Can Be Murder

Broke and aimless after three divorces, Chip Collingsworth wrote a crime novel as cathartic therapy. It became a success. Now they want book two. Buckling under the pressure, he escapes to Iowa to write Brain Freeze, a thriller set on the North Shore of Minnesota. What will happen when his real life starts to read like his crime fiction?

Chip Collingsworth, a popular crime writer and newest resident of Turners Bend, Iowa, is working hard on his next thriller, Mind Games, when dead bodies show up. Soon Chip is caught up in the search for a real-life murderer, as he faces a looming publication deadline and navigates a bumpy road to romance with Jane Swanson, town veterinarian. Once again, real life mirrors fiction in Chip's novel, as the lovely FBI agent, Jo Schwann, investigates a series of gruesome murders in the Twin Cities and her fragile romance with Dr. John Goodman encounters a frightening turn of events. This novel-within-a-novel sequel to Headaches Can Be Murder is full of twists and turns, mistaken identities and romantic missteps, proving that love indeed can be murder.