Extract from Songbird by Gail Meath – Blog Tour

Today I am so excited to be hosting an extract from Songbird by Gail Meath. Thank you to Zoe-Lee from https://zooloosbookdiary.co.uk/zooloos-blog-tours for organising this tour.

Synopsis

It’s all fun and games, until someone gets killed.

Meet Jax Diamond, a sharp, sophisticated, skilled, no-nonsense private detective.  Or is he?  Glued to his side is his canine partner, Ace, a fierce and unrelenting German Shepherd whose mere presence terrorizes criminals into submission.  Well, maybe not.

But the two of them are a whole lot smarter than they look.  And they have their hands full when a playwright’s death is declared natural causes, and his new manuscript worth a million bucks is missing.

Laura Graystone, a beautiful rising Broadway star, is dragged into the heart of their investigation, and she’s none too happy about it.  Especially when danger first strikes, and she needs to rely on her own ingenuity to save their hides.

Join Jax, Laura and Ace on a fun yet deadly ride during the Roaring Twenties that takes twists and turns, and a race against time to find the real murderer before he/she/they stop them permanently.

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Extract from Songbird

Shortly after Laura met her girlfriends for breakfast the next morning, she spotted a picture of Samuel Sanders on the front page of the newspaper.  She pulled it closer and started reading the article.  “It was a heart attack.”

Jeanie leaned over Laura’s shoulder.  “Well, there you have it.  You never know when your time is up.”

“Are you reading about the playwright?” Margie asked.  “That’s a crying shame,

isn’t it?  He was a talented composer.”

“I saw Mister Sanders the night he died,” Laura stated.  “He left me a note asking me to meet him, and he looked perfectly healthy.”

“What?”  Jeanie practically fell out of her seat.  “No wonder that cute detective jumped to the conclusion that something more was going on between the two of you.”

“It wasn’t anything like that, Jeanie,” Laura defended.  “Mister Sanders just wanted to talk to me about his new script, the one I told you about last week.” 

Margie snatched her hand.  “What cute detective?  C’mon, doll, fill me in on all the gooey details.”

“Last night, a private detective came to my dressing room to question me about Mister Sanders.  It still doesn’t make sense why he would be snooping around asking personal questions if the poor man died of ill health.”

“The gumshoes in the books I’ve read are always digging around even after an investigation is over with,” Jeanie chuckled.  “That’s what makes them so good.  They usually come across a piece of evidence that the police overlooked.”

Laura read the paper again.  “The article says that Mister Sanders and his wife live in Manhattan.  I wonder what he was doing with a separate apartment on the Lower East Side?”

Margie laughed.  “I’ll tell you what he was doing.  What every married man in the city does when they get bored.  Fool around, that’s what.  You’re such a bluenose, Laura.  I grew up in Brooklyn, and your tiny town of Millbury is a far cry from here.”

Jeanie nudged Margie.  “I’m from Millbury, too, and we’re not backwoods.   But I agree that having his own apartment is pretty suspicious.”

“That’s not why he wanted to meet with me!” Laura spouted indignantly.

“Okay, doll, if you say so,” Margie kidded, patting her hand. 

“You’re getting yourself riled up over nothing,” Jeanie told her.  “The man died of a bad heart.  It’s not like he was murdered or anything.”

Author Bio – Gail Meath

Award-winning author Gail Meath writes historical romance novels that will whisk you away to another time and place in history where you will meet fascinating characters, both fictional and real, who will capture your heart and soul. Meath loves writing about little or unknown people, places and events in history, rather than relying on the typical stories and settings.

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