August 15, 2017
Today is the day
I’ve been waiting all summer for—cover reveal of my new novel, Pigface and the Perfect Dog (an Oak
Grove Mystery). It’s my first full-length novel in over a year, and the first
time I have revisited the college town of Oak Grove since The Perfect Coed was published three years ago.
Kudos to Sherry Wachter for the great cover, which I think
matches the cover of The Perfect Coed in
style and color. I’ve itched to share it with you for weeks, but when you sign
up for a cover reveal, you’re pretty much bound to that date. So today’s reveal
can be found at
English
professor Susan Hogan and her partner, Jake Phillips, chief of campus security,
return in this cozy mystery with an edge. Susan thinks she’s about to meet her maker
when she confronts a rifle-carrying man, who looks like a pig, in a grocery
store. Jake investigates the body of a young college student, shot in the back
and found in an empty pasture. Aunt Jenny showers love on the new puppy a young
man from the grocery gave her, but she feels she must get rid of that heavy
collar.
Trouble in Oak Grove begins with open-carry
protestors in the grocery store and leads to a shooting, breaking and entering,
threats, a chase, an attempted kidnapping, and a clandestine trip to the woods
late at night. Will Susan Hogan land in trouble…or the hospital…again? Will
Susan and Jake survive this as a couple? Susan is still prickly but she learns
some lessons about life, love, and herself in this second Oak Grove Mystery.
Reader reaction to
The Perfect Coed thrilled me.
Susan is a prickly character, and she
doesn’t put up with any guff from her male colleagues, the cops, or even Jake.
Aunt Jenny is funny and a great cook. I have a feeling all these characters
will be returning for a sequel, so you’ll want to pick this one up now before
you get behind. You won’t regret it.
—Bill Crider, mystery author
Few mysteries open with a single paragraph
of eye-popping intrigue, but The Perfect
Coed is full of such moments and its introduction is apt warning that
readers will rapidly become involved in something far from mundane or
predictable: “Susan Hogan drove around Oak Grove, Texas for two days before she
realized there was a dead body in the trunk of her car. And it was another
three days before she knew that someone was trying to kill her.”
—D. Donovan, Senior eBook Reviewer, Midwest Book Review
Pigface, as I affectionately call this
new novel, is available for pre-order on Amazon, https://www.amazon.com/Pigface-Perfect-Dog-Mystery-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B073VSDKMH/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1502833947&sr=1-1&keywords=pigface+and+the+perfect+dog
in both paperback and ebook form. It will be available September 7.
For those in the Fort
Worth area, there’ll be a launch party September 21, 5:00 -7:00 p.m., at the
Wine Haus, 1628 Park Place Avenue. Cash bar, snacks will be offered, and fun
will definitely be had. Ya’ll come celebrate with me, please. Many of you will
get an evite soon; if you don’t hear by September 11, please let me know.
Questions, comments? Write me at j.alter@tcu.edu.
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