Dying for a Dance

2012 LEFTY AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST HUMOROUS MYSTERY

Lead-footed singlemom, Laurel McKay, agrees to learn a foxtrot routine for her bestfriend's wedding. After she trips her instructor, crashes into a pair of dancers and breaks the heel of her new shoes, she thinks her eveningcan't possibly get any worse. Then she stumbles over another dancer. Adead one. With her broken shoe heel stuffed in his mouth.

Theaction moves from the California Gold Country to Lake Tahoe as Laurelsearches for the killer amid the sequins and flying feathers of aballroom competition. Can she samba her way into the heart of thehandsome detective who has once again entered her life? Or will dancingand detecting prove to be a lethal combination?

Cindy Sample is a former mortgage banking CEO of a nationwide company who decided plotting murder was more entertaining than plodding through paperwork. She retired to follow her lifelong dream of being a mystery author. Her experiences with on-line dating sites fueled the concept for DYING FOR A DATE, a humorous romantic mystery set in the California gold country. DYING FOR A DANCE, a 2012 LEFTY AWARD finalist for best humorous mystery and winner of the 2011 Northern California Publishers & Authors award for fiction, is based on her experiences in the glamorous world of competitive ballroom dancing. Who knew dancing could be so deadly? DYING FOR A DAIQUIRI moves the action to the Big Island of Hawaii. Never has research been so much fun! Cindy is a former columnist for the Gold River Community Newspaper. She is a past president of the Sacramento chapter of Sisters in Crime and has served on the boards of the Sacramento Opera and the YWCA. She has two wonderful adult children who live too far away. Visit Cindy's website at cindysamplebooks.com Email her at cindy@cindysamplebooks.com facebook.com/cindysampleauthor   twitter.com/cindysample1