Uncommon grounds
by Sandra Balzo
Women detectivesMaggy Thorsen (Fictitious character)Crimes againstFictionCoffee industry
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Patricia Harper is dead, killed by a hot-wired espresso machine, in Uncommon Grounds, her very own gourmet coffee store! Maggy Thorsen wants to know who killed one of her partners. Maggy needs the store to succeed. Starting over after her divorce, she's quit her PR job to open the coffee store. And if things aren't already tough enough, she begins to suspect one of her friends is responsible for Patricia's murder. Maggy joins forces with Sarah Kingstown, Patricia's closest friend, to investigate her killing. Together, they uncover unsavory small-town politics, bribes, kickbacks, and rampant infidelity. Before she's through, Maggy's sense of right and wrong will be shaken to its foundations. For once in her life, she is forced to draw her own line in the sand, and be prepared to defend it.
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Women detectivesMaggy Thorsen (Fictitious character)Crimes againstFictionCoffee industryCoffeehouses
About the author
Sandra Balzo
A native of southeastern Wisconsin, USA, Sandra Balzo currently splits her time between Florida and the High Country of North Carolina. She turned to mystery writing after twenty years in corporate public relations, event management and publicity. Her novels have been nominated for both the Anthony and Macavity awards and received starred reviews from Kirkus and Booklist. In addition to her books about coffee-maven Maggy Thorsen and displaced journalist AnnaLise Griggs, Balzo writes short stories, two of which have been published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, winning the Macavity, Derringer and Robert L. Fish awards. She has handled publicity for three Bouchercons (World Mystery Conventi…
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