Blurb Blitz + #Giveaway: The Flapper, The Scientist, And The Saboteur by Charlene Dietz @GoddessFish

The Flapper, The Scientist, And The Saboteur

by Charlene Bell Dietz

GENRE: Mystery

BLURB:

A workaholic bio-medical scientist, Beth Armstrong, is torn between saving her sabotaged ground-breaking multiple sclerosis research or honoring an obligation to care for her chain-smoking, Cuba Libre drinking, ex-flapper aunt. Nursemaid ranks just above catching the plague on Beth’s scale, yet her ex-flapper aunt would prefer anything deadly to losing her independence under the hands of her obsessive compulsive niece. While a murderous culprit runs loose in the science institute, the raucous aunt entertains Beth’s neglected husband with nightly cocktails and stories form the Roaring twenties. The Flapper, the Scientist, and the Saboteur intertwines a corporate espionage mystery with a generational battle-of-wills story between a dedicated professional intent on fighting chaos to restore order and a free-spirited aunt who needs her niece to live in the moment.

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Excerpt:

Beth parked and turned off her lights.

Someone drove to a rear door, got out, and went in. Beth started to turn the key in her ignition then stopped. The man came out and passed under the security light by a side door.

Borstell.

A few seconds later, he disappeared around the corner. She slowly drove to the front of the building.

There were clusters of cars in the lot. Did he drive away? What type of car? Did he go inside?

She parked, slipped out, and squeezed between two sedans. One of the car doors opened, blocking her path. Borstell popped out.

She jumped back.

"Are you stalking me?" Borstell said.

"Excuse me?"

He stood a few feet away. Her hand slid into her purse.

"You drove around that building, spying."

"Isn’t it rather late for you to be at work?" she said.

Borstell slammed his door and strode toward her, his jaw clenched.

"You’re a first-class bitch?"

"Back off." She whipped the pepper spray can out of her purse, held her arm straight out and aimed at his face. Her finger hovered over the button.

Borstell’s eyes widened, then his gaze shifted to something behind her.

"I left the van behind the building," he said. "Put the keys in your box."

“Old trick.” She scoffed.

"Heard something." this came from an unfamiliar voice. "Everything okay?"

She glanced over her shoulder. Wearing a rumpled uniform and a large shiny badge, the security guard’s hand rested on his holster.  

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Charlene Bell Dietz writes science and historical-suspense, award-winning mystery novels and short stories. Her award-winning short stories have been published in the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers 2016 Anthology and SouthWest Writers 2019 Anthology. The Flapper, the Scientist, and the Saboteur combines family saga with corporate espionage. The Flapper, the Impostor, and the Stalker propels readers back into 1923 frenetic Chicago during the Roaring Twenties. Both these novels were named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2018, and each won the coveted Kirkus Starred Review. Her latest novel, The Scientist, the Psychic, and the Nut, gives readers a frightening Caribbean vacation. Her current work in progress, a biographical historical novel, starts in England in 1638 and ends in precolonial Maryland. Charlene, a retired educator, traveled the United States as a consultant for Houghton Mifflin Publishers after a career of teaching little ones, older ones, and college graduates. Surrounded by forests and meadows, she currently lives in the foothills of the mountains in central NM several miles from the small village of Torreon. Charlene is the current president of Croak & Dagger, New Mexico Chapter of Sisters in Crime. She belongs to Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, Rocky Mountain Mystery Writers, Mystery Writers of America, and SouthWest Writers.

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