Mary has been keeping her muse busy for years with a variety of genres: children’s picture books, poetry and short stories. This is her first novel. She lives in Reno, Nevada, with Marty, her husband of 49 years and her dog, an all-around American Canine (mutt) Lacy. She enjoys spending time with her grandkids, reading, and of course, writing.
Tangled In Life
A Lainey Kelso Mystery
by Mary M. Meckler
Tangled In Life
A Lainey Kelso Mystery
by Mary M. Meckler
Published Jan 31, 2017
283 Pages
Genre: FICTION / Romance / Contemporary
Book Details
Her Dog Finds Dead People; She Searches For Love
This murder-romance will keep you laughing, crying and rooting for the tough but tender-hearted Lainey Kelso—truck driver, cynic, and part detective who’s utterly torn between her independent, carefree lifestyle and the ups and downs of conflicting magnetism that comes through a possible life with Detective Boone McCraw. Lainey hurls head-first into a tangled whirlwind of murder, fear, intrigue, romance and complicated feelings that disrupt her calm, peaceful, single-woman, lonely truck-driving life.
Book Excerpt
He was lying face down, his arm splayed in directions that arms shouldn't go. She winced looking at him, whispering "Ow" under her breath. His short, spiked brown hair was specked with dried blood, but that wasn't what caught her attention. "What the--" His khaki pants were down around his feet, exposing a naked, bloody sun-burned butt. A trail of dark red ran from the left shoulder of his pale blue Polo shirt and across his back. A choir of flies swarmed around him, humming what she imagined was a gospel tune. "Hey, buddy," she nudged him with the toe of her boot. "You dead?"