Environmental cop Nikki O’Connor is living large: she’s survived a category-5 hurricane, been promoted, and her new husband has just given her an antique brooch containing a rare purple pearl that turns out to be worth at least a million bucks. That's when the bottom drops out. A psycho Nikki rejected back in high school skips parole, butchers his jailhouse bride, and starts stalking Nikki—setting up web-cams to record her most intimate moments. And while Nikki is at work, someone murders her husband and a local burnout kid who drives his mom’s pink Mary Kay minivan does a Columbine on his high school. Meanwhile, Nikki spirals into a tailspin of overwhelming grief, despair, and bulimia. It takes three people: her best girlfriend, a 300-lb. ex-Marine, and a skinny young waif with magenta hair to pull her out of it, but once she’s back—the unlikely foursome goes after the killer, with a vengeance.

You can now read CHAPTER ONE by clicking on the EXCERPT lighthouse!

In the meantime, those who haven't read Mystic Island yet are vigorously invited to pick up a copy online or order it from your favorite bookstore. Just a reminder, Mystic Island is about Nikki O'Connor, an attractive single mom, who also happens to be an intelligent and resourceful environmental cop. She's competing with a U.S. Presidential candidate in the search for a handwritten letter FDR sent to Hitler back in 1945. During her quest, Nikki encounters lobster rustlers, passionate romance, betrayal, murder, a catastrophic hurricane, self-awareness and plenty of laughs.

Mystic Island propels the reader into a tale of fiction laced with historical overtones in the same spirit as The DaVinci Code. However, it unfolds from the perspective of a strong female lead and is peppered with plenty of humor and romance, much like a Janet Evanovich novel. And you know what? In spite of the author's exceptional testosterone level, Mystic Island even inches toward "chick lit". He swears he's a guy, though. Last time he looked, anyway.

Regardless, you can find out more than you need, or maybe even want to know about Mystic Island and its fledgling author by just clicking on the cute little lighthouse buttons to your left. You might be best served by clicking REVIEWS & BLURBS but click any buttons if they interest you. What the hell, click 'em even if they don't!

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 THE NEXT NIKKI O'CONNOR MYSTERY:

MYSTIC FEAR

Don & Marlene Snyder, co-authors of RI Adventure Diving I,II

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