Judge vs. Nuts by Una Tiers (On Sale Now!)

Fiona Gavelle is living a dismal existence. She works in a dusty law office where she does more secretarial than lawyer work and her husband thinks she should work and keep house simultaneously.

One snowy night, Fiona learns she has been unceremoniously booted from her crummy job, has the final argument with her spouse, leaving her no choice but to move in with her favorite aunt. With little else to do, she drives a friend to the funeral of a judge she saw at a reception. Luck strikes, or does it, when her influential friend finds her a new job and Fiona ends up involved in the probate case of the dead judge.

Before long, Fiona begins to discover things that don’t fit, but blithely moves along trying to focus on building her own law practice. She puts her heart into her work and tries to ignore her personal life, especially the raspy-voiced detective determined to prove the judge was murdered.

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Meet the Author:

Beginning with Sherlock Holmes, Una Tiers (pen name) loves the twists and turns of mysteries. Initially she planned to be a famous author, (after the veterinary dream died down, that is,) but her father encouraged her to go into business.

The business plan didn’t bode too well and Una studied English literature, Speech and Theater. Later, she followed her new dream of becoming a lawyer. Little did she suspect how the practice of law had become a business.

Her favorite authors include Sue Grafton, Harry Mark Petrakis, Miriam Grace Monfredo, and Phyllis Richman. She wrote a story after a particularly unfair incident in court and it grew into Judge vs. Nuts. Keeping in mind her squeamishness, Judge vs. Nuts, is a nice cozy murder mystery suitable for mint tea and ginger cookies.

A Dirty Way to Die

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You think you’ve got problems? 

Sherman “Manny” Shepherd, P.I. has always been plagued by Shepherd’s Luck, an ability to sense when bad shit is about to happen. His most recent bout hits just before he sits down with his Vietnam vet buddy, Marty, and watches as Marty’s girlfriend Rita Hayward gets slammed to death in the mud by a well-stacked gal calling herself Screaming Eagle. 

Mired in shock, guilt, and a drunken haze, Marty coerces Manny, a local private eye with little on his plate, to figure out why Rita died in front of an SRO crowd watching and cheering at Peoria’s Heart of Illinois fair. After all, back in earlier days at Neelys Landing, Missouri, Rita was a star gymnast. So how could a simple Judo throw have killed her? 

No way is Manny going to jeopardize his tenuous, yet sensual relationship, with Tazewell County’s District Attorney, Lisa Shelton, to hang around half-naked, oiled-bodied beauties with names like Virgin Witch, Passion Queen, Midnight Fire, and Holy Terror, just to find out the obvious–Princess Lay-ya aka Rita Hayward just took a bad…okay, seriously bad header. 

But after hearing Marty’s heart-wrenching story of Rita’s journey to professional mud wrestler fame, and the haunting image of Rita’s single staring dead eye watching him, Manny decides to take the leap onto the St. Louis Slingers on-tour bus. Shepherd’s Luck bites him again, this time amidst boobs and bullets while he hunts down a scheming, sadistic killer.

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J. Douglas Knauer got her first critical review for a poem about her Peoria, IL Brownie Troupe. Multiple years later her first novel, Ecstasy Reclaimed by Brandy LaRue sold to Berkley/Jove, then came eight Illinois Press Association awards during a seven-year journalism stint. She has sold to several magazines, including Over My Dead Body. Her novel Bad Catholics, a Novel of Dark Suspense can be purchased directly from her. In 2010, Echelon Press will electronic publish A Dirty Way to Die, a Manny Shepherd P.I. novel.