A Murdered Mother, Maybe, in Lesley A. Diehl’s MOTHER GETS A LIFT

June 21, 2011 - PRLog -- San Francisco, Calif.; Angela Baker should be thrilled at having given birth to her third baby, but her mother always finds a way of spoiling the moment. This time Mom takes a cruise specializing in plastic surgery and ends up overboard, murdered and leaving Angela to identify the body. But is it Mom? Angela isn’t certain, but then again…who would be? The woman has become unrecognizable as a result of too many little “procedures.”

Pushed by a detective determined to close the book on the murder, Angela does her own investigating and turns up more than one mother as well as the knife-wielding doctor from hell.

Lesley retired from her life as a professor of psychology and reclaimed her country roots by moving to a small cottage in the Butternut River Valley in upstate New York. In the winter she migrates to old Florida—cowboys, scrub palmetto, and open fields of grazing cattle, a place where spurs still jingle in the post office. Back north, she devotes her afternoons to writing and, when the sun sets, relaxing on the bank of her trout stream, sipping tea or a local microbrew. She was winner of the 2009 Sleuthfest short story contest sponsored by Mystery Writers of America, Florida Chapter. She is the author of A Deadly Draught released by Mainly Murder Press and Dumpster Dying from Oak Tree Press. Her short story Murder with All the Trimmings appeared in the Untreed Reads anthology The Killer Wore Cranberry.

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