Hi, I’m Sunny Taylor, and I live within the unique bayou region and culture that make up south Louisiana. One day I might spend hours preparing seafood gumbo and creamy pecan pralines for the Gumbo Kitchen, our small town’s soup kitchen for the needy. On most days if I’m lucky I’m busting down walls or hammering wood to remodel a house into someone’s dream home. I notice details since I worked in the lingerie department of Sugar Ledge’s only upscale ladies shop, where I quickly recognized who might need a B cup or EE one for a bra. I could also tell who went around sans underwear, something I did not want to imagine or consider. I have since lost that job.
My attention to detail became an attribute to Twin Sisters Remodeling & Repair, the business my sister Eve and I started a few months ago, and I desperately need to succeed. Any severe thunderstorm might cause more troubles for my roof that I urgently require money to replace. Paying attention to detail also causes me to focus on problems, like why is that widow wearing a bright red sheath and matching spikey heels to carry her husband’s ashes into the church? She killed him, I figured right after she tripped and dumped him all over the floor. There was no bump in the carpet she had just stepped on, I’d seen. And her reaction to me after I offered to vacuum him up was horrible. Actually, I first sang a few bars of “Jingle Bells,” but that was just because I was afraid at first—a problem that started when I was eight and somebody murdered my oldest sister in front of me. I had no idea what to do while I waited for Mom and other people to come and see about her. If I’d cried, I knew I would never stop, so I sang. “Happy Birthday” and Christmas carols were the only songs I knew.
I’ve struggled for years to get rid of that affliction just like I’ve worked to overcome my difficulties with dyslexia. Early teachers and classmates thought I was only stupid until one wonderful teacher recognized my symptoms and told other teachers how I could learn best. She also let me know that Churchill, da Vinci, Edison, and Einstein all shared the same trait. Still, I get Eve to check any bids I develop, and so far they have all been correct. Eve is joining me with a remodeling project and trying to prove I wasn’t the killer after many people heard me arguing with the next person who died. Eve also wants me to find romance again. She really wouldn’t want that if she only knew that the one man who has finally interested me is the man she believes is her soulmate.
Hello, my name is Eve Vaughn. I look exactly like Sunny except I like to wear a little more makeup than she does, and I prefer my clothes slightly snugger and dressier. I have been married three times to wonderful men who still believe they should shower me with finery although I don’t think that’s necessary. Having my first husband give me my daughter made my life complete. I had lived out of town quite a while and don’t have quite the financial need that my sister does. When we aren’t working on houses, which we learned to do with our father, I am painting, although not very good, or working out at the gym. Sometimes we visit our loving mother, who insisted she live at the attractive retirement home once her rheumatoid arthritis got so bad, and now her Chat and Nap buddies can’t wait to give Sunny and me advice on murder and love.
While we try to work hard and stay out of trouble, I am waiting for my daughter in Houston who did like I did—got married really young—to give birth. I also need to admit I am rather forward with men, but I’ve met this man that I’m certain is the one I have looked for all my life. Now if only I could get my twin to also find a man she could love, I would be thrilled. And I need to stay away from a killer while proving neither my sister nor I am one.
A FATAL ROMANCE is the first book in the NEW Twin Sisters mystery series published by Lyrical Underground, January 2017.
Fixing up homes can be tricky.
Finding true love can be even trickier.
But finding a killer can be plain old deadly . . .
Twin sister divorcees Sunny Taylor and Eve Vaughn have had their fill of both heartaches and headaches. So when they settle down in the small Louisiana town of Sugar Ledge and open a remodeling and repair company, they think they’ve finally found some peace—even though Eve is still open for romance while Sunny considers her own heart out-of-business.
Then their newest customer ends up face-down in a pond, and his widow is found dead soon after. Unfortunately, Sunny was witnessed having an unpleasant moment with the distraught woman, and suspicion falls on the twins. And when an attempt is made on Eve’s life, they find themselves pulled into a murder mystery neither knows how to navigate.
