Author of "No Accounting for Murder"; a Suzanne McTavish Mystery Novel

Big-city accountant, Suzanne McTavish, left the fast lane and returned to her roots in the sleepy logging town of Barkerville, Oregon, where she now works preparing tax returns. A sexy redhead with a nose for snooping, she finds herself embroiled in her clients’ lives. Her suspicious nature kicks into fourth gear when her client, Margaret, arrives disheveled and bruised. Margaret insists nothing is wrong, dumps her papers and shuffles off. Later that day, Suzanne turns amateur sleuth when the woman’s bank accounts turn up empty. Before she can question her, eighty-year-old Margaret turns up dead. Natural causes, says old Doc Spears. No way, says Suzanne. She convinces authorities to autopsy, but before results are in, she’s already rounded up a cast of suspects. Careers are at stake. One of Suzanne’s five suspects is on to her, resulting in a threatening phone call and an attempt to break into her home which is thwarted by her huge Lab, Jefferson. One wild, rainy night, Suzanne dons her black raincoat and crumpled Fedora, slips her .38 into her pocket and sneaks into Margaret’s house to find her journal. From it, she learns shocking secrets in her old schoolteacher’s past: infidelity, collusion, a trunk containing a million dollars in gold coins, and a cold-blooded murder twelve years in the past. While she’s up to her neck in tax clients, as well as tracking suspects, Suzanne has problems of a different nature: two men vie for her attentions. The town’s deputy is more interested in seduction. What is it about him that Suzanne tries to remember? No Accounting for Murder has more twist and turns than Oregon’s coast highway. You’ll be dizzy trying to trail the real killer. ISBN: 1-4033-5359-X BUY IT NOW!

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Shirley Gooch Linkhart draws on her history as a fifth-generation native of Southwestern Oregon to write mystery and thriller books depicting small-town life. She is a member of Oregon Writers Colony, Willamette Writers, and is co-founder of the Barn Owls Critique Group in Grants Pass, Oregon. She launched her fiction-writing career after early retirement from her real estate brokerage and tax consultant business. No Accounting for Murder is her first published novel. She resides with her husband in Grants Pass, the town where she was born.

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Shirley Gooch Linkhart Email: sagooch@charter.net Phone: 541-479-1710