Trick or Treat with Gifts of Books

 #Halloween is coming. Most of us have already gained weight during our distancing period for COVID. More candy and cookies is the last thing we need. Why not make your treats this year-BOOKS? They could be new or used.

Here are two books published in 2020 that might make great Halloween treats. Both are scary (at least a little bit) but in different ways.

The first is DIRTY HOLY WATER. Life is complicated for Sara Almquist in this #romantic #mystery and psychological thriller. She's about to become engaged and leave for a vacation in #India when she becomes the chief suspect in the murder of a friend. Only the friend and her family, well to put it politely, have a couple of dark secrets. Sara soon realizes the difference between a villain and a victim can be small - alarmingly small, especially in a dysfunctional family. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0960028587

The second is A POUND OF FLESH, SORTA. In this #thriller, Sara Almquist receives a mysterious box contaminated with the bacteria, which causes the plague. FBI agents consider it a threat from gang leaders because Sara is a key witness at an upcoming racketeering trial. As a #scientist, Sara thinks the packet might be an attempt to focus attention on a potential for plague in the Southwest. Soon all suspect the package is a clue needed to solve the suspicious death of one employee in a meat packing plant and the disappearance of another man maimed in an industrial accident. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0960028560

       P.S. Prairie dog die offs in the #Southwest really are caused by the plague and a few people in the Southwest die of the plague each year. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0960028560

OR MAYBE YOU SHOULD JUST TREAT YOURSELF AND BUY BOTH

SCIENCE IN YOUR FICTION

Bug and I will be at the Farmington Public Library in Farmington, New Mexico on Thursday, October 17 at 6 pm.

As  professor emerita of the University  of Wisconsin, I'll talk on SCIENCE IN YOUR FICTION. You might be surprised all the ways that modern molecular biology and nanotechnology have crept into modern fiction.

Afterwards I'll sign copies of COMING FLU and MURDER: A NEW WAY TO LOSE WEIGHT.

Bug will supervise the event. He's used to being a pet therapy dog at UNM Hospital and the VA Hospital in Albuquerque. So he's used to crowds, especially of children.
As this picture suggests, he has a mind of his own. He's also the basis of the character Bug in my medical mysteries.

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