BUY A BOOK, WIN THREE MORE BOOKS !

I’m very close to my 1,000^th copy sold of The Surreal Killer.  Let’s have some fun with a little contest.  Buy the book and PM me on Facebook (www.facebook.com/RogerAndSuzanneMysteries) or e-mail me with the date and time you bought the book and your e-mail address.  If your purchase information matches the Amazon real-time report and you are the lucky reader who purchased copy #1,000, I’ll e-mail or message you back.  Pick any of the other books in the series and I’ll send you free copies of any one novel of your choice, the novella “The Body in the Bed”, and the anthology of short stories “Five Quickies for Roger and Suzanne”.  If there’s a tie, both winners will get the books.

A serial killer is leaving a trail of dead women across Chile, Peru, and Bolivia.  The gruesome corpses all seem to have died in exactly the same macabre way.  There may be a link to a small group of scientists who meet annually in different locations in the region. Roger Bowman and Suzanne Foster are asked by the local police to attend this year’s meeting of the group in Lima, Peru to try to find out who was present at the previous meetings when the murders occurred.  And the reader is off on a fast paced pursuit of the killer through Lima, Cuzco, and Machu Picchu in Peru and Chile’s Atacama Desert.  This Indie Book of the day Award winning psychological thriller is a true whodunit mystery novel set in an unusual and exotic locale.  Readers new to the series can enjoy this book as a stand-alone introduction to the region and to the series characters.  myBook.to/B007H21EFO

SOUTH AMERICAN MUSEUMS AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

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One of the things we never learned about when I went to school was the history of South America before the Spanish Conquest.  There was (and still is) a rich history, much of which we know about in some detail, culminating with the ascendency of the Incan Empire in the 15^th Century.  One of the benefits of wandering through Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Ecuador is getting exposed to this rich and fascinating history of pre-Colombian South America.

I THINK THAT I SHALL NEVER SEE, A WEVIEW AS PWETTY AS A TWEE

            I came across a review of “The Surreal Killer” on the book’s Amazon UK site (only £1.93 for the novel).   The reviewer thought the book was “too twee” for them.  I think this is one of those classic cases of Americans and British being separated by a common language.  At least for me it was a new word, which sent me quickly to the nearest dictionary.

            Before I share the definition with you, a word about the novel is in order here, I think.  The storyline is about a serial killer who murders in a particularly brutal fashion with a machete.  The murderer kills ten victims, with two of the killings described in detail in the novel.  Several other killings by others are mentioned in one place or another in the book, and another killing is described as it occurs.  All in all, an impressive body count I thought.

            “Twee” means excessively cute or delicate.  That’s an interesting way to describe multiple murder and dismemberment.  I find it difficult to imagine my hard-boiled mysteries as being delicate.  But that’s the fun of being a reader---in the end the book is whatever you the reader want it to be.