Today we welcome M. Glenda Rosen, author of Without a Head, a mystery available now from Level Best Books. She's doing a virtual book blast tour, which will take place on January 11 - January 15.
M. Glenda Rosen will be awarding a $30 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour. Please use the following link to place your comment:
http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/28e4345f3629/
Blurb
Jenna Preston is used to investigating cheating spouses, fraud,
and even a murder or two in her role as a private investigator. But she’s never
consulted on a case quite like the one at Darcy’s Salon in East Hampton. A
killer has struck and left behind a woman’s head in the upscale salon’s shampoo
sink.
As Jenna struggles to make sense of the what’s happened, she comes
up against entitled and badly behaved beach dwellers, greedy parties with
motives all their own, and the billion dollar beauty industry. With her loyal
dog Watson at her side, Jenna pieces together clues and tracks down a killer
who claims victims that are dying to be beautiful.
ExcerptSaturday, as always was an
exceptionally busy day, “in season” at Darcy’s Salon, which is why she had
gotten there so early. She always wanted the salon looking perfect, ready for
stylists and clients, who this day had appointments beginning at 7 am.
Located off the main avenue of this
posh resort at the East End of Long Island, less than ninety miles from
Manhattan, the salon was known for catering to the rich and famous, as well as
some of wanna-be customers, primping for weekend parties and fundraising events.
The salon was truly beautiful with
warm color tones and soft matching leather client chairs facing gold (well,
fake gold), trimmed mirrors. There was a reception area with the latest issues
of fashion magazines from Paris and Rome, and a few of the more popular Hampton
rags, like Dan’s Papers were spread out on a marble table, next to it a coffee
machine offering gourmet flavored coffee and teas
Most of the women who came to
Darcy’s Salon had plenty of money, some from their own success, although others
were arm candy for much older, wealthy men. Sometimes one of them would joke
(maybe not) that they were “Dying To Be Beautiful” like some of the famous
models and celebrities, many of who summered in The Hamptons.
“Jenna, you’ve seen how difficult and fussy
they can be, and their egos—they’re constantly seeking confirmation of how
beautiful they look. They want to come to a high-end salon, expecting to be
treated like royalty. And believe me, we do.”
Author bio and links
Marcia
Rosen (aka M. Glenda Rosen) is author of ten books including The Senior Sleuths
and Dying To Be Beautiful Mystery Series and The Gourmet Gangster, Mysteries
and Menus (with her son Jory Rosen). She is also author of The Woman’s Business
Therapist and award-winning My Memoir Workbook.
Marcia was owner of a successful national marketing and public relations
agency, received numerous awards for her work on behalf of business and
professional women and has given many presentations, now as Zoom Events, such
as: Encouraging the Writer Within You, Writing A Mystery...Not A Mystery, Book
Marketing with Zoom and Podcasts, Writing From Your Soul, Memoir Writing and
The Senior Sleuths & Dying To Be Beautiful Mysteries. Member of Sisters In
Crime, Southwest Writers, Central Coast Writers and Public Safety Writers
Association. Board Member, 2021, National Association of Independent Writers
and Editors.
Sample
of Scheduled Zoom Programs: The National Steinbeck Center (6 week program on
About Being an Author), Shelter Island Library, an hour marketing presentation.
Public Safety Writer's Association Encouraging the Writer Within You, Central
Coast Writers “About Being an Author,” Podcast Marketing for Southwest Writers,
Murder on The Beach bookstore, Memoir Writing Sessions, Shelter Island and
Westhampton Beach Library, “Writing Mysteries…Not A Mystery,” and other venues
and topics for 2021.
http://www.theseniorsleuths.com
http://www.creativebookconcepts.com
https://www.amazon.com/M.-Glenda-Rosen/e/B06W51M2YH
https://www.facebook.com/MarciaGRosen
https://twitter.com/WriterMysteries
https://www.instagram.com/mglendarosen/
https://www.pinterest.com/marciaglendarosen/
Buy
link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08Q4FWFKF/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0