by Annette SchifferPublish: Oct 10, 2018Series: Oak Grove ChroniclesCrime FictionMystery
Book Overview
Annette and Mike Schiffer are writing murder mysteries. Books in our series, The Oak Grove Chronicles, will appeal to a wide audience of fiction readers, but are a special delight for people who enjoy unusual crimes, unusual criminals, and the process of investigation. Our first book is A Buzz About Campus and is set in the fictional county of Oak Grove, California. The university's provost dies in his office, victim of an apparent heart attack. But the autopsy reveals that he was murdered--by a means most diabolical. Sheriff Sydney Harding assigns her Senior Detective, Alan Bluestein, to investigate the crime. He collaborates with Professor Laura Mancini, a forensic archaeologist at the university. Bluestein and Mancini enjoy an evolving relationship based on mutual trust and respect, even though lust simmers just below the surface. Reluctantly, they pledge to keep their relationship "strictly business." The investigation takes many twists and turns, but the pair eventually solves the crime. Along the way, A Buzz About Campus provides humorous insights into faculty life and pokes at administrators. The book is a warmhearted blend of silly and serious, its sparkling prose a delight to read.
BIOGRAPHY While trying to figure out what she wanted to be when she grew up, Annette Schiffer found happiness and fulfillment in her personal life as a wife, mother, and now grandma, and in her professional "do gooder" life as a La Leche League Leader, wildlife rehabilitator, and college and career advisor in Tucson, Arizona, and Washington, D.C.
Now retired, Annette collaborates with husband Michael Brian Schiffer, and is channeling her vivid imagination and insights into human behavior through mystery novels.
The Schiffers' books appear in the series, The Oak Grove Chronicles. Book 1, A Buzz About Campus, Book 2, Holy Smoke!, and Book 3, A Tough Nut to Crack have been published and are available in paperback and ebook at amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com. Book 4, Vintage Crimes, is now available in paperback, Kindle and Nook on amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. Book 5, Family Loyalty, is now available in paperback and ebook! Book 6, All's Well That Ends Well?, is also available through amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. It is the final book of this series.
Tightly plotted, the cozy mysteries are a warmhearted blend of serious and silly, delightful cozies.
Michael has branched out on his own (with lots of input from Annette) and has published Scoop of the Century, Down the Rabbit Hole, Diamonds Are Forever, and We Are the Aliens: An Archaeological Odyssey. These are all mysteries with interesting plots and characters, and in some, a touch of science fiction. We hope you'll enjoy them too!
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