Final Arrangements

Writer's Digest Award Winning AuthorFor successfully delivering her mother's friend, fierce competitor Iffy Bigelow, to the world-famous Philadelphia Flower Show in time to perfect that day's entries, Ginger Barnes and mother Cynthia are rewarded with Iffy's extra maintenance passes. Unfortunately, while they roam the amazing displays with elbow room to spare, Iffy is in a storage room behind the Tastee Freeze booth getting strangled with her own scarf. The remaining Grand Prize contenders seem relieved to have lost their toughest rival, but surely they aren't all murder suspects! What about Iffy's husband? The police favor the victim's mentally unstable niece for the crime, but Gin's mother will have none of it. "You solved a murder for your husband," she reminds the amateur sleuth she raised. "Now you can solve one for me." Real life doesn't always offer a satisfying outcome, but Donna Huston Murray's mysteries do. STRANGER DANGER, the third in her female sleuth, crime/thriller series was awarded the Global Book Awards' Silver Medal for thrillers and became a Finalist in the National Indie Excellence Awards. The first two novels in the series received Honorable Mentions in genre fiction from Writer's Digest.Her cozy Ginger Barnes whodunits feature an amateur sleuth much like herself, a DIY headmaster's wife with a troubling interest in crime. The eighth, FOR BETTER OR WORSE, became a Finalist in the National Indie Excellence Awards.When she isn't plotting mayhem, Donna assumes she can fix anything until proven wrong, calls trash-picking recycling, and, even though she should know better by now, got a new puppy. Check her socials and you'll understand.Donna and husband, Hench, live in Gwynedd, PA, USA.Book descriptions, reviews, and more at donnahustonmurray.com When amateur sleuth and DIY enthusiast Ginger Barnes gets transplanted from the "wrong side of the river" to Philadelphia's tony "Main Line" by her husband's job, she quickly learns crime can strike very close to home, no matter where home is.