Murder in the Crooked Eye Brewery (Marcie Rayner Series #1)

by J.C. Eaton

Overview

Still kicking herself in the pants for ever getting married in the first place, twenty-something crime statistician Marcie Rayner does a turnaround. She divorces her philandering husband and trades her desk job in St. Paul, Minnesota, for a temporary role as an investigative assistant in New Ulm.

Never expecting her first case to come from her mother in Florida, Marcie finds herself ensconced in a full-blown murder investigation. The victim, forty-five-year-old microbrewery owner, Billy Hazlitt, is found shot to death on the floor of the Crooked Eye Brewery's tank room in the nearby hamlet of Biscay.

And while Biscay doesn't seem like the place where murder motives abound, its quirky residents, including two spinster sisters and the employees of the local diner, offer more obstacles than help. Marcie is convinced one of them is the killer. As she digs deeper into the case, she learns the victim may not be the nice guy everyone thought he was. Worse yet, the killer may be gunning for her as well.

Book one in the Marcie Rayner Mystery Series

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161933527
Publisher:	Camel Press
Publication date:	08/01/2018
Series:	Marcie Rayner Series , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	989,738
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

J.C. Eaton is the pen name of husband and wife writing team Ann I. Goldfarb and James E. Clapp. A former teacher and middle school principal from upstate New York, Ann always had a passion for writing. As a sideline to her career in education, Ann wrote for a number of trade journals before turning her attention to mysteries. She got her feet wet writing YA time travel novels and then joined forces with her husband, James Clapp. With a background in construction, a degree in business and a successful tour of duty with the U.S. Navy, James never envisioned himself writing cozy mysteries along with his wife, Ann I. Goldfarb. In fact, the only writing he did was for informational brochures and workshop material for the winery industry where he worked as a tasting room manager in his home state of New York. When he and his wife left the Snow Belt for the Arizona desert, he was hit with the writing bug. The couple resides with their four-legged friends in Sun City West, Arizona, where sunshine doesn’t need to be shoveled. Visit jceatonauthor.com and timetravelmysteries.com for more information.

Editorial Reviews

"More satisfying than a stein full of ale on a sweltering summer day, Murder in the Crooked Eye Brewery is an absolutely delectable read. I loved hanging out with neophyte PI Marcie Rayner while she hunted down suspects, sifted out the red herrings, and fended off her interfering mother. With more twists and turns than an upside-down rollercoaster, this deftly-plotted mystery is a welcome addition to the female PI genre!"

Author of the Deep Fried Mysteries, and the Cat Lady Mysteries - Linda Reilly