Snarque - The Koi Pond Kaper [Kindle Edition]

Charles Lyons (Author), Lisa Colvin (Author)

Book Description

Welcome to Snarque. A town so smug about its exclusivity its unofficial motto is "Have a nice day…. Somewhere else"

When the most prestigious midwife in Snarque is found dead in a million-dollar koi pond (her blood ruining the pond’s pH), David Windom, disgraced Beverly Hills PD public affairs officer now Snarque’s homicide detective has a problem. Does he cover up what he knows to be murder for the good of the town's reputation or does he try to solve the crime?

He's aided by Mattie the attractive local florist/exotic plant hallucinogenic purveyor. But even she could be a suspect along with a cross-dressing financier, a Lothario Gardner and others.

Scandal, sex, and schadenfreude. It’s all so deliciously precious.

Product Details

• File Size: 258 KB
• Print Length: 237 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Johnston Media LLC (May 20, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0081NXU96
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #478,583 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Keeps you guessing! May 20, 2012

By BookGirl3443

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There are so many people with hidden secrets and motives in this book that it kept me guessing right up until the end. Highly recommended for a fast, fabulous read!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Quickie June 11, 2012

By CTS

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This is a funny, quirky book about some rather odd people. There is quite a bit of sex, 2 murders, and a touch of spookiness. It is NOT for serious mystery fans. The ending is incredibly abrupt; I think they hit their word limit.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Pleasing/Entertaining October 11, 2012

By docgraham

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A great commentary on the excesses of upper class America and more importantly what kinds of people make up the "Upper Class". It isn't a complete list but it is a fun start. The author's absurdist take reminded me of Carl Hiassen. Not as good certainly but in the same vein. Actually if Hiassen and Hunter S. Thompson got together over a case of whiskey and wrote a novel, this would be their first draft which puts it ahead of an awful lot of writers.

More About the Author

Charlie Lyons was born in Middletown, Connecticut, but grew up in Newton Highlands, a Snarque like suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. A few years after high school, he made it to college, going to the University of Massachusetts at Boston. He graduated magna cum laude receiving a BA in philosophy which prepared him for everything and nothing in particular. So, after living in Kyoto, Japan for a year, he went to The George Washington University Law School.
As a lawyer, Charlie has worked as an assistant district attorney, a criminal defense attorney, an assistant corporation counsel for the City of Boston, and always, at least in spirit, as a trial attorney. He's written many film scripts and TV pilots. Among them are: Lucy Goes Ballistic; Alex & Monsters; and Blood Money. Snarque is his first novel
He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts with his wife and three cats and continues to write.