The Gossiping Gourmet: (A Murder in Marin Mystery - Book 1) (Murder in Marin Mysteries) (26 page)

RELEASE
DATE: DECEMBER 2014!

In Book 2 of
the MURDER IN MARIN Mysteries:

Like everyone
else, newspaper publisher, Rob Timmons, his childhood friend, Sheriff’s
Detective Eddie Austin, and their sidekick, Holly Cross, are baffled by the
disappearance of Marin County’s most recent celebrity resident, Willow
Adams—better known to the world as the super-model with her own signature
scent, 
Willow Wisp
.

When
Belvedere’s most eligible widower, billionaire William Adams, married Willow,
the local social 
grand
dame
s were in an uproar—one that only got worse when they suspected
Willow of lifting many of their most precious jewels.

But when the
woman they refer to as “the wicked wife” turns up dead, the real finger
pointing begins. 

Was Willow’s
murderer one of her burglary victims? Maybe one of her many former (and
current) lovers got tired of her half-truths. Or was it her cuckolded husband,
who learned only too late that his ultimate trophy wife had too many secrets of
her own?

Martin Brown
 is an author and journalist whose
articles on health and relationships have appeared in 
Redbook, Playboy,
 and 
Complete
Woman
 magazines.

Martin, a native of New York City, is a graduate of the New York
University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He began his career as a community
affairs writer with WCBS Radio. He also worked as the public affairs officer
for the New York City police association; and later in the same capacity for
the Atlanta and Georgia police associations. 

He began his work as a community news reporter in Atlanta
with 
Creative Loafing
. Later, in Marin County, he founded 
Signal 
Newspapers
published in Sausalito, Tiburon, and Belvedere, California. 

Today, he and his wife, novelist Josie Brown, live in the city
of San Francisco, where their grown children and granddog also
reside.  

The Gossiping Gourmet

A Murder in Marin Mystery –
Book

A Novel by Martin Brown

© 2014 Martin Brown

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This is a work of fiction.
All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some
well-known historical and public figures, are products of the author’s
imagination and are not to be construed as real. Where real-life historical or
public figures appear, the situations, incidents and dialogues concerning those
persons are entirely fictional and are not intended to depict actual events or
to change the entirely fictional nature of the work. In all other respects, any
resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.

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