Medium Rare
Publication Date: December 2012
ISBN: 9781927454787
Genre: Humor/cozy mystery
Time Period: contemporary
Location: A beach town in Central Florida
Season: One Florida year
Author’s Name: Julie Eberhart Painter
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About Medium Rare:
Penny, sequential
character from Julie Eberhart Painter’s award-winning Kill Fee cozy, volunteers as a bereavement caller at a local
hospice. She runs into a whole new set of nutty buddies. Hospice workers,
subject to burnout, romp through the offices chased by a psychic medium, who
uncovers their life secrets with eerie accuracy. The hapless humans become
entangled in her predictions made in the mysterious Cassadaga, FL
Excerpt:
Barney Allison, the preacher with a secret travels to Cassadaga, FL to meet Celeste the psych.
Barney Allison, the preacher with a secret travels to Cassadaga, FL to meet Celeste the psych.
He parked in the old
hotel parking lot so no one he knew would recognize his car. Holding Celeste’s
address, he walked the three uneven blocks to her house.
It occurred to him if she were really psychic he wouldn’t have needed to make an appointment; she’d have been expecting him. He’d given a false name, both to test her and to protect himself. She’d told him to enter by the porch.
He looked at her shingle, an obtrusive piece of wood that made the street look like part of a gypsy camp. He walked to her porch door and knocked. A cardboard sign on the screen read, “If you do not have an appointment, please take a seat on the porch.”
It occurred to him if she were really psychic he wouldn’t have needed to make an appointment; she’d have been expecting him. He’d given a false name, both to test her and to protect himself. She’d told him to enter by the porch.
He looked at her shingle, an obtrusive piece of wood that made the street look like part of a gypsy camp. He walked to her porch door and knocked. A cardboard sign on the screen read, “If you do not have an appointment, please take a seat on the porch.”
Barney pulled open
the screen door, stepped onto the porch and knocked on the inside door.
An older woman, not
in the least scary looking, came to open it. “Come in, Henry.
The name he had given
her unsettled him.
“Come this way, we’ll
talk in the back.”
Her voice was
soothing even though it cracked with age. He followed her through the house to
a glassed-in porch with a view of myrtle trees. Spanish moss dipped toward the
windows swinging in the breeze. He could smell the tinny odor of vegetable soup
coming from the kitchen, unmistakably Campbell’s. The whole house reeked of
canned tomatoes and decay.
She turned to face
him, her clear blue eyes so much younger than her face. She smiled and took his
hands in her seventy-year-old-palms. Their eyes locked as she reverently
intoned: “God the Father, guide us and bless us as we seek the
truth.”
“Amen.” Barney
whispered, automatically.The sound of his voice made him wince. He hoped he
wasn’t giving anything away with that amen.
Author Bio:
Julie Eberhart Painter, a
Pennsylvania transplant now living in Central Florida, is the Champagne Books
author of Mortal Coil, Tangled Web,
and the 2011 Book of the Year, Kill Fee, and Medium Rare.
Julie reviews
books for a prestigious online romance review site, and is a regular
contributor to Cocktails,
Fiction and Gossip Magazine, an online slick. Bewildering Stories has published
nine of her flash fictions tales
Julie swims, plays
duplicate bridge, and reads—a lot. It was a duplicate bridge game in Central
Florida that prompted the first book in this Three Penny (amateur sleuth)
Mystery series.
Medium
Rare is a peek inside a “wild and crazy” character-driven hospice office. Think
of The Office on gallows humor.
Bilgewater, the foul mouthed fowl from Kill
Fee, has competition from a new mascot, Croakette, a Kermit like frog doll.
Croakette dresses in appropriate attire for Florida’s climate, such as a wet T-shirt
and biker babe leathers complete with a makeshift helmet for Bike Week in
Daytona. When “working” she might show up in a nurse’s uniform. When left in
the potted palm overnight, her golf balls drop off. She undergoes a breast
reduction. Hersey’s kisses replace the originals. One never knows what she’ll
be wearing, but it keeps the office laughing while the staff goes about their
bizarre lives. Medical people: doctors, social workers, and nurses love this book.
Find Julie on
www.facebook.com/
www.champagnebooks.com
Amazon.com
and other online e-tailers
Or, for
paperbacks lulu.com
thewritersvineyard.com
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Published-Authors-Network-84480?homeNewMember=&gid=84480&trk=EML_downshift_home&ut=2V-Y8nkUGC9lg1
Linked-In:
http://www.linkedin.com/search/fpsearch?type=people&keywords=Julie+Eberhart+Painter&pplSearchOrigin=GLHD&pageKey=member-home&search=Search
As
Maggie, Julie reviews books for Coffee Time Romance and More, and is a regular blogger
on http://thewritersvineyard.com/ , and a feature writer
for http://cocktailsmagazine.wix.com/fictionandgossip#!issue-14 an online slick. Her flash
fiction appears under http://bewilderingstories.com/bios/painter_bio.htm
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5 comments:
Wow! Nice post Rosalie, you make everyone sound so famous and by the look of all the listings and beautiful photo, Julie really is. I like the concept of her book and the great opening. Hope we get to meet her,one day.
Thanks Wendy...It would be great to meet Julie, and the other authors who have been kind enough to talk about their books.
Thank you, Rosalie, for inviting me to your blog and for helping shed light on my favorie subject.
To paraphrase Mr. Robert Fulghum, "Everything I ever needed to know I learned in hospice."
This book represents 18 years of exciting, ears-on research.
The psychic, plays the title role. Her people hang out in Cassadaga, FL. They actually sound like that. So,come on down.
I was surfing LinkedIn and saw your pic & short discription, and was quite interested in your link. It was a grabber. Very good! Curious as I am, I investigated further. Glad I did. I love your blog. Looks good and was very interesting to read. Congrats!
Respectfully,
Ann Mullen
Great post and an interesting excerpt. A great book from a great author for sure.
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