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PUSHING UP DAISIES
Dirty Business Mystery #1
BY ROSEMARY HARRIS
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Thirtyish former television exec Paula Holliday relocates from New York City to sleepy Springfield, CT, determined to turn her passion for gardening into a new, less stressful career.
When an eccentric spinster dies, her landmark property is left to the local Historical Society, and Paula sees the garden’s restoration as a way to get her fledgling business off the ground. She’s prepared for everything, but not for the mummified baby she digs up her first day on the job. After a cursory investigation, the local police decide it’s an old secret, not a recent crime, so they drop the matter, but . . . Paula’s not so sure.
Casual snooping turns serious when someone is impaled on a garden tool and one of Paula’s helpers is arrested for the crime. Aided by the still-hot aging rocker who owns the local greasy spoon, a Shakespeare-quoting massage therapist, and a handsome Mexican laborer with a few secrets of his own, Paula unearths more dirt the suburban town has kept buried.
Rounding out the cast, and among the suspects, a randy Congressman and his gin-swigging mother, an amoral newspaper reporter, an octogenarian ladies’ man, childhood sweethearts reunited after 50 years, and a tattooed lady you wouldn’t want to mess with.
PRAISE FOR PUSHING UP DAISIES:
“A clever mystery full of garden lore, fast-paced and engaging, with a heroine who isn’t afraid to get down in the dirt.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“A charming debut.” —Library Journal
“[A] funny and entertaining first installment. May there be many more.”—Kingston Observer
“Quirky, original, and captivating…sure to please.”—Carolyn Hart, Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Award-winning author of the Death on Demand series
Pushing Up Daisies is an Anthony and Agatha Nominee for Best First Novel!
Named to Library Journal's Best First Fiction List 2008, Mystery Guild Selection, IMBA Bestseller, and Killer Book
PRAISE FOR THE BIG DIRT NAP:
“A charming debut.” —Library Journal
“[A] funny and entertaining first installment. May there be many more.”—Kingston Observer
“Quirky, original, and captivating…sure to please.”—Carolyn Hart, Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Award-winning author of the Death on Demand series
Pushing Up Daisies is an Anthony and Agatha Nominee for Best First Novel!
Named to Library Journal's Best First Fiction List 2008, Mystery Guild Selection, IMBA Bestseller, and Killer Book
THE BIG DIRT NAP
Dirty Business Mystery #2
BY ROSEMARY HARRIS
ABOUT THE BOOK:
An all-expenses paid weekend at an upstate hotel with her oldest friend seems like a good idea to Paula Holliday. After all, gardening season doesn’t really kick in for another few weeks and she and Lucy Cavanaugh haven’t had a chance to catch up since they worked together in the television business. Besides, the hotel is playing host to a rare corpse flower which is just about to bloom. But when Lucy doesn’t show up and a dead guy does, it seems like less of a good idea.
Add some Ukrainian mobsters, a pair of ladykilling brothers, a bankrupt businessmen and a group of college kids who know how to party, and Paula has her hands full trying to find her friend and figure out what it is that everyone seems to think she knows.
Add some Ukrainian mobsters, a pair of ladykilling brothers, a bankrupt businessmen and a group of college kids who know how to party, and Paula has her hands full trying to find her friend and figure out what it is that everyone seems to think she knows.
PRAISE FOR THE BIG DIRT NAP:
"a nifty puzzle that involves native American casinos, mysterious Russians and a stinky, slow-blooming flower." --Publishers Weekly
“An absolute must-read for cozy lovers. Readers of Susan Wittig Albert and Earlene Fowler will relish Rosemary Harris’s exceptionally engaging new voice. Harris’s delightfully witty A Dirty Business series is in full flower.” --Julia Spencer-Fleming, Edgar finalist and author of I Shall Not Want
"..a wild and funny ride with a cast of characters brought to life by Paula's salty comments..a lot of fun to read."
