The Tumble Lake thrillers are like “MURDER, SHE WROTE” meets “CRIMINAL MINDS”

While Louise and Ben, her black Labrador retriever, are out on their morning walk around the lake, Ben discovers a severed hand. He leads Louise to the rest of the body but they end up crossing paths with the masked killer. Assaulted and left for dead, when Louise regains consciousness, the body is nowhere to be found.

Could the killer be a member of the Guns, Poisons, and Daggers group of mystery writers who booked cabins for the upcoming weekend? Perhaps a writer taking novel research a bit too far? As the hunt for the killer and the missing body escalates, Louise must convince police she knows the murderer’s identity before she becomes the next body in the name of the killer’s twisted novel research.

About Author Shirley Spain

Shirley Spain is an animal lover, fitness instructor, and author of dark and chilling thrillers.

Shirley strives for what she calls, “plausible realism” in her books and garners critical details from her “police ride along” experiences as well as educating herself by attending and graduating from the West Jordan Citizen’s Police Academy and receiving training as a CERT member (Community Emergency Response Team). She was a West Jordan Police Department VIPS (Volunteer In Police Service).

“Thinking up and plotting the dastardly deeds of demented killers is a challenge,” Shirley says. “However the real fun begins when figuring out how my heroine–and her studly hero, of course–will turn the tables, outsmart the twisted murderer, and survive.”

In real life, Shirley has been a victim of human predators more than once, yet lives by the motto: No matter what horrible circumstance life hurls at you, choose to survive and become stronger because of it. She uses that maxim as a guide when writing her novels.

Shirley often wrangles friends into “role playing” when researching scenes and admits she “experiments” on herself and has done so with some of the tools her bad guys use, including duct tape, a variety of rope, and handcuffs. She even locked herself in the trunk of her car and attempted to escape. Hmmm. Knowing this, you may wonder how many of the stunts described in her books she tried on herself… but she’ll never tell!

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