Weโre in the season of winter and I live in Minnesota, the Land of 10,000 Frozen
Lakes. Christmas 2014 is now part of our memory banks, but I know there are
people of all ages who were given a snow globe as a gift and are this very
minute picking them up, giving them a shaking, and watching the snow settle over
a wide variety of scenes.
From little on, I have been drawn to the seeming magic of snow globes. I loved
giving them as gifts for my children because they always appreciated them. Even
now, when I see one on display in a store, I canโt resist flipping it over then
back again to see how the scene looks in a snow fall.
When the opportunity arose to write a series set in a shop that specializes in
snow globes, it was a natural fit. The catch is that Camryn Brooks, the one
running Curio Finds, never planned to do anything like that in her lifetime. She
had a successful career as a senatorโs legislative affairs director in
Washington D.C., and thought sheโd be working there forever.
But a scandal changed her career path and she returned to her hometown of Brooks
Landing in a hurry. For how long, she had no clue. But it appears to be the best
place for the time being. Her parents need help running Curio Finds, and an
added bonus is Cami has a large family and many friends who love and support
her, no matter what the media had to say about her.
The cast of characters who are part of a small community in Minnesota often get
pulled from their day to day activities to deal with events that are anything
but ordinary. Alice โPinkyโ Nelson, Erin Vickerman, and Mark Weston are Camiโs
childhood friends who stayed in Brooks Landing and are glad Cami came back.
Pinky runs Brew Ha-Ha, a coffee shop adjoining Curio Finds.
When
SNOW
WAY OUT opens, Jerrell Powers, a man that had wreaked havoc in Brooks
Landing a few years before has returned to town. And Erin was one of his
victims. Cami and Pinky are getting ready for a snow globe making class that
evening, and theyโre also wondering what Erin will do if she runs into her
nemesis. What they have no way of knowing is the role Jerrell Powers will play
in the eveningโs events or how the night will end after the class is over.
This is a snippet from the back cover, โAfter the flurry of activity has ended
and everyone has gone off with their handmade snow globes, Cami spots on a shelf
a new globe left behind, featuring an odd tableauโa man sleeping on a park
bench. On her way home, she drifts through the town park and is shaken to come
upon the scene from the globeโa man sitting on a bench. But he isnโt sleepingโhe
has a knife in his back.โ
Iโd love to have you join me on this
Snow Globe Shop Mystery series
adventure, I hope you make the people of Brooks Landing and their relationships,
and all the things they get involved with, a part of your reading pleasure.
About SNOW WAY OUT
Curio shop manager Camryn Brooks thought sheโd seen every kind of snow
globeโuntil she saw one depicting a crime sceneโฆ
Ever since she was a child, Cami has loved the sparkling beauty of snow globes,
and now, she sells them. In fact, theyโre so popular, Cami and her friendโcoffee
shop owner Alice โPinkyโ Nelsonโare hosting a snow globe making class.
After the flurry of activity has ended and everyone has gone off with their own
handmade snow globes, Cami spots a new globe left behind on a shelf, featuring
an odd tableau โa man sleeping on a park bench.
On her way home, she drifts through the town park and is shaken to come upon the
scene from the globeโa man sitting on a bench. But he isnโt sleepingโhe has a
knife in his back. When the police arrive, itโs clear they consider Cami a
little flaky and possibly a suspect. After her friends also come under
suspicion, Cami starts plowing through clues to find the cold-blooded
backstabberโbefore someone else gets icedโฆ
Read Fresh Fiction's review of SNOW WAY OUT here.
About Christine Husom
Christine Husom lives in Minnesota with her family. She is a small business
owner and author of the Winnebago County mystery thriller series. The Noding
Field Mystery will be published in 2012. She holds an undergraduate degree in
business from Concordia University in St. Paul and a law enforcement certificate
from Metropolitan State University in St. Paul. She is a former corrections
officer, mental health practitioner, and deputy sheriff. Experience has taught
her that fact truly is usually stranger than fiction. She enjoys reading,
writing, family time, volunteer work, entertaining, gardening, and exercising.
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