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BOTCHED 4 MURDER
Book 4 in the Sophie KimballMysteries
by J.C. Eaton
Bowled over . . .
Sophie “Phee” Kimball is getting dragged into the drama again at her mom’s Arizona retirement community. A new board member wants to get rid of two golf courses and replace them with eco-friendly parks, and some of the residents are pretty teed off about it. On top of that, her mother’s book club friend Myrna is being pushed out of the bocce league. These seniors are serious about winning, and Myrna’s dragging them down. She’s so bad at bocce, in fact, that when a community mem.ber’s dead body is discovered while Myrna’s practicing for a tournament, she assumes it was one of her own errant balls that killed the woman.
But before Myrna can be tossed off the bocce court and into criminal court, the police find an arrow in the victim’s neck. It looks like this was no accident—and Phee and her investigator boyfriend Marshall will have to team up to bounce a killer into the slammer . . .
Sophie “Phee” Kimball is getting dragged into the drama again at her mom’s Arizona retirement community. A new board member wants to get rid of two golf courses and replace them with eco-friendly parks, and some of the residents are pretty teed off about it. On top of that, her mother’s book club friend Myrna is being pushed out of the bocce league. These seniors are serious about winning, and Myrna’s dragging them down. She’s so bad at bocce, in fact, that when a community mem.ber’s dead body is discovered while Myrna’s practicing for a tournament, she assumes it was one of her own errant balls that killed the woman.
But before Myrna can be tossed off the bocce court and into criminal court, the police find an arrow in the victim’s neck. It looks like this was no accident—and Phee and her investigator boyfriend Marshall will have to team up to bounce a killer into the slammer . . .
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LKBR: Thank you
for being here today. Please tell us
a bit about BOTCHED 4 MURDER.
JCE: BOTCHED
4 MURDER is the fourth book in our Sophie Kimball Mysteries (Kensington).
Forty-something amateur sleuth and bookkeeper/accountant Sophie (Phee) Kimball
from Mankato, MN, winds up in her mother’s retirement community of Sun City
West, AZ when she’s asked to solve a number of suspicious deaths. Her mother,
Harriet Plunkett, and her loony aunt Ina, coupled with their book club ladies
drive Phee crazy as she tries to unravel the clues and solve the mysteries. To
make matters worse, Phee’s mother has adopted the most neurotic little dog
ever, a Chiweenie by the name of Streetman, whose quirks are enough to push
anyone over the edge, especially Phee.
In BOTCHED 4 MURDER, Phee is at it again, only this time at
the Sun City West bocce courts when her mother’s friend, Myrna, is convinced
she killed someone with a lobbed bocce ball that managed to get into the
adjoining golf course. Naturally, there’s a dead body, but it wasn’t a bocce
ball that felled the victim – it was a bow and arrow!
To make
matters worse, the community is all a-buzz with the latest proposal from one of
its board members – turn the golf courses into eco-friendly parks. With more
threats than imaginable, Phee’s worried the golf course victim won’t be the
last.
LKBR: How did
you come up with the concept?
JCE: We live
in Sun City West and watch all of the antics that go on around here. Then, we
embellish them and use hyperbole to move the story and characters along. We
take composites of people, including our own relatives, and create quirky
characters.
LKBR: What are
your future plans for the Sophie Kimball series? Any hints or spoilers you can
give us about the next book?
JCE: The
series continues with MOLDED 4 MURDER, HOLIDAZED 4 MURDER, BROADCAST 4 MURDER,
AND RAILROADED 4 MURDER. Each book focuses on a different club or activity
going on in Sun City West and its surrounding communities in the West Valley of
Phoenix. Right now, we’ve completed some first drafts and a number of edits so
we can stay on schedule.
MOLDED 4 MURDER is set for release in the spring of 2019 and
it deals with a mysterious murder at the clay club.
LKBR: Is
writing an energizing experience, or does it take a lot out of you?
JCE: Wow.
Both. Sometimes one of us gets on a roll and goes non-stop. Other times, it
really involves pushing a boulder uphill. We really enjoy the experience and
can’t imagine not doing this.
LKBR: Once you knew you wanted to be a
published writer, who was the first person you reached out to for help?
JCE: Before we started on this joint
venture, Ann wrote a number of YA time travel novels (www.timetravelmysteries.com)
and she reached out to other published authors in that genre. Our agent, Dawn
Dowdle, has been indispensable in terms of help and support as we were getting
started on our cozy mysteries. She continues to be there for us and we
genuinely appreciate it. In addition, we have a fabulous editor at Kensington,
Tara Gavin, as well as a very supportive editor, Jennifer McCord, at Camel for
our Marcie Rayner detective series.
