FATALITY IN F by Alexia Gordon EXERPT, Lone Star Book Blog Tour
FATALITY IN F
by Alexia Gordon
Genre: Paranormal Cozy Mystery
Publisher: Henery Press
Date of Publication: February 26, 2019
Number of Pages: 234
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Fresh from solving her third mystery—and saving Dunmullach's firstborn males from a vengeful ghost—Gethsemane Brown's ready to relax and enjoy her summer. Her plans include nothing more dangerous than performing in the opening ceremony of the annual rose and garden show and cheering on Frankie Grennan, who's entered his hybrid rose into the competition.
But when a mysterious stalker starts leaving Frankie floral bouquets as coded messages, Gethsemane fears a copy-cat may be planning to recreate the still-unsolved murders of the infamous Flower Shop Killer. Then Frankie's main competitor in the rose show—and the reason his marriage failed—turns up dead in Frankie's rose garden. Frankie takes first prize in the category "prime suspect.”
So much for a relaxing summer.
As bodies start dropping like rose petals, Gethsemane must judge the other suspects and find the real killer. Or rose bushes won't be the only things dead-headed in Dunmullach.
PRAISE FOR THE GETHSEMANE BROWN MYSTERY SERIES:
Book 1, Murder in G Major
Winner of the 2017 Lefty Award for Best Debut Novel
2016 Agatha Award nominee for Best First Novel
Suspense magazine "Best of 2016" selection in Debut Novel category
Book 2, Death in D Minor
Runner-Up, 2017 Lone Star Bloggers' Choice Awards, Best Mystery
Book 3, Killing in C Sharp
Starred review, Publisher's Weekly, January 29, 2018
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From Fatality in F
Book 4 in the Gethsemane Brown Mystery Series
By Alexia Gordon
“A flower for your,” Gethsemane brushed a thread from his shoulder. Several more threads framed his sport jacket collar like eyelashes, “somewhat frayed lapel and a twenty Euro trip to the barber. If not romance, what’s the occasion?”
“It’s picture day.”
“Picture day? Not until the second week of school…”
“Pictures for the Dispatch,” Frankie said. “They’re doing a feature on the competition.”
The florist retrieved a single orange-red rose bud in a clamshell case from a cooler filled with a panoply of blooms and handed it to the math teacher. “We’re all pulling for you, Frankie. You’ll do the village proud.”
“From your lips to the judge’s ears.” Frankie slipped the bud into the buttonhole of his wrinkled left lapel.
“You’re not wearing this to a photo shoot?” Gethsemane asked. She pulled aside the jacket to reveal an ancient Newport News Jazz Festival t-shirt.
“What’s wrong with this?”
She tugged at the pocket of his wrinkled khakis and rephrased her question as a statement. “You are not wearing that to a photo shoot. Do you even own an iron?”
Frankie sniffed. “It’s a feature in the local paper about a garden show, not a fashion shoot for a men’s magazine. No one cares what I wear.”
“Never say that to a tailor’s granddaughter… The Dunmullach Dispatch may not be GQ or The Rake, but your pictures will still be seen by hundreds—” The clerk snickered. Gethsemane ignored the interruption. “—dozens of people and will last far longer than your roses.”
“The average rose bush lives for thirty-five years. Some have lived for hundreds…”
She cut him off. “The pictures will last longer than the rose and garden show, anyway. If you want people to believe you’re a champion, you need to look like a champion.”
“What do I look like now?”
“A math teacher on summer vacation.”
A writer since childhood, Alexia Gordon won her first writing prize in the 6th grade. She continued writing through college but put literary endeavors on hold to finish medical school and Family Medicine residency training. She established her medical career then returned to writing fiction. Raised in the southeast, schooled in the northeast, she relocated to the west where she completed Southern Methodist University’s Writer’s Path program. She admits Texas brisket is as good as Carolina pulled pork. She practices medicine in North Chicago, IL. She enjoys the symphony, art collecting, embroidery, and ghost stories.
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One winner receives a signed copy of Fatality in F and
a $30 Gift Card to David Austin Roses
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February 26-March 7, 2019
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2/28/19
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3/1/19
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Author Interview
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3/2/19
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3/3/19
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3/4/19
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3/5/19
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3/6/19
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3/6/19
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