First in New Series
Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Kensington (November 4, 2014)
ISBN-13: 978-1617733598
Synopsis
There’s no pussy-footing around murder . . .
It’s never too late to kick up your heels. Just ask Tina, Janice, Pat, Mary Louise, and Gini–aka the Happy Hoofers. After posting a video of their tap-dancing routine on the Internet, the leggy ladies find themselves booked to perform on a Russian river cruise up the Volga from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
But when murder cuts in, the five fabulous friends find it’s not so easy to tap their troubles away. A crew member has been killed, and a passenger is missing. With a killer on board, the Hoofers need to watch their step. But with a little fancy footwork, these soft-shoe sleuths may get a leg up on a killer who’s cruising for a bruising. . .
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About This Author
Mary McHugh graduated from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, with a B.A. in English Literature and studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. She is the author of nineteen nonfiction books and two novels. She was a contributing editor for Cosmopolitan, an articles editor at Woman’s World, Travel Holiday, and Bridal Guide, and has written articles for The New York Times, Good Housekeeping and Family Circle.
She loves to tap dance and to travel -two passions that inspired her to write the Happy Hoofers series.
She lives in the New York area. Visit her at
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I
want to take you aboard the Smirnov, the Russian cruise ship that my five
gorgeous dancer heroines sailed on from Moscow to St. Petersburg, solving a
couple of murders in between dances. In the first of the series, “Chorus Lines,
Caviar and Corpses,” published this November, my five Happy Hoofers.
Tina,
the magazine editor, Janice, the actress and director, Gini, the documentary
film maker, Pat, the family therapist, and Mary Louise, the housewife, were
crammed into narrow cabins with primitive showers, but they spent most of their
time in the lounges and on deck so they didn’t mind all that much.
My husband and I took this trip a couple of
years ago, so I wanted to give you an idea of what it was like for my cozy
mystery heroines. Here’s the ship my husband and I sailed on.
Our cabin was so small, my husband could stretch
his arms from one wall to the other.
And we bathed in what was laughingly called the
shower.
Like
my hoofers, I love to dance too, but nobody ever hired me to dance on a cruise
ship or a luxury train or a resort as they were in the series. This is a
picture of me (in the white skirt) learning a Russian dance with some of the
other passengers in the lounge.
We
had a fascinating trip on this ship, stopping off at little villages and
islands, marveling at the Hermitage and Catherine’s Palace in St. Petersburg,
exploring the subways and Red Square in Moscow, and I take my hoofers to all
these places too so you can see what they are like.
Because
it’s a cozy (the most fun to write) I gave you some recipes of delicious
Russian dishes like Chicken Kiev and Beef Stroganoff, teach you some Russian
phrases like “Menya zavut ….” (My name is) and how to ask for some more sour
cream in your borscht. There are dogs
and cats too. Did you know that Russians don’t kill their stray dogs but let
them roam through Moscow? Their philosophy is that it’s not the dogs’ fault
they are alone.
Please
join my dancers on this cruise and let me know if you had a good time.
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