Join me in welcoming Maris Soule to the blog today! Her book, A KILLER PAST, is being re-released a an ebook, and I’m very excited!
Plus, I’ll be doing a little giveaway, which you can enter below.
Maris, thanks for celebrating the ebook reissue of A KILLER PAST with us today.
Thank you, Alyssa, for inviting me to announce the re-issuing of A KILLER PAST as an eBook. For the past two years I’ve been checking Amazon and the other on-line bookstores, hoping to see A KILLER PAST once again available as an eBook. Every time I looked, the only buy option was for the paperback edition. Which is great, if the reader wants to buy a paperback, but not so great if the reader prefers eBooks or buys them because it’s easier to carry an eReader than a stack of books.
I loved writing this book. It’s my answer to the question: What would someone who was an assassin in her twenties be like in her seventies?
This is Mary Harrington’s story.
For forty-four years Mary, now a widow, has been living in Rivershore, a small, rural town in southwest Michigan. No one knows about her past, and that’s the way she wants to keep it. Over the years she married Harry Harrington, the local dentist, and raised a son, Robert, who is a financial advisor and overly concerned about his mother’s ability to take care of herself. Robert’s wife Clare, who is into genealogy, wants to know more about Mary’s family. Problem is the family she’s told them about never existed. Also, Mary’s eighteen-year-old granddaughter, Shannon, wants Mary to take her to Paris, and Mary knows that would be a big mistake.
Her hope for anonymity ends the night before Halloween, when her car breaks down two blocks from her house and two gang members try to mug her. She should have simply let them take her purse. Instead, Mary discovers she hasn’t forgotten the months of training she went through in her twenties.
As Detective Jack Rossini investigates the incident, Mary denies being the one who put the two boys in the hospital; nevertheless, he’s sure she was involved, and the more he comes in contact with Mary, the more he’s convinced she’s hiding something, especially when his inquiries result in an order from the FBI to drop his investigation.
As I wrote A KILLER PAST, I had fun researching the types of weapons Mary would have been trained to use as an assassin. I then had to figure out if she could (or should) try to use them to protect herself as she faced the gang members looking for retaliation and a man from her past who wants her dead. Her afternoon practicing with the kubotan she’s had hidden in her cellar for forty-four years was fun to write. The weapon left her with several bruises which she has trouble explaining to her son, who already thinks she needs to move into a retirement home.
Available Now As An Ebook!
If you’d like to read about Mary Harrington and her efforts to keep her past a secret and yet survive, it’s now available now as an ebook or as a paperback.
Or read for free with Kindle Unlimited!
Giveaway
To celebrate the release of A KILLER PAST as an ebook, I’m giving away an ebook copy of THE CROWS, A PJ Benson Mystery. All you have to do to enter is tell me your favorite mystery book or movie. That’s it!
Open to US and International entrants 18 years or older. Winner to be chosen by random . org on Thursday, October 29.
About Maris Soule
Maris Soule has had thirty books published, ranging from romance and romantic suspense to mystery and thriller. Over the years, her books have won and placed in more than a dozen contests. Born and raised in California, she was working on a master’s degree in art history when she met and married her husband. She taught high school art and math for eight years before turning to writing full time. The Soules, who have two grown children and two granddaughters, now live in Michigan in the summer and Florida in the winter.
Visit her at: https://www.marissoule.com
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Thank you, Alyssa, for letting me write about Mary Harrington and the problems she faced in A KILLER PAST. And wow, thanks or including a giveaway with this blog. You are the best!
So glad to see this book as an ebook again. Loved the story. I found it amazing that a woman could keep her past a secret, even from her own family. Fascinating consequences. Wishing you the best.
Thank you, Diane. It was fun writing the scene where Mary wishes she could shock her snobbish daughter-in-law with the truth about her past. But, of course, Mary stays silent.
Best wishes on making this book available again as an e-book. I loved it. My sister loved it. My book club loved it.
Thanks, Annette. I’m glad the book club loved it.
I’m so glad the ebook is available again. Can’t wait to read it! As for my favorite mysteries, I’d say my favorite is the last one I’ve read. Right now I’m enjoying Jana DeLeon’s Ghost-in-law series (cozy mysteries with a lot of humor) and Colleen Gleason’s Stoker and Holmes series (YA Steampunk mysteries).