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A Letter from Lucy Lawrence
Dear Reader,
It began with a Sharpie. Black, permanent and all over a
small side table, the scribbles stated emphatically, "I
had it" and "I hat dad". Upon investigation, the culprit
turned out to be my four year old son, who had been denied
thirds on fruit snacks by, you guessed it, his daddy.
These fresh scribbles went well with the intricate
rendering of an alien shooting lasers at a bionic hamster
done by his older brother, also using the medium of
Sharpie, also on my poor beleaguered side table.
There is no wonder cleaner invented that can save old wood
once it has quenched itself from the fountain of permanent
marker. It would seem I had but two choices, dumpster or
Good Will. Now not wanting to dampen the little one's
enthusiasm for the written word or the older one's budding
love of the arts, I decided we needed a creative solution
to salvage our poor table. Fortunately, I had taken a
decoupage class as a youngster and had found many uses for
this particular skill over the years. My sons helped me
decoupage that table with clippings from magazines, which
I then varnished over, and now they can admire their new
handiwork and have learned to confine their love of art
and literature to paper.
It was with great delight, as you can imagine, that I was
given the opportunity to write a decoupage mystery series
about this favorite and, as noted above, very handy craft
of mine. In STUCK ON MURDER, decoupage
artist, Brenna Miller has left Boston behind to come to
the quaint New England town of Morse Point and assist her
old friend Tenley Morse in her new shop Vintage Papers.
What she doesn't expect is to become embroiled in a land
war between the town mayor and her new landlord Nate
Williams. A world renowned artist gone recluse, Nate
causes Brenna more than a few heart palpitations with his
piercing gray eyes and teasing grins. She tries to ignore
him, but when she finds the mayor's body stuffed in a
trunk on Nate's property and he is considered the prime
suspect, Brenna realizes she's going to have to help solve
the mystery before Nate's doing time for a crime he didn't
commit.
Lucy Lawrence
www.jennmckinlay.com
www.mysteryloverskitchen.com
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