Description
The five Sun City Sluts-Roz Powell, Babs Booty, Ruby Jean Culligan, Paige Woods-Heyward and Jamie Miracle-forty-ish, fast, and full of hell, attend a writing workshop in a remote lodge on the Oregon coast, each hiding a secret she's afraid to spill. The first night a destructive storm hits, all power is lost, and one of their classmates, Orchid L'Toile, meets a fate they consider worse than death: bloody murder without adequate makeup while naked in the bathtub. They must find the killer or become victims themselves. Their sleuthing takes a few wrong turns. Roz falls in love and Ruby Jean falls--off a cliff. All the Sun City Sluts reveal their secrets and Paige, with a plan, patiently knits. And knits. And knits. But the Sun City Sluts solve the murder while living up to their creed: Men come and go, but girlfriends are forever.
About the Author
Marjorie Reynolds is an award-winning author, conference speaker, writing teacher, former movie-advertising executive and newspaper reporter. William Morrow & Co. published her two novels, The Starlite Drive-in and The Civil Wars of Jonah Moran in hardcover, and Berkley released them in paperback. The American Library Association chose The Starlite Drive-in as one of the Ten Best Books of 1998 for Young Adults. It also received a Barnes & Noble "Discover Great New Writers" award, and it was optioned for film. It was a Literary Guild alternate selection and a Reader's Digest Select Editions book. Rights were sold to seven countries. Her novels have received praise in The New York Times, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly and Booklist. She lives on Camano Island, WA, amid the eagles, deer, blue herons and other assorted wildlife. Susan Clayton-Goldner was born in New Castle, Delaware and grew up with four brothers along the banks of the Delaware River. She is a graduate of the University of Arizona's Creative Writing Program. Her novels have been finalists for The Hemingway Award, the Heeken Foundation Fellowship, the Writers Foundation. Susan won the National Writers' Association Novel Award twice for unpublished novels and her poetry was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Susan's novels are currently represented by Elizabeth Kracht of the Kimberly Cameron Agency. Susan's work has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies including Animals as Teachers and Healers, published by Ballantine Books, Our Mothers/Ourselves, by the Greenwood Publishing Group, The Hawaii Pacific Review-Best of a Decade, and New Millennium Writings. Susan shares a life in Grants Pass, Oregon with her husband, Andreas, a blue-eyed feline named Topaz, her fictional characters, and more books than one person could count. Martha Pound Miller is a writer based in Portland, Oregon. Her thriller manuscript, Virgin of the Desert, is in the hands of Marian Young, a literary agent, and is currently being reviewed by various publishing companies. Martha has won short story contests in Phoenix Writers Club and has had several short stories published. She is working on her fifth full-length manuscript. She is a current member and former president of Oregon Writers Colony, and a board member of Willamette Writers. She lives on Hayden Island in Portland, Oregon, on the banks of the Columbia River, with her dog, Sophie.
