Bathing with the Dead (First Kiss Mystery Book 1)

Chosen by the Gods to be sacrificed?

Despite her fear of flying, Fernanda accompanies her new husband Randy, an IBM consultant, to the oldest city in the world, Varanasi, India. Fernanda is overwhelmed by the strangeness of the place, the outdoor burning of the dead on the steps leading down to the holy Ganges river, the pilgrims mingling on the steps along with water buffalo and orange-robed ascetics. She decides to spend a week in the more tranquil north, unintentionally leaving her husband to the charms of a former French colleague of his. But there is more at play here as her husband is snagged in a murder and embezzlement scheme, and the Hindu Gods themselves get involved in the fates of our lovers. Volume 1 of the First Kiss Mysteries

Books in the Else First Kiss Mystery Series:

• BATHING WITH THE DEAD (#1)
• HER HEART IN RUINS (#2)
• ALL THAT WE TOUCH (#3)

Else’s fiction has been broadcast by the BBC World Service, included in a literary review published by the Sorbonne in Paris, published by Galley Beggar Press and shortlisted for a Shakespeare & Company Prize.

Ray Else's fiction has been broadcast by the BBC World Service, published by Galley Beggar Press, and short-listed for a Shakespeare & Company prize. Ray has a B.S. in Computer Science and an M.A. in Technical Instruction/Film History. He speaks English, Spanish and French, and besides the states he has lived in Mexico and France. Ray has worked several jobs, from store clerk, to switcher at a television station, to software engineer for IBM. He is happily married with 4 grown kids and 12 grandkids. He enjoys traveling the world to visit friends and find new stories, occasionally rock-hounding, as shared on his website, rayelse.com.