Marilyn's Musings

While checking the edits for Deadly Feast , and getting reaquainted with this book, I realized what a big influence Agatha Christie had on me without my knowing it. Obviously this is a mystery, and when I began it, I thought it might be a Deputy Tempe Crabtree mystery, but when I got to the end, I knew it didn't fit the series. This is the second book that I did this with.  Because I liked it, I did some rewriting, changed the names of the characters and the setting. Still a small town, this one is in the gold country--much like Coulterville to be exact. Coulterville is right on the old '49 trail.  I really did have a good time writing this book--and rereading it. I hope you'll enjoy it too. Blurb: While investigating a murder, Leslie York, the resident deputy of the mining town of Copper Creek, finds herself stranded on the wrong side of the creek when it turns into a raging torrent. Others driven from their homes by the flood gather, but one of...