Wacky & Wild Mystery #7  April 2011 On Sale: April 5, 2011 Featuring: Edwina; Darla Denman; Debbie Sue 320 pages ISBN: 0061910147 EAN: 9780061910142 Trade Size $13.99 Add to Wish List Mystery Private Eye, Mystery Woman Sleuth Buy at Amazon.com A mystery to laugh with… I Can’t Make You Love Me, But I Can Make You Leave by Dixie Cash Darla Denman, the former Queen of Country Music, has trouble on her hands. First, her career ain’t what it used to be – she’s gone from big arenas to run-down bars and first-class jets to fourth-class buses. Second, that fourth-class bus has plum stopped working just outside of Salt Lick, Texas, and sure enough, there’s barely enough money to fix it. Third, someone has gone and murdered Roxie Jo Jenkins, her ex-husband’s new wife and her current pain-in-the-you-know-where opening act. Now Domestic Equalizers Debbie Sue and Edwina are on the case. These two best friends, hair dressers turned private eyes, are determined to help the singer they idolize while staying out of heap of trouble they normally find themelves in (and can’t you just hear their put-down husbands laughing at that?). A comeback tour ends with a former star in…

Q: Your newest book takes us back to Fool’s Gold, California. It’s a town with more men than women and yet you never seem to have a hard time working in smart, hunky guys. Tell us about Finn, the brooding pilot who makes our heroine Dakota swoon in ONLY MINE. Do you find it’s harder to write the male or female characters, and why? I don’t find it difficult to write from the male perspective. In some ways, it’s easier because men tend to cut to the chase more quickly than women. They think in straight lines, whereas we women take a circuitous route. One of the things I love best about writing is the freedom to slip into my characters’ heads and to look at the same event from different perspectives. I think it makes me more empathetic in real life, too. Q: When you first created Fool’s Gold and started writing novels based there, did you have upcoming characters–like Dakota and her sisters–in mind, or has that come since you created the town? How has the series evolved? I tend to think about a year ahead. So while I wrote the 2010 Fool’s Gold books, yes, I did…