Drawing Blood by Deirdre Verne – Guest Post + Giveaway

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drawing bloodDrawing Blood by Deirdre Verne
A Sketch in Crime Mystery #2

CeCe Prentice returns with her band of Dumpster-diving pals in this fast-paced mystery that puts the eco-friendly heroine back on top—of a pile of trash.

When Big Bob, manager of the town dump, goes missing, CeCe is worried about more than where she’ll score her next salvaged car. First at the scene when Bob’s body is recovered from under the weekly recycling haul, CeCe is quick to identify potential witnesses and provide crucial scene sketches. But when CeCe is uncharacteristically startled by an unidentified woman at Bob’s abandoned house, her artistic talents are challenged, and her drawings, much to her frustration, come up short.

With CeCe’s observational talents on the fritz, Detective Frank DeRosa, CeCe, and her network of Freegans are forced to recreate Big Bob’s life from the garbage up. The team is soon thrust into the underworld of recycling where what appears to be junk could actually be the clue that saves a life.

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My Fictional Boyfriend

My friends joke that every relationship should be able to sustain one celebrity indiscretion. This means you get one guilt-free, no consequence romp with your celebrity crush. I’d like to expand on this idea by including a no penalty affair with a literary character.

Please meet Charlie Knudsen, my literary indiscretion. He’s a fiction of my imagination and he exists purely for my entertainment. Charlie appears in Drawing Conclusions, and as far as I’m concerned, in every book I’ll ever write from this point on. I haven’t had a bad break-up in thirty years but Charlie could dump me like yesterday’s news and I’d still take him back. He’s irreverent, sarcastic, clever and just plain cool. The kind of cool that I dig. Oh yeah, and he can fix anything.

I thought I had written Charlie solely for my own indulgence. That is, until my agent read my first manuscript. Turns out, all she wanted to talk about was Charlie. Hey, back-off, I thought. He’s mine.
Now that Drawing Conclusions is hot off the press, Charlie Knudsen will be widely available to anyone who wants to get to know him. I guess it’s time I learned how to share.

About the Author

deidreDeirdre Verne (Lower Westchester, NY) is a mystery writer, college professor, and an active college blogger. Deirdre’s interest in green living inspired her to create an off-the-grid character who Dumpster dives her way through the “Sketch in Crime” mystery series. Verne’s second book, Drawing Blood, is available in February 2016. “A dysfunctional functional family to die for…[CeCe Prentice’s] second case is every bit as twisty and surprising.”-Kirkus Reviews.

A member of Sisters in Crime, Deirdre’s short stories appear in all three New York chapter anthologies – Murder New York Style, Murder New York Style: Fresh Slices and Family Matters. Visit her online at DeirdreVerne.com.

Author Links:
Webpage – http://www.deirdreverne.com
Blog – http://www.deirdreverne.com/blog/
Twitter – @deirdreverne
GoodReads – https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8276614.Deirdre_Verne

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