Sting of Lies
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Publisher Description
Can solving a mysterious poisoning save her career? Oh, and lead her to a long-lost buried treasure? Wait. AND thrust her into the arms of true love?
Paleontologist and poisons expert Myrna P. Lee, Ph.D. isn't a team player. Not because she doesn't want to be. She's just not very good at it. Even her dog gives her attitude. So, when she—and the dog—are sent to a remote billionaire's ranch tasked with solving an environmental poisoning, it's just fine with her. She doesn't need anyone else, no siree.
Until a handsome cowboy moseys up to her side and:
• helps her unravel a decades-old murder
• leads her on an adventurous hunt for long-lost treasure
• partners with her in a spine-tingling race against some very bad men
• shows her the value of teamwork
• and quite possibly steals her heart.
Even the dog likes him.
Too bad about that betrayal thing. Oh, and the sabotage. Wait. AND the grenades.
Sting of Lies is the rollicking first book in the Lies Mystery series. If you like brilliant but awkward heroines, humor amid the mayhem, and a splash of the paranormal, then you'll love Carol Potenza's thrilling tale.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Potenza (the Nicky Matthews series) pairs an idiosyncratic sleuth with a rip-roaring plot in this promising series launch. Gruff paleontologist and poison expert Myrna Lee, whose colorful past includes stealing from Siberian ivory hunters who subsequently threatened her with a rocket launcher, is seeking evidence to support her theory that human ancestors hunted prehistoric megafauna, including mammoths, with poison. With few promising leads and her grant funds drying up, Lee is thrilled to learn that a New Mexico ranch owned by the influential Donavan family houses a collection of artifacts that could help prove her thesis. Lee attempts to persuade matriarch Sylvia Donavan to give her access to the collection if she solves the mystery of what, or who, is poisoning elks on the ranch—deaths which, if they're made public, could scuttle the presidential aspirations of Sylvia's husband, Charles. Lee's mission grows even more complicated when she finds evidence that the poisonings were intentional, then discovers the body of an apparent murder victim on the property. Potenza peppers the action with plenty of enjoyable plot twists, and Lee's endearingly antisocial antics make her a refreshingly iconoclastic lead. Readers will be eager for the sequel. (Self-published)
