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The Dead Husband:

A CHAR'S WORST NIGHTMARE: Cleaning up dead husbands is not in Sally Collier's job description, so when she finds one buried at the bottom of his garden, her Monday morning work schedule gets majorly derailed.

Sally has history with the owners of the multi-million dollar home overlooking Discovery Bay on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state, and when her beau, Jefferson County Chief of Detectives GEORGE TULLOCK warns her she'll have to do a "Sally Sees": remember what she saw when she got there, her day turns into a walk down a bad memory lane.

From being raised in post-World War II London, England to becoming a secretary and emigrating to Chicago, Illinois where she went from an eager-beaver office gal to a single mom of two chickadees; from heading west to California's Bay Area where she met Mel and Renee at a Human Potential Movement training, and started cleaning for a living. To moving on to picturesque Port Townsend and working in a doctor's practice, she's made a good life for herself, started Sal's Gals, her cleaning company, & found a good man to love.

Sally's proud that Charles Dickens wrote about her current trade in A CHRISTMAS CAROL and says of her mentor: "My Mum was a good char, it's just that she didn't clean with a light heart. You know, have fun. Oh, quit sniggering! Of course you can have fun cleaning house. What's the first thing most little girls play at? Anyway, she taught me that a family's home will tell you a lot about how they're getting along, and for the past three years, this one's been in trouble."

Sally tells her first mystery from the perspective of an immigrant and a business woman, and isn't shy about her memories, the joy she finds in cleaning her homes and her love life.

"There's never a dull moment in THE DEAD HUSBAND. It is so magical I wanted to take it to bed with me and cuddle it. I loved the characters, the stories, the situations, the wisdom, the scenery, the British pieces, the relationships, the love, the humor, the language. I was so excited that R. J. Brown shared a lot of herself and I found it all fascinating. It filled the book out and made it very real, in a fictional sort of way." Lynn Lott, M.A., M.F.T. Co-Author of THE SEVEN STEPS ON A WRITERS PATH, CHORES WITHOUT WARS and many more.

R. J. Brown lives in the West End of the Olympic Peninsula with her author husband, D. H. Brown. She is at work on her next Sally Sees Cozy Mystery and is a contributing writer for the SENIORS SUNSET TIMES. She can be found on www.rjbrownbooks.com, MySpace, AuthorsDen.

VITAL INFORMATION:
Title: THE DEAD HUSBAND
Author: R. J. Brown
Publisher: Big River Press

Genre: Mystery, cozy, series, Sally Sees

Trade Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-0-9798744-7-5
ISBN-10: 0-9798744-7-5
Price: $14.95 US
Binding: Perfect Bound Trade Paperback
Pages: 292

RELEASED: April 2009

The Books of R. J. Brown

Published April 2009.

The Dead Husband
by R. J. Brown

A Sally Sees Cozy Mystery

Cleaning up dead husbands is not in SALLY COLLIER's job description so when she finds one half-buried at the bottom of his garden, her Monday morning schedule gets seriously derailed.

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Published October 2008.

Standing The Watch
by R. J. Brown

When a prominent doctor in a Seattle hospital tells Lincoln Brown he has less than three months left to live; R. J. Brown's life changes. In the 89th year of his life, Lincoln chooses to return to his cabin in the rainforest of the Olympic Peninsula where his beloved Buddy dog awaits and where he can die at home in his bed, the way he was born, in the company of his family.

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