I'm pleased to have Heather Weidner here as the February Author of the month. Heather is one of the kindest people I've ever met. Not only is she a prolific author, she is always willing to lend a hand to uplift our cozy community. She is a true blessing to all of us!
Heather writes FOUR cozy mystery series, and I'm fairly certain she has more in the works. Today, we're going to talk about Murder Strikes a Chord, which is the first book in her Pearly Girl Mystery series. This book will be out on March 18th, but is up for preorder right now.
Here's what to expect:
Veronica Mars meets The Golden Girls as event planner Cassidy Jamison and her four sixty-year-old employees race to solve a rocker's murder before the curtains close on their show and their business.
When Cassidy inherited her late grandmother's event planning business, she also inherited her grandmother's friends- four women known around town as the Pearly Girls-as part-time employees. Now Cassidy barely has time to breathe between spending every waking hour trying to keep her business afloat and the Pearly Girls out of trouble and focused on event planning.
So when she lands a three-weekend event complete with a chart-topping band, she's thrilled. Until she and her chihuahua mix Elvis find the body of the Weathermen's lead singer in her venue's koi pond. With the help of the not-so-helpful Pearly Girls, Cassidy must stave off the bad publicity, navigate the prying questions of the local police department, and solve the murder before the media frenzy shutters her business for good, and takes one of the Pearly Girls with it.
I asked Heather if she would share her inspiration for this new series with us.
Thanks so much for letting me visit with your readers! I am so excited about my new series, The Pearly Girls Mysteries.
When I'm starting a new series, I always think about what kind of job I would like to have if I had taken a completely different career path, and that's how Cassidy ended up as an event planner in a small town in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Planning parties and decorating special events sounded like fun.
The stories feature Millennial Cassidy and how she interacts with her team of Boomers as she tries to navigate keeping her business afloat (which is not all flowers and bows) and single life in a small town. I love how the differences between the generations often turn into similarities. No matter what our situation, we're not as different as we often think we are. And the Pearly Girls are named for some special women in my life who taught me all kinds of life lessons, but most importantly, how to have fun.
Thank you for the insight into your new series, Heather! I love multi-generational stories like this and can't wait to dig in!
Readers - You can preorder Murder Strikes a Chord at your favorite retailers now. Go! Get your copy!
Here's a little more about Heather and where you can find her:
Through the years, Heather Weidner has been a cop's kid, technical writer, editor, college professor, software tester, and IT manager. She writes the Pearly Girls Mysteries, the Delanie Fitzgerald Mysteries, the Jules Keene Glamping Mysteries, and the Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mysteries.
Originally from Virginia Beach, Heather has been a mystery fan since Scooby-Doo and Nancy Drew. She lives in Central Virginia with her husband and a pair of Jack Russell terriers.
Pop over to Heather's website and blog to find all of her social media links!
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