Love Stinks

by Jeffrey Marks

Overview

In this prequel to the Malice Domestic Grant-winning title, The Scent of Murder, cosmetic manager Marissa Scott must contend with the arrival of Steve Douglas, a local man made good in Hollywood. Steve's in town to promote his new fragrance, Perchance, and his latest film. When Steve keels over at the store in front of hundreds of fans, the police step in to solve the murder. However, Marissa must contend with missing cases of Perchance, new employees, and a killer who thinks she might be getting too close to the answers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781481091541
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	12/04/2012
Series:	Marissa Scott Mystery
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.45(d)

About the Author

Jeffrey Marks is a long-time mystery fan and freelancer. After numerous mystery author profiles, he chose to chronicle the short but full life of mystery writer Craig Rice.

That biography (Who Was That Lady?) encouraged him to write mystery fiction. His works include Atomic Renaissance: Women Mystery Writers of the 1940s/1950s, and a biography of mystery author and critic Anthony Boucher entitled Anthony Boucher. It has been nominated for an Agatha and fittingly, won an Anthony. He is currently completing a biography of Erle Stanley Gardner.

He is the long-time moderator of MurderMustAdvertise, an on-line discussion group dedicated to book marketing and public relations. He is the author of Intent to Sell: Marketing the Genre Novel, the only how-to book for promoting genre fiction.

His work has won a number of awards including the Barnes and Noble Prize and he was nominated for a Maxwell award (DWAA), an Edgar (MWA), three Agathas (Malice Domestic), two Macavity awards, and three Anthony awards (Bouchercon).