Writes:DEADLY
SUMMER is a humorous southern romance mystery. Summer Butler returns to her
hometown in southern Alabama to star in a reality TV show as a PI, even though
her only experience is the amateur sleuth character she played on a hit TV show
when she was a teenager. Deadly Summer is the first book in Darling
Investigations, and releases January 9, 2018.
About: Denise Grover Swank is the New York Times, Wall
Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author. Her hobbies include
witty Facebook comments (in her own mind) and dancing in her kitchen with her
children (quite badly, if you believe her offspring). Hidden talents include the
gift of justification and the ability to drink massive amounts of caffeine and
still fall asleep within two minutes. Her lack of the sense of smell allows her
to perform many unspeakable tasks. She has six children and hasn't lost her
sanityβor so she leads you to believe.
What I'm looking from in my ideal reader match:
If you love to laugh and cry while reading the same book.
Find it hard to put a good book down and will sacrifice sleep to read.
You like to read on your phone any chance you can get.
You love complex characters.
You love to read snuggled under a blanket by a fire.
What to expect if we're compatible:
Stories that don't always go the way you think they will.
Ten years ago, Summer Butler was television's most popular teenage sleuth.
Since then, she's hitβwhat gossip sites just love to callβthe gutter. Nearly
bankrupt, betrayed, estranged from her greedy mother, and just about
unemployable, she's coaxed into that desperate haven for has-beens: reality TV.
Winging it as a faux PI, she'll solve off-the-cuff mysteries in her hometown of
Sweet Briar, Alabama. For added drama, there's police chief Luke Montgomery,
inconveniently Summer's first and only love.
It's when Summer stumbles upon a very real corpse that Darling Investigations
takes an unexpected twist. The growing list of suspects is a big draw to
viewers, but the reality is that Summer doesn't know whom she can trust. Someone
has written this killer new scene especially for her, and unless Summer gives
the role everything she's got, it could be her lastβ¦
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Denise
Grover Swank was born in Kansas City, Missouri and lived in the area until she
was nineteen. Then she became a nomadic gypsy, living in five cities, four
states and ten houses over the course of ten years before she moved back to her
roots. She speaks English and smattering of Spanish and Chinese, which she
learned through an intensive Nick Jr. immersion period. Her hobbies include
witty (in her own mind) Facebook comments and dancing in her kitchen with her
children (quite badly if you believe her offspring). Hidden talents include the
gift of justification and the ability to drink massive amounts of caffeine and
still fall asleep within two minutes. Her lack of the sense of smell allows her
to perform many unspeakable tasks. She has six children and hasn't lost her
sanity. Or so she leads you to believe.
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