--Crimespree Magazine
--Crimespree Magazine
"
Another winner, with a protagonist who is a delight. In Paula (Harris) has created someone you'd like to have as a friend." --Midwest Book Review
"The irrepressible Paula Holliday is back for her second outing and remains as fresh as the daisies pushed up her first time out." --The Mystery Reader
AUTHOR INTERVIEW:
1. Thank you for agreeing to a few questions for this interview, Rosemary. I
know you are really busy with the tour of the new book, DEAD HEAD. Is there a personal photo, bio, or website you would like to share with us?
Well, here is my "official photograph" and website: http://www.rosemaryharris.com/
AUTHOR INTERVIEW:
1. Thank you for agreeing to a few questions for this interview, Rosemary. I
know you are really busy with the tour of the new book, DEAD HEAD. Is there a personal photo, bio, or website you would like to share with us? Well, here is my "official photograph" and website: http://www.rosemaryharris.com/
2. Where did you get the inspiration or idea for this book?
I was inspired to write Dead Head when I read an article about a woman in southern California who’d been arrested when it was discovered that she was actually a fugitive from the law. I was fascinated by the fact that someone could live a lie for so long.
3. How did the title of your book come about?
Gardeners will sometimes cut off the dying bloom of a flower to encourage new growth. It seemed to me that’s what my character did – she essentially killed her old identity for a second chance at life. I also loved the rock and roll definition.
4. Do you see yourself in your characters? Which characters are easiest or more difficult to write?
I see a little of myself in each of the characters…even the men and the bad ones. None of them is really easy to write, but sometimes a character will just stand up and tell you who he is. Lucy Cavanaugh and Babe Chinnery are fun characters to write. They can be a little wilder than Paula Holliday, my heroine.
5. What books would you say have made the biggest impression on you, especially starting out? What are you currently reading?
Hard to say, I’ve been reading mysteries for years. I particularly love PD James and Carl Hiaasen. Right now I’m reading The Queen of Patpong by Tim Hallinen.
6. What is the next or current book/project you are working on?
Slugfest, book four in my Dirty Business series, will be released April 2011 and I’m working on my next book already.
7. What is something about you that you would want people to know about you that we probably don’t know?
In this day and age with websites and Facebook people probably know more about me than they need to!
8. What is your best advice to anyone, including young people, who want to be writers?
Just do it.
GIVEAWAY
THANKS TO ROSEMARY HARRIS, I HAVE
A WONDERFUL GIVEAWAY JUST IN TIME
FOR HALLOWEEN! ALL THREE BOOKS
IN THE DIRTY BUSINESS MYSTERY
SERIES! THESE ARE THE FIRST TWO
IN THE SERIES YOU CAN WIN!
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GIVEAWAY ENDS AT
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GOOD LUCK!
THANKS TO ROSEMARY HARRIS, I HAVE
A WONDERFUL GIVEAWAY JUST IN TIME
FOR HALLOWEEN! ALL THREE BOOKS
IN THE DIRTY BUSINESS MYSTERY
SERIES! THESE ARE THE FIRST TWO
IN THE SERIES YOU CAN WIN!
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---INCLUDE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
IN CASE YOU WIN!
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COUNT AS MORE THAN ONE!
HOW TO ENTER:
+1 ENTRY: COMMENT ON ONE OF THE TWO NEW BOOKS DETAILED ABOVE AND TELL WHICH YOU WOULD PICK IF YOU HAD TO CHOOSE TO WIN ONLY ONE! (BUT YOU DON'T AS YOU CAN WIN ALL THREE)
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CHECK OUT DEAD HEAD: IF YOU MISSED MY REVIEW OF DEAD HEAD, GO HERE AND CHECK IT OUT AND ALSO ADD MORE ENTRIES SO YOU CAN WIN THIS GREAT SET OF DIRTY BUSINESS MYSTERY SERIES BOOKS!
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GOOD LUCK!
