"Mother, Murder, and Me" by Sandra Gardner Available Now

June 10, 2012 - PRLog -- Lake Hill, NY -  Author Sandra Gardner, winner of the New Author Contest from Swyers Publishing, just released her first novel “Mother, Murder, and Me”.  

When Marabella Vinegar finds her psychotherapist's bloody corpse, she becomes the NYPD's perp of choice. Her recently deceased mother - the bane of her existence in life - comes back to help get her out of trouble and find the real killer. Things get even worse when, thanks to Marabella and her mother's sleuthing, someone tries to kill her. Then another body is found and Marabella is thrown in jail, awaiting trial for two murders. Can she and her mother-the-ghost-detective find the killer before Marabella becomes corpse number three?

Mother, Murder, and Me is available at a number of online retailer's.
Amazon Web site (http://www.amazon.com), Barnes and Noble Web site (http://www.barnesandnoble.com), Smashwords Web site (http://www.smashwords.com), and on Swyers’ Web site (http://www.pamelaswyers.com).

UPCOMING AREA READINGS/SIGNINGS:

Saturday, June 23, 3 pm, Barnes & Noble, Kingston

Thursday, July 12, 6 pm, Golden Notebook Bookstore, Woodstock

Saturday, July 28, 7 pm, West Hurley Library

Sunday, July 29, 3 pm, Inquiring Mind Bookstore, Saugerties

Sandra Gardner is a former contributing writer and columnist for The New York Times and the author of four non-fiction books: Six Who Dared (Simon & Schuster); Street Gangs (Franklin Watts); Teenage Suicide (Simon & Schuster); and Street Gangs in America (Franklin Watts). Street Gangs in America received an award from the National Federation of Press Women. A chapbook of her poetry collection, Mythmaking, was published by Word Journal Press. Gardner has taught writing for the International Women's Writing Guild and the Institute of Children's Literature.