March 30, 2018

Death by Adverb by Rebecca M. Douglass


Also CHECK OUT the review for Rebecca Douglass' ABC picture book, A is for Alpine, on my mom's blog!

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Isn't this such a great title for a book?!

And I just love the intriguing cover.

Welcome, Rebecca!



JJ MacGregor doesn’t actually want to kill her annoying boss, but someone did, and now JJ needs to find the killer before more people end up dead.

Title: Death By Adverb (Pismawallops PTA Mysteries #3)
Author: Rebecca M. Douglass
Genre: Cozy mystery
Ebook: 85,000 words
Paperback: approx. 285 pages

Blurb:

JJ MacGregor’s having a rotten summer. Her arm’s in a cast, her jeans are too tight, and her son is spending his vacation with his dad. To make matters worse, her relationship with Police Chief Ron Karlson is up in the air and they haven’t spoken since June. Maybe the only good thing is that she’s got a writing job at last. Wilmont Charleston-Rutherford want her to help him with his memoirs, and JJ doesn’t care if he’s making it all up. All she has to do to make some much-needed money is keep her mouth shut and fix some of the worst prose she’s ever seen.

Of course, keeping her mouth shut isn’t JJ’s strong point. When she loses her temper so does her boss, and she’s back to job-hunting. That’s bad enough, but when Wilmont Charleston-Rutherford turns up dead, everyone remembers JJ fought with him. About the time the police are wondering if JJ might have tried to avenge the English language, her sewer backs up, and the dead man’s missing daughter shows up on her doorstep—only to disappear again before morning. JJ has her work cut out for to find the girl, the killer, and a new septic tank before anyone else dies—but at least the murder has her talking to Ron again.

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Excerpt:
 
“What the—hey, watch that thing!” I yelled as the man in white brought his saw toward my immobilized arm.

Nurse Chu patted my shoulder comfortingly, but she didn’t loosen her grip on the casted limb she held against the table.

“Don’t worry, Ms. MacGregor,” she said, “The doctor hardly ever slips and cuts off anyone’s arm.”

I swallowed hard, reminding myself that these were medical professionals. Despite appearances, they weren’t planning to torture me, cut off my arm, or damage me in any way. I was in the Pismawallops Clinic getting the cast off my broken arm at last, a happy event.

I cringed anyway as the saw started to cut the plaster. “Easy there,” I said, trying to sound like I was joking. “My insurance runs out in a couple of months, and I need to be healthy when that happens!” In fact, I was doing plenty of worrying about insurance. Once my coverage under my ex-husband’s policy ran out, I was going to be scrambling to make payments on even the cheapest insurance. It was worth it, to be free of the man I thought of as pond scum, but I still worried. I fixed my gaze on the educational poster on the wall in front of me, and resolutely ignored the whining saw.

Dr. Salisbury finished cutting the cast loose and peeled the remains away. I stopped staring at the poster enjoining me to wash my hands and avoid the flu, and looked at the thing lying on the table.

The exposed arm looked white and dead, and I wasn’t sure it was attached to me.



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Author Bio:

Rebecca Douglass was raised on an Island in Puget Sound only a little bigger than Pismawallops, and remembers well the special aspects of island life.  She now lives and writes in the San Francisco Bay Area, and can be found on-line at www.ninjalibrarian.com and on Facebook as The Ninja Librarian.  In addition to the Pismawallops PTA Mysteries (Death By Ice Cream and Death By Trombone), her books include three Ninja Librarian book, tall tales for all ages, and the humorous middle-grade fantasy Halitor the Hero.  Rebecca is a long-time volunteer and servant of her local schools, now due to retire (and seek now opportunities to serve).  She spends her free time bicycling, gardening, reading, and supporting her grown sons. For a vacation she likes nothing better than hiking, camping and backpacking.

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Thank you for visiting, Rebecca!


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22 comments:

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    1. Thanks! Hey, haven't I seen you somewhere before? :D

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  2. Hi Chyrs - yes congratulations to Rebecca - it's a great title ... cheers Hilary

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    1. The title came courtesy of someone--not sure who, now--who was making comments about my on-line cringing over peoples' grammar! I don't remember any of the context, but the title just had to be used!

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  3. Great cover and great blurb. Contrats Rebecca.

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  4. It sounds like a lot of fun. I love cozies. Congrats, Rebecca!

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  5. Congrats to Rebecca indeed. That is a great title.

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  6. Congratulations to Rebecca, I also loved the title most original.

    Yvonne.

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    1. Thanks Pat, Yvonne, and Liz! I do owe a favor to whoever it was gave me that title (it was one of those Facebook rants about grammar in social media...).

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  8. This book looks like fun! I can relate to phase one of divorced life that this MC is going through LOL. Nice to meet you Rebecca and learn more about your books. I'll be popping over to your author website. Thanks for hosting, Chrys. Happy Easter!

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  9. Hi Chrys! Happy Easter! Hello and congratulations, Rebecca. Best of luck on your book.

    Elsie

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  10. I love the title of that book. Congrats, Rebecca!

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    1. Thanks. It's probably the fate met by many a middle-school teacher, now that I think about it :D

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  11. Death by Adverb! That almost happened to me once.

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  12. At first I thought it was a writing craft book, y'know, never use an adverb and all that trollop. What an imaginative title! For all of her books. Congrats Rebecca!

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  13. Congrats Rebecca! Love the titles!

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  14. Congratulations, Rebecca! I love the cover of this book. Sounds like a fun mystery.

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