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RIGHT UP YOUR ALLEY
by Sharolett Koenig
A Tim MacCulfsky Mystery
ISBN 0-9700458-3-2 (301 pages) $19.95
It's one year later and nineteen-year-old Tim MacCulfsky is a private investigator in training under the mentoring guidance of his partner, retired police detective Brent Weaver. Specializing in missing persons and adoptee searches, Tim takes on a case that is right up his alley--find the grand prize winner of a sweepstakes sponsored by a large New York travel agency. For incentive, Tim's fee is part of the significant cash prize, which decreases each day that passes without finding the winner.
Starting with a dead roommate, Tim follows a trail of false identities and computer rip-offs that leads him to fall head-over-heels in love and...forget (?) the unforgettable Rhonda Ghent. But, Tim learns too late, he should've read the small print in his contract. He must find the winner alive in order to collect his fee.
Excerpt from Chapter 13:
"Take my advice, Kid. Play it smart. Don't get married when you're old."
"Like you?"
"Don't wait until her parents are on Social Security and can't afford a wedding," Brent continued. "This whole thing is gonna cost me a fortune, which I can't afford either. I thought she'd be satisfied with an expensive ring. She's out right now ordering an expensive wedding dress and making all kinds of expensive arrangements. Do you know she's planning a honeymoon?--like it'll be our first night, or something."
Tim spurred him on with, "Really?" and felt no remorse.
"And she even wants a church wedding. Can you believe it? After spending every last penny I have on it, she wants to get married in front of God and everybody."
Tim shook his head to keep from bursting with laughter.
Brent, believing he had a sympathetic ear, added, "My first marriage was quick and simple. Just a justice of the peace. No flowers. No cake. No invitations. No nothing. Now that was a wedding!"
"You're divorced," Tim reminded him.
"And another thing, Kid," Brent said. "Don't ever get divorced."
"Like you?"
"Lousy divorce cost more than a wedding. And the payments never end."
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Author Biography:
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Sharolett Koenig, a graduate of The
Institute of Children's Literature, is a freelance writer whose work has
appeared in Instructor Magazine, Pets Today Magazine, and Shuttle,
Spindle & Dyepot Magazine, and the poetry anthology Visions and
Beyond. She is a member of the American
Christian Writers Association, Mystery
Writers of America, Romance
Writers of America, and she is serving as secretary of the Mid-Michigan
chapter of Romance Writers of America. She has begun a series of young adult mystery novels
the first of which is PLIGHT OF THE CHILDREN. RIGHT UP YOUR ALLEY is the
second. And ONE ON NOTHING, the third, was released March 2002.
Sharolett bases her writing on experiences gained
while homeschooling her five children; and she enjoys her two grandchildren,
caring for a private collection of over 200 bonsai trees, speaking at
writing classes and seminars, and backpacking at Isle Royale.
$1.00 from the sale of each copy of Plight of the Children will be
donated to The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. One
child in six featured in the National Center for Missing & Exploited
Children photo-distribution program is recovered as a direct result of someone
in the general public recognizing the child in the picture and notifying
authorities. To help law enforcement in the search for missing
children, NCMEC offers a 24-hour, toll-free Hotline:
1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678).
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