Summary
Summary
30-year-old society matron Lola Woodby has survived her loveless marriage with an unholy mixture of highballs, detective novels, and chocolate layer cake, until, her husband dies suddenly, leaving her his fortune.or so Lola thought. As it turns out, all she inherits from Alfie is a big pile of debt. Pretty soon, Lola and her stalwart Swedish cook, Berta, are reduced to hiding out in the secret love nest Alfie kept in New York City. Charming, witty, often laugh-out-loud funny, Maia Chance's Discreet Retrieval Agency series introduces a sparkling new voice in crime fiction. MAIA CHANCE was a finalist for the 2004 Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award and is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington. She is writing her dissertation on nineteenth-century American literature.
Author Notes
Maia Chance is an American author, born in the late 1970's in Washington state. She began writing as a teenager and finished her first novel in her twenty's. She is working to complete her PhD dissertation in English Literature, focusing on 19th century New England writing. Her first novel was Snow White Red-handed. It was published in 2014, and is the first book in the Fairy Tale Fatal Mystery series. The next books in the series are Cinderella Six Feet Under, Beauty, Beast, and Belladonna, and Sleeping Beauty, Borrowed Time. Her other series include the Discreet Retrieval Agency Mystery, which has Come Hell or Highball, Teetotaled, and Gin and Panic. Her latest work is Bad Housekeeping, which is the first book the Agnes and Effie Mystery series. She wrote a standalone novel, The Trophy Wives of Alpenrose.
(Bowker Author Biography)