Kissing Fitz

by Debra Gaskill

Overview

WINNER 2018 SILVER FALCHION BEST SUSPENSE AWARD AT KILLER NASHVILLEA Saturday of ballistic therapy at the Fawcettville gun range turns bloody for PI Niccolo 'Fitz' Fitzhugh when local social worker and community theater star Anna Maria Ippolito is found murdered in her home. It's personal too-he's been casually dating Anna Maria following his disastrous break up with prosecutor Alicia Linnerman.The discovery of a strange coded journal at Anna Maria's home makes Fitz and Anna Maria's sister Carlotta wonder if she's living some sort of double life, one Carlotta wants to know about before the police get wind of it.A box of clothing and other strange items raises more concern, even as the mayor's wife wants Fitz to investigate her husband's suspected infidelity.When Fitz cracks the journal's code, the two cases converge in a way no one could in this Rust Belt Ohio town could imagine.This is the fourth in the Niccolo Fitzhugh detective series.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781976162008
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	09/06/2017
Series:	Fracktown Gumshoe , #4
Pages:	202
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.43(d)

About the Author

Debra Gaskill is the former managing editor of the Washington Court House (Ohio) Record Herald, which earned two Associated Press General Excellence awards during her tenure. She was an award-winning journalist for 20 years, writing for a number of Ohio newspapers covering the cops and courts beat, and the Associated Press, covering any stories thrown her way.

Gaskill brings her knowledge of newspapers to her Jubilant Falls series. The mysteries 'Barn Burner' (2009), 'The Major's Wife' (2010), 'Lethal Little Lies' (2013), 'Murder on the Lunatic Fringe' (2014) and 'Death of A High Maintenance Blonde' (2014) all center around crimes committed in the fictional small town Jubilant Falls, Ohio, and often center around the damage family secrets can do. 'The Major's Wife' received honorable mention in the 2011 Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards and 'Barn Burner' was a finalist for the Silver Falchion Award at Killer Nashville..

Her next series, featuring the private investigator Niccolo Fitzhugh, brings her cops and courts experience together in a mystery that "creates complex characters and places them in real settings" according to customer reviews. That series includes Call Fitz (2015), Holy Fitz (2016), Love Fitz (2016), and the 2018 Silver Falchion Award winner for Best Suspense, Kissing Fitz (2017).

Gaskill has an associates degree in liberal arts from Thomas Nelson Community College in Hampton, Va., a bachelor's degree in English and journalism from Wittenberg University and a master of fine arts in creative writing from Antioch University, Yellow Springs.

She and her husband Greg, a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, have two children and three grandchildren. They raise llamas and alpacas on their farm in Enon, Ohio.

Connect with her on her website, www.debragaskillnovels.com, as well as on Twitter and Facebook.