BINGLE BELLS COZY MYSTERY: MRS. JEFFRIES AND THE MISTLETOE MIX-UP- A GIVEAWAY

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MRS. JEFFRIES AND THE
MISTLETOE MIX-UP

A Victorian Mystery

BY EMILY BRIGHTWELL

ABOUT THE BOOK: 

Ring in the season with another Mrs. Jeffries tale of holiday homicide.

Under a bundle of mistletoe, art collector Daniel McCourt lies with his throat slit, a bloody sword next to his body. Inspector Witherspoon is determined to solve the case-preferably before the eggnog is ladled out on Christmas Eve-but of course he will require assistance from the always sharp-witted housekeeper, Mrs. Jeffries, who has a few of her own theories on why McCourt had to die by the sword.

TO SEE OTHER BOOKS FROM AUTHOR EMILY BRIGHTWELL, CHECK THE LINKS BELOW:

Mrs. Jeffries Forges Ahead, May 2011
Mrs. Jeffries and the Yuletide Weddings, November 2010
Mrs. Jeffries Speaks Her Mind, June 2010
Mrs. Jeffries & the Yuletide Weddings, November 2009
Mrs. Jeffries in the Nick of Time, March 2009
Mrs. Jeffries & the Feast of St. Stephen, October 2008
Mrs. Jeffries Holds the Trump, June 2008
Mrs. Jeffries & the Feast of St. Stephen, October 2007
Mrs. Jeffries and the Best Laid Plans, May 2007
Mrs. Jeffries & the Silent Knight, October 2006
Mrs. Jeffries Appeals the Verdict, May 2006
Mrs. Jeffries And The Silent Knight, October 2005
Mrs. Jeffries Learns The Trade, April 2005
Mrs. Jeffries Stalks The Hunter, October 2004
Mrs. Jeffries Sweeps the Chimney, January 2004
Mrs. Jeffries Pleads Her Case, April 2003
Mrs. Jeffries Pinches the Post, June 2001
Mrs. Jeffries Weeds the Plot, November 2000
The Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries, April 1996

           

              

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

"I was born in West Virginia, as the middle sister to Nanette and Linda. My parents moved the family to Los Angeles in the early sixties, and I graduated from Pasadena High School. After my high school years, I went to California State University at Fullerton and earned a Degree in American Studies.
 

On a visit to England in 1975, I met the Englishman who would become my husband, Richard. We were married in May 1976 and lived outside London. We returned to California in September 1977.
 

In 1988 I decided to launch a new career as a fiction writer. Although I was working in the shipping industry, and enjoyed my job, I wanted to explore my long-held desire to write! My life-changing decision was greeted with some trepidation by my husband! Oh, the English are so enthusiastic about their spouses trying something new!
 

I began by writing romances and became a member of the Romance Writers of America - Orange County chapter. After my entry in the "unpublished authors" contest run by this chapter was announced as a finalist - I was delighted, but the New York editor who read my entry was scathing in her criticism. I was crushed for a day or so, but it hardened my resolve to continue writing. It was my very next proposal that my agent sold to Silhouette and it was published under my pen name of Sarah Temple. I was thrilled - a published author! KINDRED SPIRITS was the published title but I always preferred my own working title :"BOUQUET OF WILD FLOWERS".

I wrote two more Special Editions for Silhouette but I preferred other kinds of fiction so when I was as if I would be interested in writing a Victorian mystery series for Berkley - I jumped at the chance to explore my love of mysteries. I called my brother-in-law, Robert, who lives in London and he found old,original London newspapers from the 1880s and a host of books on Victorian households. These books and newspapers were priceless guides to my understanding of the real Victorian world of Inspector Witherspoon and Mrs. Jeffries. That is why The Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries is dedicated to him. I have also written some Young Adult novels,which are no longer in print - as Cheryl Lanham - using my maiden name - which were fun to write because teenagers are so emotional and it was great therapy to switch from the lives of a Victorian household involved in solving murders to the angst of a contemporary California teenager! By some strange quirk of events, the Young Adult books sold really well in Norway - translated into Norwegian, I hasten to add. Sales in the United States were not as dramatic and the series was cancelled.

I quit my part-time job in October 2010 so I could write full-time.  I live in southern Orange County.  My children, Matthew and Amanda, are now grown up and have left home so there is now just me, my husband, and a black cat called "Kiwi". It is so much easier to write when you are not playing "Mom" every day as well. I look forward to writing more Mrs. Jeffries books and, maybe, start another series of mysteries. I feel very blessed to have such loyal fans"....in her own words, from Emily Brightwell's website. 

REVIEW OF MRS. JEFFRIES AND THE MISTLETOE MIX-UP: 

To read a review of MRS. JEFFRIES AND THE MISTLETOE MIX-UP from Emily Brightwell's website, go HERE.  

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