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A CHAR'S WORST NIGHTMARE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Clallam Bay, WA -- Big River Press announces the publication of R. J. Brown's THE DEAD HUSBAND: A Sally Sees Cozy Mystery.

Cleaning up dead husbands isn't in SALLY COLLIER's job description, so when she finds one half buried at the bottom of his garden, her work schedule gets seriously derailed.

She has history with MEL and RENEE BIRNBAUM, owners of the million dollar home overlooking Discovery Bay in Washington State and when her beau, Jefferson County Chief of Detectives GEORGE TULLOCK, warns her to remember what all she saw when she got there, her day turns into a walk down memory lane. From her post-WWII London childhood to training as a secretary and then emigrating to Chicago and citizenship; from being a working gal to a single mom; from heading west with her kids and finally finding a good life in picturesque Port Townsend.

Sally's proud of her mentor: "My Mum was a good char, she just didn't clean house with light heart. You know, have fun. Oh, quit sniggering! What's the first thing little girls play at? Anyway, my Mum taught me a family's home will tell you a lot about how they're getting along. For the past three years, the Birnbaums have been in trouble.".

After Sally connects with the Birnbaum's grown frantic daughter, CLAIRE, she has to face down an hysterical Renee and her celeb boss, ALAN HATTON.

As the mystery of THE DEAD HUSBAND unravels, Sally isn't shy about her memories, her love life nor the joy she finds in cleaning "her" homes.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
R. J. Brown emigrated from London to Chicago where she worked in the Civil Rights Movement with Rabbi Marx and Dr. King. On moving to the Pacific Northwest, she was Managing Editor of the Townsend Letter for Doctors, and then founded RebeccasReads.com. She is now a contributing writer for the Seniors Sunset Times on the Olympic Peninsula where she lives with her husband, the suspense-thriller author D. H. Brown. She is at work on her second cozy mystery in the Sally Sees series, The Concealed Bruise, and her next non-fiction entitled RAIN FOREST LIVING: Sketches from a Northwest home. The author's website is: www.rjbrownbooks.com

VITAL INFORMATION:
Title: The Dead Husband
Author: R. J. Brown
Publisher: Big River Press

Genre: Mystery, Cozy, Sally Sees, series

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: 294

RELEASED: April 2009

This book will be available to retail outlets through Ingram, Baker and Taylor and at most online book distributors.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Big River Press, P. O. Box 371, Clallam Bay, WA 98326
360-963-3112
business(at)bigriverpress(dot)com
http://www.bigriverpress.com

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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