARDENs late husband was a cop, and also murdered.
The story begins when an outlaw biker drops the orphaned toddlers off on Danas patio in the middle of the night. She has no choice but to dig into a twisted truth shed rather avoid. When she finds herself entangled with a prominent Palm Springs plastic surgeon and his real-estate-queen wife, she learns that strange flowers flourish in a sand garden.
THE SAND GARDEN is a saga of redemption, retribution, and what happens when you embark on a relentless pursuit of truth.
But its not a saga of the young and glamorous, nor of a stone-faced Harry Bosch detecting in a dramatic vacuum--and its definitely not Miss Marple. Dana Forsythe is a woman of a certain age going to work every day to pay the mortgage. Her work happens to be digging into other peoples trouble--but this time the trouble turns out to be her own.
My friend and co-author Mary is a former Alaska resident--she now lives in Minnesota--who has penned several novels, including a couple of mysteries.
Enjoy the ride!
Quick link to THE SAND GARDEN on Amazon:
https://bit.ly/Sand-Garden
Dana's Forsythe is a tough-minded Palm Springs-based private investigator and former cop whose cases take her the full length of California's Coachella Valley--from the grace and wealth of Palm Springs in the north, to the despair and poverty of the Slab City squatter camp in the south, and to and the dying Salton Sea in between.
About THE SAND GARDEN:
PALM SPRINGS is an anomaly. A watering hole for the rich in the middle of a desert where real life has trouble just surviving. The Dana Forsythe Mysteries plants a foot in both worlds.
The dying Salton Sea is only an hour from the azure swimming pools and emerald golf courses of Palm Springs. The dystopian squatter camp known as Slab City is just down the road from the Salton. Cops and criminals manage to navigate the divide that private detective Dana Forsythe confronts when she takes on a murder investigation in this scorching landscape. Life gets even more complicated when the victim turns out to be her dead husbands mistress--and the mother of his illegitimate twins.
What's more, Dana'THE SAND GARDENs late husband was a cop, and also murdered.
The story begins when an outlaw biker drops the orphaned toddlers off on Danas patio in the middle of the night. She has no choice but to dig into a twisted truth shed rather avoid. When she finds herself entangled with a prominent Palm Springs plastic surgeon and his real-estate-queen wife, she learns that strange flowers flourish in a sand garden.
THE SAND GARDEN is a saga of redemption, retribution, and what happens when you embark on a relentless pursuit of truth.
But its not a saga of the young and glamorous, nor of a stone-faced Harry Bosch detecting in a dramatic vacuum--and its definitely not Miss Marple. Dana Forsythe is a woman of a certain age going to work every day to pay the mortgage. Her work happens to be digging into other peoples trouble--but this time the trouble turns out to be her own.
My friend and co-author Mary is a former Alaska resident--she now lives in Minnesota--who has penned several novels, including a couple of mysteries.
Enjoy the ride!
Quick link to THE SAND GARDEN on Amazon:
https://bit.ly/Sand-Garden
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