A Dose of Nice: Parker Bell Humorous Mystery, #1

By Sharon E. Buck

NEW COVER! Every year there has been a Full Moon Crappie Festival in beautiful, power plant emissions-filled Po'thole, Florida. Coffee addict Parker Bell, bestselling novelist and Atlanta cyber security company owner, has been lured back to help her oldest friend during the hottest weekend of the year at the festival's Old Fashion Antique Show and Sale. The murder of Beer Barn owner Boby Derlicter occurs the first day Parker is back in Po'thole. Barbeque was his last meal. Local delicatessen owner Buddy Walker was found dead. A barbeque dinner was his last meal. Happy Jack Canaday, everyone's friend...it says so right on his business card...turns up dead. The only commonality? Barbeque dinners.

Homeland Security believes there may be a terrorist cell in Po'thole. Parker thinks they have their lost mind until her house is blown up, her car explodes in front of the donut shop, and three murders take place. Wherever Parker turns there's murder and mayhem involved along with a lot of humor. Who said death couldn't be funny?

The roving band of 5 hormonal, caffeine-and-sugar-infused Lady Gatorettes, die-hard University of Florida football fans, are wrecking havoc on River County and Parker's sanity. Are they the ones committing the murders or is it a sinister Middle Eastern plot to take over Po'thole and River County or is Joe D. Savannah, Parker's former boyfriend and owner of We Make Money, CPAs, conspiring to commit murder of Po'thole's youngest mayor, the local deli shop owner, and the ever-popular owner of a used car lot?

Parker's up to her eyeballs in craziness, not to mention her book agent Saffron Woo is convinced there's a bestseller to be written about Po'thole. Parker's appears to be the only sane person in Po'thole...and even that's debatable.

Murder, suspense, terrorism, conspiracy between the FBI and Homeland Security, and a bunch of hormonal crazy women on the loose, what more could you ask you for in A Dose of Nice?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Southern Chick Lit
• Release date: Apr 20, 2014
• ISBN: 9780966636383

Sharon E. Buck

True confession time. I have a wicked sense of humor in case you hadn’t noticed. My true desire and hope is that I made you laugh while reading this book. My mission is to change the world with laughter one book at a time.   I write the Florida Parker Bell humorous mystery series featuring the Lady Gatorettes. Florida crazy isn't just for tourists, the natives are unique in their own special way. Those zany folks who who live in northeast Florida can't quite make up their minds if they belong in Florida or south Georgia. They do believe in having a good time along with some mayhem, mischief, murder, and wackiness thrown in there. My laugh-out-loud books are clean with no cursing or graphic sex. Read them today!   I grew up in Palatka, Florida, traveled the Southeast extensively for a number of years, and currently reside in Jacksonville, Florida. I decided for my health and well-being it was better to live elsewhere once people in my hometown realized the Parker Bell Cozy Mystery series is loosely (very loosely, according to my attorney) based on them.   When I’m not doing my favorite thing…writing…I enjoy walking her little rescue dog, traveling, reading books, and cracking my friends up with funny stories and my sense of humor.