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About Invisible Path While Tempe’s son, Blair is home from Christmas break, he and his roommate from college do a bit of snooping to find out about the para-military group who’ve been seen driving through town. When a young popular Indian is found dead near the recovery center on the reservation, Tempe is called in to help with the investigation. Another Native American but a newcomer to the rez, Jesus Running Bear, is the only suspect. A hidden pregnancy, a quest to find the Hairy Man, and a visit to the pseudo soldiers’ compound put Jesus and Tempe in jeopardy. You can purchase Invisible Path at Amazon Seven Reasons Why You should Read Invisible Path 1. If you’ve never read a Deputy Tempe Crabtree mystery, this is a good place to get acquainted with Tempe, her preacher husband, Hutch, and her son, Blair. In Invisible Path Blair is home for the Christmas holidays. Though this is the ninth in the series, every book is written as a stand-alone. 2. If you like mysteries with a Native Ame...

Have you ever dreamed of being immortalized in print? Well, here’s your chance! Award-winning author Marilyn Meredith is running a contest during her Lingering Spirit Virtual Book Tour , which runs from July 6th through July 30th. Marilyn will name a character in her next Rocky Bluff P.D. book after one reader who leaves the most comments at any of the blog stops during her virtual book tour. This book is currently scheduled to be released in 2012. Leave more than one comment and get your name in Marilyn’s next Rocky Bluff P.D. book! Follow along on Marilyn’s tour at Pump Up Your Book ! Buy a copy of Lingering Spirit at Amazon.com ABOUT THE BOOK: Nicole Ainsworth’s husband, Steve, has a premonition of his death and moves his family to a mountain community where he serves as a deputy sheriff. He is killed in the line of duty and his wife, Nicole, is left behind to struggle with the changes forced upon her life. While trying to cope with her grief, raise her two little girls, her husba...

At the Los Angeles Book Times Festival April 25 and 26 I had the pleasure of meeting one author in particular. Marilyn Meredith, http://marilynmerdith.blogspot.com author of No Sanctuary. One of the highlights of blogging about Hollywood stars and famous book authors is being able to meet them in person. Marilyn was signing books for all her fans and gave away an extra special gift for those who bought a book, it was, her first Tempe Crabtree novel, Deadly Omen. Marilyn shares with us her experiences at the book festival at The Real Hollywood blog . Want to find out more about these exciting characters from No Sanctuary? Click on the links below from the authors virtual book tour: Memories of a Simpler Time, http://valleygirlmusings.blogspot.com/2009/03/memories-of-simpler-time-interview-with.html Author creates blog for her novel, http://valleygirlmusings.blogspot.com/2009/03/author-f-m-meredith-creates-blog-for.html Thursday Thirteen with a Character from No Sanctuary, http://valle...

The U.S. Postal Service must think I am a rich woman with all the bills they continually deliver to my mailbox. It does become rather depressing to receive nothing but bills, but once a month I look forward to my writer’s magazines. Recently, an author’s book arrived in the mail. Of course, I had requested the book from the author so I could write a review, but wasn’t sure which day it would arrive. “No Sanctuary”, by author F.M. Meredith is the latest in the Rocky Bluff mystery series. Rocky Bluff is a fictional town in the California foothills with a comparable small town feel to that of Mayberry in the Andy Griffith television show. The town comes to life and so do the Rocky Bluff police officers and detective to solve the mystery of one woman’s murder that involves two churches, two ministers and two wives. Be sure to look for my review at The Real Hollywood during the author’s virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book Promotion . She will be hosted all week at The Real Hollywood...