Everyone is innocent until proven guilty, or so they say.
Welcome to the November 10th stop on the blog tour for The Big Shakeup by Nancy Boyarsky with Goddess Fish Promotions. Be sure to follow the rest of the tour for spotlights, reviews, and a giveaway! More on that at the end of this post.
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About the Book
The Big Shakeup
Nicole Graves Mysteries Book Seven
by Nancy Boyarsky
Published 26 September 2023
Torchflame Books
Genre: Mystery
Page Count: 178
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Everyone is innocent until proven guilty, or so they say.
P.I. Nicole Graves arrives early at work, just as Los Angeles is hit with “the Big One,” a long-predicted, devastating earthquake. When the building stops shaking, Nicole finds Jerry, her boss, in his office dying of a gunshot wound. It appears to be suicide.
Nicole is shocked to learn that the police have decided Jerry’s death was murder and even more shocked that she’s their only suspect when there’s no shortage of people with motives. And there’s the question of why the detectives are pursuing this one case when all city workers, including the police, are in an all-out search and rescue operation for survivors. All she can do is evade capture long enough to prove her innocence and catch the real culprit.
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Excerpt
By the time Melanie shouted out again, Nicole had made a decision. “I’ll be down in a minute,” she called. “I have to change.” She grabbed her purse, jacket, and iPad and tiptoed down the back stairs. Once outside, she ran through the backyard, scaled the rear fence, and raced down the alley. She ran until she couldn’t run anymore, then stopped in the front yard of a ramshackle house.
It was already late afternoon, the light dimming. She looked in the direction she’d come from. A car turned onto the street a few blocks away. It was a black-and-white patrol car. As she watched, it turned on its siren and headed toward her.
About the Author
Nancy’s award-winning Nicole Graves Mysteries have been compared to Mary Higgins Clark and are praised for contributing to the “women-driven mystery field with panache” (Foreword Reviews) as well as for their “hold-onto-the-bar roller coaster” plots (RT Book Reviews). Her debut novel The Swap—book one of the Nicole Graves Mysteries—won the prestigious Eric Hoffer award for Best Micro Press Book of the Year.
Nancy has been a writer and editor for her entire working career. She coauthored Backroom Politics, a New York Times notable book, with her husband Bill Boyarsky. She has written several textbooks on the justice system and contributed to anthologies, including In the Running about women’s political campaigns and The Challenge of California. She has also written for the Los Angeles Times, West magazine, Forbes, McCall’s, Playgirl, Westways, and other publications. She was communications director for political affairs for ARCO.
In addition to writing mysteries, Nancy is producer and director of the “Inside Golden State Politics” podcast.
Nancy can be contacted through her website, nancyboyarsky.com.
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Giveaway Alert!
Nancy Boyarsky will be awarding a $20 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
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