Hickory Dickory Stalk
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Publisher Description
Author of One, Two, What Did Daddy Do?
What you can’t see…can hurt you.
ONE BLIND MOUSE
A plumpish mid-Texas romance novelist and mother of three, E. J. Pugh is being harassed by someone unseen. An invisible high-tech prankster is wreaking havoc with her computer, phone lines, bank account, her existence in general. She suspects a certain creepy neighbor kid is responsible—until the creep winds up naked and dead in the Pugh family car.
Suddenly the anonymous hacker/stalker is more brazen than ever—even threatening the lives of E. J’s kids. The police won't help, since they believe E. J. has a vivid imagination. So it's up to mother hen to protect her own chicks—by uncovering a hidden trail of deadly passions that leads to a killer...and living to tell about it.
“Even a bright sunny day feels menacing in the hands of this pro.” —Margaret Maron, author of Up Jumps the Devil
Don't miss the first E. J. PUGH mystery: ONE, TWO, WHAT DID DADDY DO?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In her second mystery featuring romance writer E.J. Pugh (after One, Two, What Did Daddy Do?), the suspense begins slowly when prank 911 calls are traced to E.J's home. But it doesn't stop there, and eventually her five-year-old daughter eats a piece of candy spiked with glass. Suspicions focus on a teenage Peeping Tom, until he turns up dead in the back seat of E.J.'s station wagon. Strange neighbors and her husband's overly amorous colleague are among the suspects as threats mount against E.J. and her children. The heroine's sardonic wit and guts will endear her to readers and the tension is kept up throughout. Her Texas setting is freshly rendered, but E.J.'s identity as a romance novelist isn't as convincing--she lacks insight into the genre and repeats derogatory stereotypes that real romance writers studiously avoid.
