Title: Twelve to Murder
Author: Lauren Carr
Publisher: Acorn Book Services
Genre: Mystery
Format: eBook
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Two people are brutally murdered in their summer place on Deep Creek
Lake midnight ?
Book Excerpt:
Sunday:
6:12 am
“Austin
Two paces behind his wife,
Roland took note of the white stone mansion along the chilly lakeshore. The
mansion looked closed up. All was quiet, as it was with many of the estates
along the lake in the early spring. With each passing day, the quiet was giving
way to the snowbirds came in to roost at their summer homes in the resort town
of Spencer Deep
Creek Lake Maryland
As the middle aged athletic
couple walked briskly on the running trail along the lake, they noted that that
mansion was quiet. The only tell-tale sign of change from its winter
hibernation was the yacht on the dock in the back. It had not been there the
morning before.
“I wonder if Janice will be
throwing her week long Fourth of July bash with all her has-been clients this
year?” Roland asked.
“I can tell you right now that
I’m not going if that loser Lenny is here.” Feeling her heartbeat slowing down,
she picked up her pace.
“Come on,” her husband said with a laugh,
“Lenny Frost isn’t that bad. He’s really kind of funny.”
“He’s crude,” she shot over her
shoulder at him.
He was going to respond that he
felt sorry for the least popular of Janice Stillman’s former celebrity client
when a black Porsche almost hit the couple rushing pass them and turning
sharply into the driveway of the white mansion.
“Do you two ever take a break?”
the young man shouted at them when he threw open the door and climbed out of
the sports car.
“Never,” Olivia answered with a
frown at Derrick Stillman’s apparent lack of self-discipline displayed in the
slight stagger in his pace, and clearly having slept in his clothes, or maybe
not slept in them, but clearly having worn them the day before judging by their
wrinkled and disheveled appearance.
“Well, you can work-out for me,
too.”
“Party last night?” Roland
asked.
“Date.” Derrick ran his fingers through his
dark curly hair. “I was going to come in yesterday with my folks, but when I
met Maddie the other day—“ He let out a cocky laugh. “Well, you know how it
is.”
“I can imagine,” Olivia said in
a bland tone.
“She’s got a body to die for
and she’s crazy about me.” With a swagger in his walk, he made his way to the
front door.
“Come along, Roland,” Olivia
ordered.
The couple continued on their
way. They had only made it to the other end of the property before Derrick’s
screams stopped them. The young man was running out the front door and dropped
to his knees in the yard when they made it back to the driveway.
Olivia rushed over to the young
man, who had his face buried in his hands. “Cliff, what’s wrong?”
Shrieking, the young man
pointed to the door.
Roland ran inside.
“What happened, Derrick?” she
demanded to know. “What’s going on? What’s in there?”
His face white, Roland came
running back outside.
Olivia’s heartbeat was racing.
“Roland …”
“They’re dead,” he said in a
panicked tone while taking his cell phone out of his pocket. “Both of them.
Janice and Austin. I can’t believe this would happen here … in Spencer.”
“Who—“ she asked with tears in
her eyes.
“Janice wrote something in her
blood—” He stopped to turn his attention to the cell phone. “I’d like to report
two murders.”
“Her killer,” Derrick spat out.
“I saw it, too. Lenny. Why else would Mom have written out his name in her
blood while she was dying? Lenny Frost did it. He killed my parents.”
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About the Author:
Lauren Carr is the best-selling author of the Mac Faraday Mysteries, which takes place in Deep Creek Lake , Maryland
In addition to her series set on Deep Creek Lake
The owner of Acorn Book Services, Lauren is also a publishing manager, consultant, editor, cover and layout designer, and marketing agent for independent authors. This year, several books, over a variety of genre, written by independent authors will be released through the management of Acorn Book Services, which is currently accepting submissions. Visit Acorn Book Services website for more information.
Lauren is a popular speaker who has made appearances at schools, youth groups, and on author panels at conventions. She also passes on what she has learned in her years of writing and publishing by conducting workshops and teaching in community education classes.
She lives with her husband, son, and three dogs on a mountain in Harpers Ferry , WV
Visit her author website at www.mysterylady.net.
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1 Moonbeams (comments):
Thank you so much for the book feature for Twelve to Murder! This is a great kickoff for the Twelve to Murder Book Tour!
Best,
Lauren
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