Auntie Kate The Resale Expert

I had the bittersweet pleasure today of opening the last carton of my consignment shop murder mystery, The Picker Who Perished.

If you’d like an autographed copy, better order soon. In fact, buy a pack of 10 and use them as door prizes in your next shop event. Or resell them in your shop. Or frame them, under glass, for when I’m rich and famous.

What’s it about? Here’s my award-winning blurb for my TGtbT Consignment Shop Mystery:

The police ruled it an accident, but Wendy Sam believes her friend was murdered. A cryptic list aims her into Ilene’s…and Sarasota’s… well-hidden past.

How do you prove a murder when your only experience with deception is whether or not a dress has been freshly-washed before it was brought in?

With only a cryptic list to guide her, Wendy Sam Miller, a consignment shop owner in Sarasota, seeks to discover who would want Ilene dead. Did she fall—or was she pushed because she was pushing some powers-that-be in this Florida town?

Wendy Sam’s friends are all on their second lives. Orchid-growing ex-cops, a New Jersey widower once a world-class chef, a dancer turned antique picker, a lonely woman who grows herbs in the dry interior, everyone reinvents themselves under the Florida sky. The town, too, is reinventing itself, and not to everyone’s pleasure. Why are so many senior citizens having health problems that force them out of their homes? What’s with a car dealer-turned-minister, a genial Realtor, and an old photo of a young man with an older woman?

As Wendy Sam follows her friend’s clues, greed and unspoken secrets arise. She must learn to untangle what doesn’t seem good-enough reason for murder. As she hunts, two men seem to be courting the shopkeeper—or are they keeping her from the truth?

Read the first chapter. Then get a copy. It comes with recipes, even. It’ll be a collector’s item.