Published by (Entangled Ignite)
Cozy Mystery – 320 Pages
Release Date: 5/27
Synopsis
Can a murder investigation keep these opposites from attracting?
Cara Rogers wants a fresh start after a slew of bad luck in Washington DC. Moving to Virginia to help her aunt run La Maison de Chien, a doggie spa, is just the peace of mind she needs. No stress. Just her aunt, the dogs, and wide-open country.
But when she finds Aunt Marian floating in the doggie swimming pool, the rest she so desperately needs flies out the window. The only witness to the death is Rex, an apricot maltipoo, and while he may not be able to talk, he’s communicating the only way he knows how—one paw at a time. And Rex’s clues lead to murder.Can Cara keep the doggie spa afloat, convince Middleburg homicide detective Cole Sampson that Aunt Marian’s death was no accident, and keep Rex from the killer’s clutches before they all end up as dead as dogs?
About This Author
Jacqueline Corcoran and Lane Stone have teamed up to write about some of their favorite topics – dogs, mysteries, and Middleburg, Virginia, which is known as the nation’s horse and hunt capital. MALTIPOOS ARE MURDER is the first in their doggie day spa romantic suspense series.
Jacqueline Corcoran lives in Arlington, Virginia with her rescue animals, husband, and two children. She holds a Ph.D. in social work and is on faculty at the Virginia Commonwealth University. She has published numerous professional academic articles and fourteen books in her field. Her mysteries include Maiming of the Shrew (Cozy Cat Press), A Month of Sundays (Whimsical Publications), Backlit (Etopia Press), and Memoir of Death (Etopia Press). See her website at http://www.jacquelinecorcoran.com/
Lane Stone and her husband, Larry Korb, divide their time between Sugar Hill, Georgia and Alexandria, Virginia. She’s the author of the Tiara Investigations Mystery series. When not writing, she’s usually playing golf. Her volunteer work includes raising money for women political candidates and conducting home visits for A Forever Home, a dog foster organization. She is on the Political Science Advisory Board for Georgia State University, and she serves on Sugar Hill’s 75th Anniversary Planning Committee. www.LaneStoneBooks.com
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Interview
How did
you come up with the title of your book?
In the
cozy genre, the titles can be really cute, so we were intent on finding titles
with alliteration and that also included a breed of dogs.
Who
designed the cover of your book?
Fiona
Jayde, and we love it.
How long
did it take you to write this book?
This book
has been a process. We originally wrote
the first three chapters as a cozy mystery.
This might have taken a month or so to write. Then we revised the chapters to be a cozy
mystery romance. This might have taken
another month or so. After we had a
contract with Entangled, Lane Stone wrote the first couple of drafts in about
three months, and then Jacqueline Corcoran did another draft in about a
month. Despite the way we’ve broken it
down here, this process stretched over a couple of years.
How do
you cope with writer’s block?
Jacqueline
is regularly afflicted with writer’s block and doesn’t cope with it well. Lane has more of a handle on this. She tries to prevent writer’s block by
writing almost every day. That way, the
characters “stay in her head,” telling her what trouble they want to get into
next. As a result, if she misses days
writing, she has to “find” the characters.
She is also a big outliner. For
the times when she’s not able to stay a step ahead of writer’s block, she seeks
out issues to research. For instance, in
book three of the series (Alsatians and Assassins) Cara is asked about stem
cell therapy for dogs. Some day soon,
Lane will be delving into that.
Do you
have a favorite line or quote in this book?
“John Kennedy was not the target.”
“Huh?”
“Jacqueline Kennedy was. And one, or a group, of those teenage girls was the shooter.”
I felt like I was going right over a cliff. Why had J.D.done
this to me? “Why?”
What
inspired you to write this book?
A
literary agent that was representing us originally suggested that there needed
to be a cozy mystery series on a doggie day spa series, so we decided to do
that. The concept has evolved over time
though to include romance.
Describe
the cover in 10 words or less.
The cover invites you to come on in!
If you
could sum your main character into five words, what would they be?
Focusing
on the main character at the start of the book, Smart, ambitious, frustrated,
guilt-ridden, caring.
If your
book was made into a TV series or Movie, which actors would you like to see
playing your characters?
For Cara, we would choose Lane’s niece,
actress, Amber Chaney. (Hunger Games, Devils’ Knot, Walking Dead.)
What are
you working on right now?
“Jacqui Lane” has three upcoming novels in the
Doggie Day Spa series, Dachsunds and Death, Assassins and Alsations and
The Schnauzer Sting.
Jacqueline is finishing a middle grade historical
paranormal inspired by Agatha Christie and writing a romantic suspense set in
Paris that involves a Surrealist artist.
Lane is writing a nonfiction book about nuns in Poland
who saved the lives of Jewish girls during the Holocaust and is completing the
third book in the Tiara Investigations series.
Who are your favorite characters?
Some of the supporting characters are, if
we do say so ourselves, very funny.
There’s royal watcher Emma;
the self-promoting, and paranoid Reverend McInerney; and my favorite, Cara’s
attorney, conspiracy theorist, Michael Pritchett.
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