MUD BLOOD

About the Book

Vera Moonachie is writing a mystery with criminal lawyer Fulton Yee. He won't tell her the murderer, so she won't drop hints. Abruptly, Fulton disappears. Now caught in a murder investigation, Vera goes to the storied Sacramento Delta to unravel the tangled skein of a bloody murder planned to resolve an old Sacramento Delta land dispute. Vera is drawn into the bizarre lives of an aging actor, a chef, and the hornet's nest of Fulton's feuding trio of lovers. As she walks a knife's edge between brutal rivals in an authorship dispute, Vera must find Fulton; find out why he disappeared; and find out who is the murderer in her own novel.

And then, against an approaching book deadline, someone tries to kill Vera. Old agreements can be murder.

About the Author

Writer, teacher, entrepreneur, JOAN DEL MONTE was a featured author in a 2007 Museum of Contemporary Art show in Washington, D.C. She wrote an antiques bibliography for Los Angeles Public Library and taught a college course in mystery writing: ?A Guide To The Pitfalls From Someone Who Has Fallen In Most Of Them?. She lives in Venice, California.