Today we welcome a special guest
blogger, Eula Mae Bains, aero-ag pilot and star of RP Dahlke’s Dead Red
Cadillac mystery series.
RP Dahlke writes humorous
mysteries about an annoyingly tenacious tall, blonde and beautiful, ex-model
turned crop-duster, who’s “been married so many times they oughta revoke (her)
license.” Learn more about her and her books at her website and blog.
My name is Eula Mae Bains, so named for my great-aunt, on my daddy's
side, the Texas side, or the stubborn side, depends on who you ask. My brother, who couldn't wrap his
tongue around Eula Mae, promptly shortened it to Lalla, and it has remained the
same; through school, then a stint in N.Y. City as a runway model, and couple
of bum marriages, and back to runways flying as an Aero-Ag pilot for my dad in
the central valley of California.
I've been told I'm a busybody, sticking my nose in where it's not
wanted, or needed, but after my vintage red Caddy (A Dead Red Cadillac) was found tailfins sticking out of a local
lake with an acquaintance strapped into the driver's seat, I was left in the
hot seat with City police, not to mention most of the population of Roxanne's
Café, my home away from home in Modesto, California.
All that unwanted attention was enough to motivate me to get right on
it. Uncover the culprit, bring him or her to justice. Not that I knew what I
was doing, that is, until the killer made it perfectly clear unless I quit
nosing around where I shouldn't, I was next.
What—and let a killer get away with murder? Not a chance. I'm not going
to be intimidated into silence when an innocent woman has been murdered, and
certainly not when someone thinks they can pin a murder on me. I've been called
impetuous, stubborn, nosy and downright reckless. Let 'em!
And I've been at it ever since, from A
Dead Red Cadillac, A Dead Red Heart,
A Dead Red Oleander, A Dead Red Alibi, A Dead Red Miracle and coming soon, A Dead Red Gamble.
A Dead Red Cadillac is one of the books in Sleuthing Women: 10 First-in-Series
Mysteries, a collection of full-length mysteries featuring murder and
assorted mayhem by ten critically acclaimed, award-winning, and bestselling
authors. Each novel in the set is the first book in an established multi-book
series—a total of over 3,000 pages of reading pleasure for lovers of amateur
sleuth, caper, and cozy mysteries, with a combined total of over 1700 reviews
on Amazon, averaging 4 stars.
Titles include:
Assault
With a Deadly Glue Gun, an Anastasia Pollack
Crafting Mystery by Lois Winston—Working mom Anastasia is clueless about her
husband’s gambling addiction until he permanently cashes in his chips and her
comfortable middle-class life craps out. He leaves her with staggering debt,
his communist mother, and a loan shark demanding $50,000. Then she’s accused of
murder…
Murder Among Neighbors, a Kate
Austen Suburban Mystery by Jonnie Jacobs — When Kate Austen’s socialite
neighbor, Pepper Livingston, is murdered, Kate becomes involved in a sea of
steamy secrets that bring her face to face with shocking truths—and handsome
detective Michael Stone.
Skeleton in a Dead Space, a Kelly O’Connell Mystery by Judy Alter—Real estate isn’t a dangerous profession until Kelly O’Connell stumbles over a skeleton
and runs into serial killers and cold-blooded murderers in a home being
renovated in Fort Worth. Kelly barges through life trying to keep from angering
her policeman boyfriend Mike and protect her two young daughters.
In
for a Penny, a Cleopatra Jones Mystery by
Maggie Toussaint—Accountant Cleo faces an unwanted hazard when her golf ball
lands on a dead banker. The cops think her BFF shot him, so Cleo sets out to
prove them wrong. She ventures into the dating world, wrangles her teens,
adopts the victim’s dog, and tries to rein in her mom…until the killer puts a
target on Cleo’s back.
The
Hydrogen Murder, a Periodic Table
Mystery by Camille Minichino—A retired physicist returns to her hometown of
Revere, Massachusetts and moves into an apartment above her friends' funeral
home. When she signs on to help the Police Department with a science-related
homicide, she doesn't realize she may have hundreds of cases ahead of her.
Retirement Can Be Murder, A Baby Boomer Mystery by Susan Santangelo—Carol Andrews dreads her husband
Jim’s upcoming retirement more than a root canal without Novocain. She can’t
imagine anything worse than having an at-home husband with time on his hands
and nothing to fill it—until Jim is suspected of murdering his retirement
coach.
Dead Air, A Talk
Radio Mystery by Mary Kennedy—Psychologist
Maggie Walsh moves from NY to Florida to become the host of WYME's On the
Couch with Maggie Walsh. When her guest, New Age prophet Guru Sanjay
Gingii, turns up dead, her new roommate Lark becomes the prime suspect.
Maggie must prove Lark innocent while dealing with a killer who needs more than
just therapy.
A Dead Red Cadillac, A Dead Red Mystery by RP Dahlke—When
her vintage Cadillac is found tail-fins up in a nearby lake, the police ask
aero-ag pilot Lalla Bains why an elderly widowed piano teacher is found
strapped in the driver’s seat. Lalla confronts suspects, informants, cross-dressers,
drug-running crop dusters, and a crazy Chihuahua on her quest to find the
killer.
Murder
is a Family Business, an Alvarez Family
Murder Mystery by Heather Haven—Just
because a man cheats on his wife and makes Danny DeVito look tall, dark and
handsome, is that any reason to kill him? The reluctant and quirky PI, Lee
Alvarez, has her work cut out for her when the man is murdered on her
watch. Of all the nerve.
Murder,
Honey, a Carol Sabala
Mystery by Vinnie Hansen—When the head chef collapses into baker Carol Sabala’s
cookie dough, she is thrust into her first murder investigation. Suspects
abound at Archibald’s, the swanky Santa Cruz restaurant where Carol works. The
head chef cut a swath of people who wanted him dead from ex-lovers to bitter
rivals to greedy relatives.
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