Preferred Lies

by Doris Mortman

The second installment of THE COUNTRY CLUB CRIMES mysteries by NYT bestselling author Doris Mortman Flirting with each other, flirting with danger, a laugh here, a murder there — that’s life at the Hawk’s Nest Country Club. The chemistry between Jenna Welles and Detective Samson McPhail is undeniable. Together, they’ve solved a mystery, confronted a killer, and risked their lives — it’s just that murder keeps getting in the way. Jumpin’ Jack Janey is the man. A well-known real estate developer, his name is a constant in the gossip columns, emblazoned atop the hotels and co-ops built by his company, and fixed across a highly ambitious plan to construct the first green housing and entertainment complex in the region. But then his name appears on a toe tag in the morgue. His personality and questionable business practices have left no shortage of suspects, but as Detective McPhail dives deeper into the case, the primary suspect becomes the last person to visit the scene of the Major Jonah Welles — Jenna’s brother. Once more on opposite sides of a murder, McPhail must pile up evidence to prove Jonah’s guilt just as Jenna must fight to prove his innocence — which she’ll do no matter the cost. Fans of Barbara Delinsky and Janet Evanovich are sure to love PREFERRED LIES, the latest installment in the Country Club Crimes series by New York Times bestselling author Doris Mortman.

430 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 1, 2016

About the author

I was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico—before it was chic. My family moved to the East when I was three. I grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey and went to Skidmore College when it was still an all girl's school.

Being a lifelong wordsmith led me to such jobs as writing copy at ad agencies and doing sales promotions at Mademoiselle magazine. My first book, Circles, was published in 1984 as a paperback original and stayed on The New York Times Bestseller List for three months. Since then, I've published First Born, Rightfully Mine, The Wild Rose, True Colors, The Lucky Ones, Out of Nowhere, Before and Again, Shades of Red, and recently The Nest, the first in a series: Country Club Crimes. With both the hard and soft cover publications, I've resided on Bestseller Lists many times and have nearly twenty million books in print worldwide, with translations in fourteen languages.

I've been married for thirty-one years to a classic Type A personality who works hard, plays hard, sleeps fast, thinks deeply, and believes that commuting is a form of vehicular combat. I have two grown children, a daughter-in-law and two gorgeous grand girls!

My hobbies include golf, bridge and raising funds for breast cancer research.