Author: M. E. Bakos
Book Title: Fatal Flip
Book Genre: Cozy Mystery
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Synopsis: Flipping houses can be fatal! When thirty-five-year old widowed Katelyn gets fired from Colossal Health, she takes friend Myra’s advice to “follow your bliss.” She becomes a Home Rehab Specialist in Crocus Heights, Minnesota.
Her ninety-day plan to turn distressed properties into cash and career fulfillment veers towards deadly when she finds a body in her project. Attractive, blue-eyed, muscular Sheriff Don Williams at first suspects Katelyn. After all, it’s her house.
Meanwhile, her ex-husband Eddy, (it’s complicated) is back in her life and sleeping on her sofa. One mystery leads to another when Katelyn’s snooty neighbor, Ariel, is discovered dead in her bathtub. Could any of the townhome residents have killed Ariel?
Between keeping her stray cat, Boots, in kibble, and herself in pizza and good coffee, Katelyn works survival jobs as she unravels the puzzle of who leaves bodies in abandoned houses, and why.
And while Katelyn recovers from losing Jake, the love of her life, she warms to the possibility of a new love with the handsome Sheriff Don.
About the author: M. E. Bakos has published several short stories in national women’s magazines. Her love of mysteries has led to writing cozies. Her first mystery short story, “Carpe Diem or Murder at the Carp Fest” appeared in the Festival of Crime, a SINC Anthology. Her second, “Perfect Storm . . . Perfect Murder” will be in Dark Side of the Loon, May, 2018 also a SINC Anthology.
She is an enthusiastic fan of home improvement shows and has done numerous home projects. She belongs to Twin Cities Sisters in Crime, the SINC Guppies Group, and is an alumna of the University of Minnesota. FATAL FLIP is her first cozy mystery novel. https://mebakos.wixsite.com/author