Chaos is, as usual, the default setting for substitute teacher Barbara Reed's life in Reckless River, Washington. Her ex-husband is in trouble for lying to a judge, her overbearing sister is tailing her, and a series of error-ridden memos have teachers in an uproar. On top of that, if her condo complex doesn't win the holiday decorating competition, residents may never be rid of their obnoxious manager. But nothing can stop Barb and her friends from heading to Las Vegas to see their wealthy neighbor Muriel Ballantine compete in a seasoned showgirl reality program. Nothing, that is, except mutiny. And murder. Unless Barb's detective boyfriend finds a killer, he won't be in the audience. And unless Barb's entitled dog Cheese Puff calls off his strike and gets back to rehearsing, Mrs. B's routine will be doomed before she takes the stage.
Author Biography:
Carolyn J. Rose is the author of the recently released suspense novel Nightfall Bay. She also writes the popular Subbing isn't for Sissies series (No Substitute for Murder, No Substitute for Money, No Substitute for Maturity, No Substitute for Myth, No Substitute for Mistakes, No Substitute for Motives, and No Substitute for Misinformation), as well as the Catskill Mountains mysteries (Hemlock Lake, Through a Yellow Wood, and The Devil's Tombstone). Other works include An Uncertain Refuge, Sea of Regret, A Place of Forgetting, and projects written with her husband, Mike Nettleton (The Hard Karma Shuffle, The Crushed Velvet Miasma, Drum Warrior, Death at Devil's Harbor, Deception at Devil's Harbor, and the short story collection Sucker Punches). She grew up in New York's Catskill Mountains, graduated from the University of Arizona, logged two years in Arkansas with Volunteers in Service to America, and spent 25 years as a television news researcher, writer, producer, and assignment editor in Arkansas, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington. She's now a substitute teacher in Vancouver, Washington, and her interests are reading, swimming, walking, gardening, and NOT cooking.
