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DAVIS WAY IS BACK! DOUBLE MINT, GRETCHEN ARCHER

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I have loved everything Gretchen Archer has written, from her first book “Double Whammy,” to this latest, greatest entry into the Davis Way caper novels.

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Davis is growing into herself. Still madcap, but madcap in a Sherlock Holmesian way. She knows what she’s doing. She knows why she’s doing it. She sees connections between seemingly random events. How they form a pattern. The problem is getting anyone else to see.

She and Bradley make a great team. They have that “thing” which makes husband-wife detective couples so much fun — the ability to communicate so cryptically no one else understands. But they “get” each other … and it may save a life or two.

It serves them well as the complex plot unrolls. Finding themselves living in the Bellissimo Casino itself (it’s temporary, isn’t it?), in the most hideous apartment imaginable. There’s a conference of bankers going on and Davis can’t get in. Not even for a quick security scan.

Why not? What’s really going on?

Bankers who have their own security people? Who look and act like thugs?  What’s going on with that super-secure vault? What does the apartment’s previous occupant and (shudder) designer, have to do with it? Has Fantasy gone nuts? Where is No Hair when you need him?

Mysteries within mysteries call for Davis’s clever mind and remarkable ability to see what no one else can see. Will anyone else believe her? Will they “get it” before it’s too late?

Welcome to another taut mystery and hilarious romp through the world of casino gambling, mysterious bankers, and sealed vaults. Not to mention gigantic heaps of money. Or something like it.

AVAILABLE IN KINDLE AND PAPERBACK.

Double Mint: An intelligently written, perfectly plotted, marvelously witty detective tale you’ll love from start to finish — and wish it would never end.

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12 replies

  1. rarasaur
    08/13/2015 • 02:40

    I’ve never read Archer, I don’t think, but I will now. I need a new author to kickstart me back into reading again. 🙂

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    • Marilyn Armstrong
      08/13/2015 • 12:55

      Gretchen is good. She is funny in a witty, snarky way. And she’s a really nice person, too. I liked her first book and helped a bit on the second as an editor. She’s got “it” … that special something that makes a popular author. I feel lucky to have connected with her.

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  2. nonsmokingladybug
    08/12/2015 • 08:37

    Ah Girlfriend, you bring me in trouble. My book wishlist for Christmas is turning into a Santa Letter 🙂

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    • Marilyn Armstrong
      08/12/2015 • 12:27

      Not only are Gretchen’s book really good, but SHE is really a great person. I started reading (and corresponding) with her when her first book (Double Whammy) came out. I helped her edit her second book (and there’s a “thank you” in the front matter to me) and have been following her with love and enthusiasm since. She and her characters have grown a lot. I don’t like the audio versions they’ve done … they seem to lose the humor. So she is one of the authors I read on paper or Kindle. I do love her work and I really do recommend it. Highly!!!

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      • nonsmokingladybug
        08/12/2015 • 15:58

        I listen to audio tapes in my workshop or when I torture myself on the treadmill 🙂

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        • Marilyn Armstrong
          08/12/2015 • 16:00

          I am very fond of audiobooks and listen to them while I work on photographs. But these books are better in print. They haven’t found the right narrator yet.

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          • nonsmokingladybug
            08/12/2015 • 16:47

            The right voice is so important isn’t it? I remember that we went to a disco when I was young. There was a guy standing on the other side, he was leaning against the wall. Oh, what an eye-candy he was. I was there with friends, but glanced at him once in a while (maybe more). Finally he got the message and he walked over to me and asked if I wanted to dance. He sounded like Donald Duck when he opened his mouth and I almost lost it. His sex-appeal flew out of the window. I danced with him and had to hold back laughter so hard.

            Poor guy :-). Same goes for audio books. the wrong voice and I am turned off like faucet 🙂

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  3. Soul n Spirit
    08/12/2015 • 08:17

    You convinced me to buy and read it.

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  4. Bantering Ram
    08/12/2015 • 07:27

    Now you’ve got me intrigued.

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