Nancy G. West is a recovering business major who
returned to grad school in English Literature to learn to write. She pens
mystery and suspense, sprinkled with humor. Each of her Aggie Mundeen Mysteries
has either been nominated or won an award. Learn more about Nancy and her books at
her website/blog, where you’ll also find that Aggie blogs, too.
Taking the Lead Character to a Beloved Place
I’ve known Aggie Mundeen and
San Antonio Detective Sam Vanderhoven for fifteen years. They popped into my
head when grad student Meredith Laughlin needed help with her life-threatening
dilemma in my first suspense novel, Nine
Days to Evil.
Aggie and Sam solved crimes
through four subsequent Aggie Mundeen Mysteries despite frequently incompatible
and sometimes amusing methods. I chronicled their struggles and watched their
volatile relationship combust and reassemble as they combated crime in San
Antonio, Texas. I enjoyed every minute of it. Readers said they fell in love
with Aggie, and some wanted to marry Sam.
But I knew the couple’s
dicey relationship had to either morph into greater mutual understanding and
deeper affection, or they would come to blows. I decided to really test them
and wrote The Plunge, the bridge to a
new spin-off series, the Aggie Mundeen Lake Mysteries.
In The Plunge, Aggie and Sam settle in for a relaxing lakeside weekend
and find themselves swept up in a rampaging flood of epic proportions. As they
fight for survival, disaster tests their courage and strains their
relationship.
Aggie, who has measured
personal success by her ability to solve crimes that challenge Sam, realizes
she needs to seek satisfaction outside his purview. Witnessing the grit of
flood survivors and the compassionate people who help them, she finds herself
drawn to unpredictable Lake Placid and the people who dwell nearby.
Plunge with Aggie Mundeen to
her new beloved place.
The Plunge
An Aggie Mundeen Lake Mystery, Book 1
Aggie Mundeen and San
Antonio Detective Sam Vanderhoven take care of a friend’s cottage on Lake
Placid, a retreat on Texas’ Guadalupe River. Buckets of rain and gusting winds
roil the lake, turning the peaceful, shady Guadalupe into an angry, raging
river. As darkness descends, lightning highlights two people arguing on a dock across
the river. When lightning flashes again, they are gone. Do Aggie and Sam
witness an accident? A drowning? A murder?
The Plunge
infects readers with the threat of looming disaster and the helplessness of
being swept along by an untamable force. Do survivors really survive if
disaster changes them forever?
Catastrophe propels Aggie
and Sam in a new direction and threatens to pull them apart in the new spin-off
series, the Aggie Mundeen Lake Mysteries.
Buy Links
Thank you for having me as your Friday guest! I’m at Malice Domestic today. Wildside Press is here with THE PLUNGE (ask for a signed copy) and the Malice Domestic Anthology, MURDER MOST EDIBLE. Stop by the Wildside Press booth and ask authors to sign your anthology at 9 p.m. tonight.
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