Conversation Between Two Heroes

Hello out there, all you mystery lovers and lovers of heroes. First I'd like to thank Anna Kathryn for inviting me to appear on her blog.

My name is Joan K. Maze, and I'm going to talk about my cozy series involving my lead charactger, Mollie Fenwick. The first book in the series is Murder By Mistake, available from R
ed Rose Publishing. The second book, Murder For Kicks, is not yet out.

Mollie Fenwick is a thirty-something wdow who acquired psychic abilities upon her husband's death. This has led her to have visions, including that of a murder in her apartment (Murder By Mistake). In the second book, Murder For Kicks, she views a kidnapping and becomes a target of a murderer.

Unable to ignore these visions, Mollie begins chasing down clues, finds murderers, and lands in a considerable amount of hot water.

Two heroes from Murder By Mistake, who continue on in Murder For Kicks, are Detective Bradley Bartholomew and Natve American Artist/ex-special forces Jack Wolf. They discuss Mollie and what they should do about her.

"I suppose you have the perfect solution." Bartholomew glared at Wolf, his arms crossed. "You did a great job at the lake, letting her fall in the water and come close to drowning."

"Yeah right," Wolf said, a smirk on his face as he recalled the situation. Remembering the minnow caught in her bra, it took superhuman effort to keep from laughing out loud.

"I wasn't there. She went on her own."

Bartholomew relaxed his arms. "Yeah, she does that a lot."

Wolf pointed a finger at Bartholomew. "If you'd answered the phone when she called about her former neighbor, she wouldn't have gotten tied up and left in the woods. And don't forget, you called me for help."

Bartholomew rolled down Wolf's passenger side window, letting in a blast of snow and wind. Unable to see much beyond the vehicle next to Wolf's truck, he shut the window again.

"God knows what she's gotten into this time." Bartholomew checked his watch. "An hour late. She didn't give you any clue where she was going?"

Wolf activated the wipers and peered through the windshield. "I've answered that three-four times already." He shifted to face Bartholomew. "You could solve this real easy."

"How?"

"She's got the hots for you. A caveman tactic might work, or, the knight on a white horse deal."

"unh unh, Wolf. I'm sure that indepenent woman would fight tooth and nail. If she didn't do that, she'd start thinking about you before we got half a block away."

"What in hell does that mean?" Wolf asked.

"I've seen her look at you." Bartholomew blew out a breath. "You know what they say about two's company, three's a crowd."

"Unh unh, not any more." Wo,lf fiddled with the heat controls. "I think Jackson's in on this now."

"Shit," Bartholomew said, thinking of all the times he'd assigned Jackson to guard Mollie, among other things. "When he went to the zoo with her she ended up in the dolphin pool." He pointed atWolf. "I thought you were going to help her get rid of this psychic crap,."

Wolf shook his head. "If she'd ignore them, they'd lessen. That's the best I can do. You see her doing that?"

Bartholomew signed. "No." Then he whooped. "There she is. This time I'm gonna get out of her what she's been up to."

Wolf laughed. "Wanna bet?"

Coming soon: Murder For Kicks, book 2 in th Mollie Fenwick Mystery Series

What's next? I'm currently working on book 3 in the series, Murder By Spook, where Mollie becomes entangled with the CIA.

Joan K. Maze
writing as J. K. Maze
www.joanmaze.com

The big day is Thursday, March 26, 2009. That is when my first mystery, Murder By Mistake, will be released by Red Rose Publishing as an ebook. There are no words to describe how excited I feel about this, or of the wonderful treatment my submission and I received from Red Rose Publishing. They're wonderful to work with.

Murder By Mistake is the first in a cozy series featuring Mollie Fenwick, an artist and part-time bus driver who has recently acquired a psychic gift. She sees visions of things to come. She doesn't, however, think much of it as a gift, and before she can begin to figure out how to rid herself of the problem, she must both elude and find a killer - one who is targeting her.

To purchase this ebook, go to http://www.redrosepublishing.com/.

The month of March represents new ventures for me. My first book, Murder By Mistake, will be out as an ebook from Red Rose Publishing, and I've become active in promoting my book. Being a complete dud as a salesperson, I was certain I'd bomb. I didn't. I found it really easy to talk about the book and will do so until someone shuts me up.

Murder By Mistake has been termed both a cozy and a chicklit. What it is, is the first in a mystery series about a young widow who is both an artist and a part time bus driver. An added gift from her late husband is that of being psychic. She has visions of things to come and when she sees a murder in her apartment, it begins her first attempt at investigating. She knows she should tell the homicide cop what she saw, but would he believe it?

I'm not telling more. You'll have to buy the book.

I've finished the first draft of the second book in the series, Murder For Kicks, and have planned (mentally) the third, Murder By Spook.