Gumboots, Gumshoes & Murder

A Twin Peaks meets Fargo style of mystery/thriller with a distinctly west coast flavor and a dark comedic twist.

From pot farming fishermen and millionaire condom factory moonshine operators to best selling mystery and romance writers with deep, dark secrets, everyone on Seal Island seems to have something to hide.

Sgt Betty Bruce loves the laid back lifestyle of Seal Island until her pot-bellied pig, Gertrude, and side-kick Peaches, a Jersey cow, discover widow, Eliza Bone, floating bottoms-up in her Oscar fish tank. The one clue left at the scene is a set of muddy gumboot tracks. Betty's problem: everyone on Seal Island wears gumboots.
When semi-retired Supreme Court Judge, Violet Bone, arrives on the island for her sister in-law's funeral, she instinctively knows that Eliza's death was not accidental.
After several more bizarre deaths occur on the island, Betty and Violet join forces, but soon find themselves in the cross-hairs of a serial killer.
In the end, only Gertrude may be left standing.

"Gumboots, Gumshoes and Murder" is the first book in The Gumboot and Gumshoe Series. It is a black comedy in the vein of Fargo and Murder She Wrote. The unlikely trio of Sgt. Betty Bruce, Gertrude (a precocious and spunky pot-bellied pig) and Peaches (Gertrude's best buddy, a Jersey cow) were just too delicious to ignore and will appear in the sequels: The Dastardly Mr. Deeds and Murder Most Fowl.

For more information on author, Laura Hesse, visit www.RunningLProductions.com