Secret Lives and Private Eyes, by Heather Weidner. Mystery/Thriller/Suspense Release & ARC Review

 

Title: Secret Lives and Private Eyes
Author: Heather Weidner

Release Date: May 2016

Publisher: Koehler Books

Genre: Mystery/Thriller/Suspense

Business has been slow for Private Investigator Delanie Fitzgerald, but her luck seems to change when a tell-all author hires her to find rock star Johnny Velvet. Could the singer—whose career purportedly ended in a fiery crash almost thirty years ago—still be alive?

As if sifting through dead ends in a cold case isn’t bad enough, Delanie is hired by loud-mouth strip club owner Chaz Wellington Smith, III, to uncover information about the mayor’s secret life. When the mayor is murdered, Chaz becomes the key suspect, and Delanie must clear his name. She also has to figure out why a landscaper keeps popping up in her other investigation. Can the private investigator find the connection between the two cases before another murder—possibly her own—takes place?

Secret Lives and Private Eyes is a fast-paced mystery that will appeal to readers who like a strong, female sleuth with a knack for getting herself in and out of difficult, and sometimes humorous, situations.

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Delanie Fitzgerald is a private eye.  These new cases will be a nice change from cheating husbands.  She has a strip club owner with quite a few problems to solve,  and research for a biography of a dead rock star.  
Our heroine and her business partner are very good at their jobs,  even when the danger starts.  
The characters are a lot of fun.  A really good mystery to solve and plenty of action to keep us interested.  I look forward to following our heroine on some more adventures.  
I thoroughly enjoyed it. 

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Heather Weidner’s short stories appear in Virginia is for Mysteries, Virginia is for Mysteries Volume II, and 50 Shades of Cabernet. Currently, she is a member of Sisters in Crime, Sisters in Crime Central Virginia, Guppies, Lethal Ladies Write, and James River Writers. Secret Lives and Private Eyes is her debut novel. 

 Originally from Virginia Beach, Heather has been a mystery fan since Scooby Doo and Nancy Drew. She lives in Central Virginia with her husband and a pair of Jack Russell terriers. 

 Heather earned her BA in English from Virginia Wesleyan College and her MA in American literature from the University of Richmond. Through the years, she has been a technical writer, editor, college professor, software tester, and IT manager.

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