I hope your Memorial Day weekend has begun with a blast but pray you'll take a few moments often throughout the holiday to remember what it is all about. Pray for those who've died defending and protecting our country and their loved one's.
I introduced you to today's guest in March when she shared treasures with us, but please welcome C. Hope Clark back as we get a peek into her novel, Dying on Edisto Beach.
A Callie Morgan and Carolina Slade crossover, standalone mystery!
When a renowned—and now dead—travel blogger washes ashore on the banks of Indigo Plantation, Edisto Beach Police Chief Callie Morgan agrees to head the investigation as a favor to the county sheriff, whose reasons are as questionable as the death itself. When death turns to murder and a watchdog from the county makes her investigation difficult, Callie reluctantly turns to Carolina Slade and Wayne Largo, vacationing agents with the Department of Agriculture.
Because poison is growing on this plantation and someone knows how to use it well.
SYNOPSIS
Dying
on Edisto – Book 5 in the Edisto Island Mystery Series
Visiting
Indigo Plantation during its grand opening week, Edisto Beach Police Chief
Callie Morgan finds herself faced with a corpse. A guest, no less, has stumbled
upon the body of a nefarious travel blogger along the edge of the Edisto River.
A guest who happens to do investigations with the Department of Agriculture and
comes with her own federal agent beau.
Big
money funded the plantation project, and Callie is discreetly asked by the
Charleston Sheriff himself to lead the investigation even though it is out of
her jurisdiction. . . the caveat being she’d have a Charleston detective at her
side, of course. At first she suspects the sheriff’s request is due to her past
as an acclaimed Boston detective, her investigative experiences surpassing
anyone else’s in the South Carolina Lowcountry, but she’s soon suspicious as to
the sheriff’s intentions as the detective seems to fight her at every turn. . .
and the case turns into a murder. Poison, no less. Hemlock at that.
Suddenly
the case takes a turn as the sheriff, most likely at the request of big money
and politics, no longer wants her on the case, but Callie’s come too far. The
higher-ups put the investigation into overdrive, hunting for someone to blame,
like the poor waitress caught in the middle of this blogger’s ulterior motives
to discredit the plantation.
Callie
knows little to nothing about hemlock. Now the Agriculture couple Callie
earlier discarded becomes necessary as she teams up with Carolina Slade and
Wayne Largo to prove not only how the blogger was killed (by hemlock growing on
the plantation) but by whom. . . and uncover an even bigger plot at play than
silencing a smear blogging campaign.
NOTE:
This is a crossover book. Dying on Edisto is the fifth in the Edisto series,
but we are bringing in the protagonist from the Carolina Slade Mysteries to
assist Chief Callie Morgan on Edisto Island. We’re excited about bringing the
two flavors of investigators together and introducing the readers of Slade to
Edisto, and vice versa.
TESTIMONIALS
Murder, corruption, and page-turning
intrigue are usually the elements that shine the brightest in mysteries like
Hope Clark’s latest Dying on Edisto. But it’s the characters that bring a vivid
literary element to Clark’s prose and create a strong emotional response to
their tangled lives. The scenic town of Edisto Beach is peopled with a
modern-day pirate claiming to be a descendent of Blackbeard, a degenerate
travel blogger, a yoga teacher who drives a baby blue vintage Benz convertible,
a mixed race waitress and her matriarchal grandmother, and a whole slew of
wealthy and crooked good ole boys. Leading the cast are two strong female
protagonists—a police chief and an investigator with the Department of
Agriculture. Did someone say poison? —Susan Cushman, author of Cherry Bomb and editor of
Southern Writers on Writing"In a plot as complicated as the numerous waterways that create Edisto Island in South Carolina, C. Hope Clark has combined the characters from her two series to solve the murder of a renowned travel blogger. The mystery requires all of their detective skills and blends the two mystery worlds in a page-turning standalone. The story opens with a floater and progresses with edge-of-your-seat action. Prepare to be absorbed by Clark's crisp writing and compelling storytelling. This is one you don't want to miss!"--- Carolyn Haines is the USA Today bestselling author of three mystery series. She is the author of over 80 books and has received numerous writing awards.
Hope Clark converges her sleuths, Carolina and Callie Jean, on Edisto Island for the finale, Dying on Edisto, concluding her two murder mystery series. Slews of fans always awaited these highly addictive and superbly penned novels - grabbing you from the first page and not letting go until the last. A pristine, sleeper sea island, two determined masters of law who butt heads, a mystery corpse from Atlantic waters, a few idiosyncrasies along the way - the absolute best cast and plot for an intense coastal thriller. ~Karen Carter, Owner, Edisto Bookstore
C. Hope Clark is the award-winning author of the Carolina Slade Mysteries and the Edisto Island Mysteries. During her career with the US Department of Agriculture, she met and married a federal agent-now a private investigator. She plots murder mysteries at their lakeside home in South Carolina, when she isn’t strolling Edisto Beach.
She founded FundsforWriters.com, selected by Writer’s Digest for its 101 Best Websites for Writers for 18 years. Her newsletter reaches 35,000 readers. www.fundsforwriters.com /
Find our more about her at www.chopeclark.com
Her latest release is Dying on Edisto, Book 5 of the Edisto Island Mysteries and can be purchased at Amazon or Barnes and Noble. Find out more about the series HERE.
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Until next time take care and God bless.
PamT
