Miss Marple Lite--Kirkus Reviews
"Jane Stuart is a Jane Marple for the millennium."-Kensington Publishing
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from HANGING HANNAH by Evan Marshall.
THE NANNY'S SHOCKING SECRET LIFE...
The first in the Jane and Winky Suburban Sleuths series introduces Jane Stuart, a widowed young mother and New Jersey literary agent who has a knack for getting involved where she shouldn't and solving mysteries with her tortoiseshell cat Winky, who has a nose for trouble. In their first case, Jane and the intrepid Winky give readers the purr-fect opportunity to pussyfoot with crime...
The last thing a working mom like Jane needs is a call from her young son's school saying his nanny Marlene never arrived to pick him up. Now Jane's wondering what happened to pretty blonde Marlene, the daughter of an old friend she recently hired to work for her as a nanny on a trial basis. It looks as if the nineteen-year-old up and left without giving notice and no one else seems to know where she's gone. Her mother can't track her down. The police figure she's run away. Could the young nanny have met with foul play. Not one to let things go, Jane thinks she'd better start snooping around.
JANE AND WINKY SLEUTH TO FIND THE TRUTH
Juggling book deals, rival agents, and a rocky romance with a handsome author, Jane soon uncovers Marlene had a shocking secret life. There was an erotic video tape, a boyfriend with violent tendencies-and a police record-and a different flirtation with a second mystery man. As Jane finds out more and more about Marlene, Winky uncovers a critical clue that could reveal if the killer came in on little cat feet...and whether that same killer will strike again...
JANE AND WINKY SUBURBAN SLEUTHS ARE THE CAT'S MEOW
- MISSING MARLENE
- HANGING HANNAH
- STABBING STEPHANIE
- TOASTING TINA
- ICING IVY
- CRUSHING CRYSTAL
REVIEWS OF MISSING MARLENE
3.41 average rating, 115 ratings, 5 reviews, added by 222 people, 68 to-reads, 85% of people liked it.--Goodreads
***** Five Stars The nanny is missing and hardly no one cares. Starting reading this last night and couldn't put it down. It is one of the best mystery books that I have ever read. The book started out nice, put picked up steam. This story has everything. A missing nanny, murder, sex, friends, lovers and family. It is hard to tell too much about the story without giving away the twist of the ending that I never saw coming." T Toms, Amazon customer
***** Five Stars "A very fast and fun read." Lennie Alickman
"The Jane and Winky series is as cozy as a kitten - with tiny sharp claws."-Jill Churchill
"MISSING MARLENE is fast-paced fun. The characters are engaging and the twist at the end took me by surprise."-Laurien Berenson
"Devilishly well-paced, a cozy with a satisfying bite."-Candace Robb, author of the Owen Archer Mysteries
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Evan Marshall is president of The Evan Marshall Agency author of The Marshall Plan(R) For Novel Writing (Writer's Digest, 1998), an international bestseller on the technique of commercial novel writing. He is the author of 10 commercially published mysteries including Manhattan Mysteries and Jane and Winky Suburban Sleuths series, named "Miss Marple Lite" by Kirkus Reviews. His books appeal to fans of Janet Evanovich, Lilian Jackson Braun, Agatha Christie and Alexander McCall Smith. You can reach him at evan@evanmarshallagency.com.
