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Mondo mega money is a murder magnet.Ten months ago Allie Harper - smart, feisty, too broke to get her car fixed - rescued Thomas Bennington III - a hot, blind, college professor - from a crosswalk in her dicey Cleveland neighborhood. When Allie saved Tom and his groceries from traffic, she unwittingly retrieved his winning $550 million MondoMegaJackpot ticket. The payout steered the two of them into a wild dash from romance to mayhem and multiple murders.Nothing's changed. Sure, Allie and Tom now reside in a rented nine-thousand-square-foot lakeside mansion with a sky-lit shower and breathtakingly high-thread-count sheets. True, Otis Johnson, Allie's deliverer from last summer's would-be-kidnapper, is now their live-in bodyguard and gourmet chef. Yes, Allie's dream of creating the T&A Detective Agency to solve "mysteries of the heart" by using Tom's money, Otis' P.I. credentials, and Allie's intrepid...intrepidness... now has its first case.That's where the real trouble kicks in.Lloyd Bunker's obsession with avoiding stoplights has run him and his '67 Pontiac GTO off the road, maybe for keeps. As they race to figure out what's happened to Lloyd, T&A recruits Allie's former nemesis, Officer Tony Valerio, plus her best friend and ex-landlady Margo and television reporter Lisa Cole, to help them follow a lethal trail of escalating crimes ranging from scrapping to pushing opioids to multiple murders. It's no longer just about Lloyd.An assault on the mansion's high-tech security system by a talented hacker signals the presence of a formidable adversary, one with big bucks and a ruthless plan to destroy the lucky couple. As the action ramps up, Allie and Tom are plunged into a high-speed race against danger and death.... It's Murder to the Metal.
About the Author
In second grade, Annie Hogsett had to count the number of eggs in pictures of birds' nests and began to realize she should run away from anything that involved math. Luckily, Annie was a very good reader.
Given time and nurturing, a very good reader can begin to at least recognize good writing. At first Annie thought writing books of her own would be boring because she believed she'd begin to write already knowing everything that would happen in the story and how her mysteries would would be solved. Fortunately, it never works out that way for her. Annie's characters always have ideas of their own!
Annie enjoyed a career in advertising and then spent more than ten years completing three novels before she wrote Too Lucky To Live, Book #1 of The Somebody's Bound to Wind Up Dead Mysteries. Her debut novel was published by Poisoned Pen Press on May 2, 2017. She says that as far as she's concerned, the secret to being a successful writer is to love the process of writing.
According to Annie Hogsett,"If you find joy in what you're doing, you're a success, and publication is icing on the cake." She also reports that realizing her dream of becoming a published author and finding readers of her own, has been a mountain of delicious icing.
