Murder at the Bad Girl's Bar and Grill by N.M. Kelby
You take some "surf's up" magic realism, a dead body, a little Buddhist philosophy, a Barry Manilow impersonator with a dog named Mandy, and Danni "Queen of Scream" Keene (the unflappable goddess of horror films), along with the last living relative of the real Macbeth, who happens to be a circus clown, and put them all in the sleepy retirement community of Laguna Key. The result? A mystery that no one is interested in solving except a security guard named Brian Wilson, who can't stop thinking that "East Coast girls are hip."Good grief! N.M. Kelby is another hilarious Florida writer. Vultures, matching wines with fried candy bars, a Barry Manilow impersonator, and lots of bodies in a gated community. You can't make this stuff up. Oh, wait, Ms. Kelby did. Funny is good, and there is enough poignancy to prevent it from being a comic strip. Get the book and have a swell time. -- Otto Penzler, The Mysterious Bookshop, NYC
"Witty, evocative, and literate...M@BGB&G manages to be all three and a mystery, to boot. I was hooked from the first paragraph on. N. M. Kelby must be a fascinating woman 'cause she sure is a fascinating writer." -- Adrienne Barbeau, actress (The Fog, Swamp Thing, and Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death) & author (There Are Worse Things I Could Do)
N.M.Kelby is the author of Murder at the Bad Girl's Bar and Grill (Shaye Areheart/ Random House), Whale Season (Shaye Areheart/ Random House), In the Company of Angels (Theia/Hyperion), and Theater of the Stars (Theia/Hyperion). Her work has been translated into several languages and offered by The Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, and Quality Paperback Book Club.Her story "Jubilation, Florida" was selected for NPR'S "Selected Shorts," and recorded by Joanne Woodward for the CD Travel Tales, and reprinted in New Stories from the South: Best of 2006 (Algonquin Books). Kelby is working on the film version of Whale Season along with Actor/Singer Dwight Yoakam.
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