Dying
on Edisto
The
Edisto Island Mysteries Book 5
by
C. Hope Clark
Genre:
Cozy Mystery
One
death. Two detectives. And unexpected backup.
A
Callie Morgan and Carolina Slade crossover! (A standalone mystery)
When a renowned—and
now dead—travel blogger washes ashore on the banks of Indigo
Plantation, Police Chief Callie Morgan of Edisto Beach agrees to head
the investigation as a favor to the county sheriff, whose reasons are
as questionable as the death itself.
When death turns to
murder and a watchdog from the county makes her investigation
difficult, Callie reluctantly turns to Carolina Slade and Wayne
Largo, vacationing agents with the Department of Agriculture. Because
poison is growing on this plantation, and someone knows how to use it
well.
"Page-turning...[and]
edge-of-your-seat action...crisp writing and compelling storytelling.
This is one you don't want to miss!" —Carolyn Haines, USA
Today bestselling author
"Her beloved
protagonist, Callie, continues to delight readers as a strong, savvy,
and a wee-bit-snarky police chief.”—Julie Cantrell, NY
Times and USA Today bestselling author
C.
HOPE CLARK has a fascination with the mystery genre and is author of
the Carolina Slade Mystery Series as well as the Edisto Island
Mysteries, both set in her home state of South Carolina. In her
previous federal life, she performed administrative investigations
and married the agent she met on a bribery investigation. She enjoys
nothing more than editing her books on the back porch with him,
overlooking the lake, with bourbons in hand. She can be found either
on the banks of Lake Murray or Edisto Beach with one or two
dachshunds in her lap. Hope is also editor of the award-winning
FundsforWriters.com.
GUEST POST
Which of my novels could I imagine made into
a movie?
Personally, I see all my books as movies, as do
a great majority of my readers. I strive to make them visual in
setting, dialogue, and character. But if I had to choose one, it
would be Murder on Edisto.
As the first in the Edisto Island Mysteries, we
take a character at the peak of her career as a detective and tear
her world apart. The book opens in Boston, with Detective Callie
Morgan at the drug store with her teenage son, picking up
prescriptions. She’s struggling keeping things together with her
husband, a deputy US Marshall, because they lost a baby girl not long
ago, and today she would’ve been one year old. Then she receives a
call from work that the Russian kingpin she arrested was being
snatched away by the Feds for more lofty purposes, infuriating her.
Another call comes through, her husband, telling her simply, “Do
not come home.” She can’t get him back on the phone. Puzzled,
hurt that she never saw their relationship as bad as he sounded, she
heads home. . . then races faster, a chase through traffic as other
options start filling her thoughts. She arrives to find her house
ablaze, her husband shot in the head, his body left to burn.
After a year obsessing over her husband’s
murder, supposedly a mob hit, she loses her job and relocates back
home to South Carolina. All too soon she’s reminded of the conflict
with her small town political parents (her father is mayor), but her
parents see she is hurting . . . and relying too much on gin to get
through her day. Handed the keys to the Edisto Beach family cottage,
she’s told to move there and get her act straight. Only she arrives
to find her childhood mentor murdered. Murder. . . that never happens
on Edisto Beach.
This woman has lost it all, given up on law
enforcement, living most days in a bottle. But on Edisto Beach, the
six-man force handles little more than drunk and disorderly cases day
in and day out, and the chief of police, a doctor turned cop due to a
dark history of his own, slowly coaxes Callie back into
investigations. Balancing his training as both cop and physician, he
helps her, convincing her he needs her expertise. . . knowing that
she needs purpose.
Only someone has followed her to Edisto, and
he’s trying to make her appear she’s lost her mind. It’s a cat
and mouse game with action, drama, with a pace perfect for the silver
screen.
But all of the Edisto stories refuse to sit
still, taking readers on an inescapable ride through one mystery
after another. The most recent being Dying on Edisto when Callie’s
faced with running down the killer of a very distasteful travel
blogger who’d slid onto the island with the intend of blacklisting
the grand opening of B&B. Everybody’s a suspect except for two.
. . who happened to be federal agents with the department of
agriculture, which comes in handy since there’s poison involved,
and someone knows how to use it well.
Who would play Callie? Jennifer Lawrence
And who would play Slade? Reese Witherspoon
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