MEET A.M. IALACCI AT 4:00 PM (MST) ON THURSDAY, MAY 28TH!

A.M. Ialacci is an award-winning author who was introduced to sleuthing by Angela Landsbury’s character, Jessica Fletcher, in the Murder She Wrote television series.  She also devoured Nancy Drew books.  A.M. - Anna - dreamed of being a writer, but she entered the noble profession of teaching.  She left after 20 years and is now the proud author of three books.  Sight in the Dark is a novella in the Crimson Falls series.  Anna has published two books in her Crystal Coast series:  Diamonds, Teak, and Murder and Lenses, Lust, and Murder.  Her greatest love is her teenage son, who is on the autism spectrum.

I met Anna on Instagram.  With posts like these, I knew we were meant to be together:

I am thrilled to feature Diamonds, Teak, and Murder in the KC Reads Book Club!  You might want to ask about Trumpy yachts - I did.  Turns out they are quite rare.

Book cover and description are listed below.  Here is the Amazon link. Don’t forget to follow Anna at AMIalacci on FaceBook and Twitter and @amialacciauthor on Instagram. Message me on Instagram or FaceBook or click the email link on the first page of my website to let me know you’re participating.  Happy reading!

Upon the sudden deaths of her parents in a car accident, credit fraud investigator Allie Fox traded her fast-paced life in Chicago for a boatyard bookkeeping job in sleepy Carteret County, North Carolina. It is a huge transition, especially as she is now the sole caregiver for her younger autistic brother. But when the yard foreman mysteriously ends up dead at work, she can’t resist being pulled into the mystery.

Plenty of people had reason to want Ty Guthrie dead, but he had been kind to her as a kid, and even the sheriff’s department thinks there may have been foul play. Despite the possibility of alienating all of her co-workers and risking her livelihood, Allie becomes a consultant on the case to discover the murderer in their midst.

The deeper she digs, the more secrets she unravels, and the killer turns his sights on her, and even worse, her brother. At odds with law enforcement and the DA while a massive hurricane bears down on the coast, the only thing that matters is that her brother is in danger. With everything to lose and time running out, it’s up to Allie alone to stop the killer, or die trying.