COTT: Anything for a Mystery by Cynthia Hickey
detective. What she lacks in skill she makes up for in nosiness. Add in the
sexy detective and a slightly nutty family and our lead character has her
hands full.
About the book:
Stormi Nelson, best-selling romance author, moved into her huge Victorian
house in the private community of Oak Meadows Estates. When her agent tells
her that her characters are becoming too cardboard and that she needs to
get out and mingle with people, she comes up with the idea of a
Neighborhood Watch Program. The only problem is … she’s the only member. On
her first night of patrol, she stumbles over a dead body, meets a hunky
detective, who happens to be her neighbor and clearly frustrated with her,
and her mother, sister, niece and nephew arrive to shake up Stormi’s
peaceful life. As she is immersed ever deeper into the mystery surrounding
a neighbor’s murder, she decides to change writing tactics and write a
romantic mystery based on her experiences. What follows is a frolicking
good time as Stormi finds herself the nosiest neighbor of them all. Can she
find the killer before she becomes the next victim?
A note from the author, Cynthia Hickey:
“Why I Became a Writer”
Funny how this roller-coaster business can tug on someone until it’s either
write or die. A bit dramatic, yes, but that’s how most writers feel.
I started reading at the young age of five and became hooked on words and
stories. Being a shy child, I would make up stories to act out, but it
wasn’t until Junior High when an English teacher assigned a
writing project that I realized how much I loved putting the story to
paper. I began writing short stories in which my younger brother was
featured as the hero, or I’d write a romance featuring me and whatever boy
I had a crush on at the time.
When I turned fifteen, I wrote my first “real story” about terrorists
taking over a high school. Funny how I have now seen that very plot made
into a movie. I couldn’t be stopped after that first “book.” I kept
writing, keeping my stories in a notebook, which I unfortunately lost when
I married and moved out of state. Then, life happened and I didn’t take up
writing again until the age of forty when my children were older and I had
time to devote to it.
In 2007, I published my first cozy mystery, Fudge-Laced Felonies,
with Barbour Publishing and haven’t slowed down since. Forty books later,
and several genres added to the mix, I have no intentions of stopping this
crazy career any time soon. It’s as much a part of me as breathing.
cozy mysteries and two novellas published through Barbour Publishing. She
had several historical romances release in 2013, 2014, 2015 through
Harlequin’s Heartsong Presents, and has sold half a million copies of her
works. She is active on FB, twitter, and Goodreads, and is a contributor to
Cozy Mystery Magazine blog and Suspense Sisters blog. She and her husband
run the small press, Forget Me Not Romances, which includes some of the
CBA’s well-known authors. She lives in Arizona with her husband, one of
their seven children, two dogs, two cats, three box turtles, and two
Sulcata tortoises. She has seven grandchildren who keep her busy and tell
everyone they know that “Nana is a writer”. Visit her website at
www.cynthiahickey.com
