Back Against the Wall
About this ebook
Two council members support the funeral home director next door, who says a park will be too noisy. With the proposal’s fate in doubt, the mortician is murdered in his own mortuary. Solomon, worried he’s the chief suspect, appeals to Marianne and her friends to clear his name.
Working with former sheriff Rick Formero in his new private eye enterprise, the eclectic senior sleuths probe city hall politics, hidden agendas and the victim’s well-kept secrets. With every twist in the case, they wonder if they’re barking up the wrong tree. Can Marianne and company dig up the truth before one of them ends up in a coffin, too?
About the author
Barbara Barrett started reading mysteries when she was pregnant with her first child to keep her mind off things like her changing body and food cravings. When she’d devoured as many Agatha Christies as she could find, she branched out to English village cozies and Ellery Queen.
Later, to avoid a midlife crisis, she began writing fiction at night when she wasn’t at her day job in human resources for Iowa State Government. After releasing eleven full-length romance novels and two novellas, she returned to the cozy mystery genre, using one of her retirement pastimes, the game of mah jongg, as her inspiration. Not only has it been a great social outlet, it has also helped keep her mind active when not writing.
The Mah Jongg Mystery series is her first venture into writing cozy mysteries. After taking a short break from this series after the ninth book ended a few years ago, she is now back with Book 10, Back Against the Wall. Former Sheriff Rick Formero has left the public sector and is opening his own private investigations agency. The series still focuses on the four women friends and mah jongg players, who are now joined by the men in their life, and they are all planning to be part of Formero Investigations.
Barbara has also published seven books in the Nailed It Home Reno mystery series and three books in the Unscripted Detective series.
Barbara is a member of Sisters in Crime, SinC – Iowa, Twin Cities Sisters in Crime and Florida STAR Fiction Writers.
She is married to the man she met her senior year of college. They have two grown children, eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Now retired, she spends her time between Iowa and Minnesota. She earned her B.A. degree in History from the University of Iowa and her Master’s Degree in History from Drake University.
When not in front of her laptop creating her next story, she plays mah jongg, travels and enjoys lunches with friends.