With a town of prying eyes on them, and an unknown culprit out to stop them, Sunny and Eve will have to depend on each other like never before if they’re going to clip a killer in the bud.
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About the author
June Shaw grew up sharing swamps and bayous with alligators that don’t take up much room. She has written the highly praised Cealie Gunther cozy mystery series, books of many others genres, and now begins her Twin Sisters series with A Fatal Romance for Lyrical Press. To be published on January 24, it is available for pre-order now and will be followed in the fall by Dead on the Bayou and then Saving Mom. Follow June at juneshaw.com.
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Giveaway: Leave a comment below for your chance to win a $10 Amazon gift certificate. The giveaway ends January 25, 2017. Good luck everyone!
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One look at that beautiful cover and I was hooked! Then I read the blog and now I have to read this and figure it all out. So many details I want more information about! Thanks Dru Ann for selecting this new series for today! Thanks June for the generous prize so the winner can get their own copy! 🙂
Loved everything about this book, cover and the delightful twins. Thanks for the introduction & chance to win.
This new series sounds so good! Can’t wait to read it!
Looking forward to reading “A Fatal Romance”.
Looking forward to reading this new to me series about twin sisters who are divorced and set up a business in Louisiana.
Sounds like a promising new series, it’s going on my wish list !
What a nice giveaway!! Would love to win! And look forward to this new series too!
I like books set in Louisiana and this one sounds particularly interesting to me with the jobs the twin sisters have. Thanks for a chance to enter!
I enjoy books set in Louisiana. I read an ARC of this book and really liked it. Thank you for this giveaway and chance to win.
I love the concept for this series and it sounds like a great new series. I would love to win a copy of this book. Thank you for the chance to win Dru!
This series sounds wonderful and special. Thanks.
This looks like it’s going to be a long running series. I can also use the prize money right now, so toss my name into the magic hat Dru and let’s see what happens.
I love books set in Louisiana–all that great food and atmosphere. I’m looking forward to starting this series.
What a great sounding book. I am definitely checking it out. Thanks for including it in your blog. My fingers are crossed I might be lucky enough to win a copy.
This sounds like a great book and a wonderful new series. Thanks for sharing!
Another book added to the Amazon wish list. Thanks for featuring June Shaw today. I can’t wait to check out this new series!
This is another new series that will be on my must-read list. I’d love to win the gift card to help me purchase them.
Must read. Used to date a Cajun.
Wow another new series that has totally pulled me in! I am putting it in both my Amazon wish list, next to be purchased an my Goodreads list. I would love to win the gift card as it would help me purchase this book!
A new series that is right up my alley!! Thanks for the good review…you have my attention 😉
Traveling to new Orleans and then on to the bayous is on the top of my bucket list.
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Sounds good, I love the twin sister idea, this should be fun.
I am going to have to read this! It has a new twist with the twins! Thanks!
Love the sound of the book and the cover.
WOW, I have got to read this one.
Mysteries featuring twin sisters sounds like enjoyable reads.
Love new to me authors and first in series.
Looking forward to reading this one!
This new series sounds like a great read. I really enjoyed the excerpt and I like reading stories set in the South. Can’t wait to read.
You just keep introducing to knew authors and books. Keep it up.
WOW…..another awesome new author with an awesome new book to read!!!! Sounds like an exciting mystery!!! The cover of this new book is AWESOME!!!! Thanks so much dearest Dru Ann and June Shaw for the chance to win a gift card…..it will definitely be put to use buying this new book if I should win!!!! God bless you girls!!!
This sounds like a great read. I enjoyed Louisiana and New Orleans and the the bayou area; people so friendly and the food so delicious.
Next best thing to being there is to read about the area.
I’d love to win this giveaway so I could buy more books!! Thanks for the chance!
Looking forward to reading this book; thanks for the chance 🙂
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Thanks for the heads up on a new author and series. So appreciate it. A gc will help. Much appreciated.
Sounds like a great start to a new series. Thanks for introducing us to it.
**** WINNER ****
of $10 Amazon gift certificate from June Shaw is Amy Gill
Congratulations!