LKBR: What sort of research do you
do for your books? Is it more computer based or hands on?
JCE: We do both kinds of research
for our novels. We talk with people who are familiar with the different aspects
that appear in our novels and we use the internet all the time for our
searches. In our Wine Trail Mysteries, (Kensington), Jim did a tremendous amount
of research on chocolatiers and the processes they use for making chocolate.
Spoiler alert – That novel, SAUVIGONE FOR GOOD, won’t be out until next year.
LKBR: What is your
writing process? Place, time of day, by the hour or word count?
JCE: We write
whenever we can and we both work in different parts of the house or we’d drive
each other nuts. Then, we get together and review our notes, etc. The summer is
the best writing time for us because it gets SO hot here in Arizona (triple
degree temps) that we are indoors from noon to seven at night. Great time to
write.
LKBR: How do
you come up with character names?
JCE: We look at club directories,
church/synagogue directories, and real estate agent names. Then, we alter them
to create new names that fit our characters. Sometimes, out of the blue, a name
just pops up. In the case of Sophie Kimball, we named her after our great
niece, Phee.
LKBR: Is it difficult to write
characters of the opposite sex?
JCE: Since we are a husband and wife
team, we rely on each other.
(LKBR: Readers,
did you know J.C. Eaton is a husband and wife team?)
LKBR: Do you
read reviews of your books? If you do, and a review is bad, what effect does it
have on you? (I know some reviews are mean as opposed to constructive.)
JCE: Jim
doesn’t let the negative reviews get to him but Ann sure does if the review is
mean-spirited. Constructive advice is always welcomed and we do use it.
LKBR: What are
3 things readers may not know about you?
JCE: We are
total animal lovers and have worked with a number of rescue groups.
We are also
foster failures and that’s how we wound up with our five cats and our dog.
Ann is terrified of snakes and when one of them got into our
house she called the fire department even though Jim was well on his way of
removing it. We used that scenario in our first Sophie Kimball mystery, BOOKED
4 MURDER.
LKBR: Where can
readers go to learn more about you and your books?
JCE:
Website: www.jceatonauthor.com
Facebook: https://facebook.com/JCEatonauthor.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JCEatonauthor
Barnes
& Noble:
LKBR: Thank you
so much for letting us get to know you better!
Having
read only the first book in the Sophie Kimball Mysteries, I wasn’t sure I’d be
able to follow along in this fourth installment. Of course, things have changed,
and the characters have grown, but I had no problem following this story at all.
BOTCHED
4 MURDER was another fun visit to Arizona with Phee, and the sassy seniors of
Sun City West. This mystery was full of hijinks, mayhem, and surprises. The twists
and turns were so sharp even a seasoned sleuth would have been shocked at the
story’s reveal.
BOTCHED
4 MURDER is not to be missed by fans of this series. And like me, you’ll be
left highly anticipating the next book.
About the Authors
Ann I. Goldfarb
New York native Ann I. Goldfarb spent most of her life in education, first as a classroom teacher and later as a middle school principal and professional staff developer. Writing as J. C. Eaton, along with her husband, James Clapp, she has authored the Sophie Kimball Mysteries (Kensington) set for release in June 2017. In addition, Ann has nine published YA time travel mysteries under her own name. Visit the websites at www.jceatonauthor.com and www.timetravelmysteries.com
James E. Clapp
When James E. Clapp retired as the tasting room manager for a large upstate New York winery, he never imagined he’d be co-authoring cozy mysteries with his wife, Ann I. Goldfarb. His first novel, Booked 4 Murder
(Kensington) is set for release in June 2017. Non-fiction in the form of informational brochures and workshop materials treating the winery industry were his forte along with an extensive background and experience in construction that started with his service in the U.S. Navy and included vocational school classroom teaching.
(Kensington) is set for release in June 2017. Non-fiction in the form of informational brochures and workshop materials treating the winery industry were his forte along with an extensive background and experience in construction that started with his service in the U.S. Navy and included vocational school classroom teaching.
Visit their website at www.jceatonauthor.com and Like and Follow on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/JCEatonauthor/
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ReplyDeleteThank you for your review on "BOTCHED 4 MURDER" by J.C. Eaton and for being part of the book tour.
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed reading the interview and learning more about both book and author. Can't wait for the opportunity to read this book. LOVE the cover!
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