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category: Fiction
published: Oct 2017
ISBN:9781459815353
publisher: Orca Book Publishers
imprint: Rapid Reads

White Sand Blues

An Ashley Grant Mystery

by Vicki Delany

tagged: women sleuths, amateur sleuth, crime
Description

First in a new series from award-winning author Vicki Delany.

When paramedic Ashley Grant finds her boyfriend in bed with another woman, she moves out of her house (okay, his house), quits her job and takes a new one in a tiny Caribbean country, the Victoria and Albert Islands. Ashley is thrown into the deep end when she arrives. Her new colleague picks her up at the airport in the island's only ambulance, which is called to the discovery of a body floating off the beach at the exclusive Club Louisa. The body is that of a man vacationing with his daughter and glamorous new wife. Coincidentally, Sally, the daughter of the dead man, recognizes Ashley from high school. She is convinced that her stepmother killed her father and begs Ashley to help her prove it. Before she can even unpack her bags or enjoy the view from her ocean-side apartment, Ashley is unwittingly dragged into a murder investigation.

This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for older teen readers and adults who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read!

About the Author
Vicki Delany is one of Canada's most prolific and varied crime writers, and a national bestseller in the U.S. She has written more than twenty-five books: from clever cozies to Gothic thrillers, gritty police procedurals to historical fiction, and novellas for adult literacy. Under the name of Eva Gates, she writes the Lighthouse Library cozy series for Penguin Random House. Her latest novel is Elementary, She Read, the first in the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop series from Crooked Lane. Vicki is the past president of the Crime Writers of Canada. Her work has been nominated for the Derringer, the Bony Blithe, the Ontario Library Association Golden Oak, and the Arthur Ellis Awards.
Editorial Reviews

"Crime writer Vicki Delany has served up yet another entertaining standalone in White Sand Blues…This one does not disappoint…A good choice, then, for that post-Christmas flight to warmer climes. "

— Jim Napier, Reviewing the Evidence blog

"Delany has a variety of series to her credit…and with this concise, easily comprehended mystery she launches a new line featuring paramedic Ashley Grant…Delany makes excellent use of this highly accessible narrative style, keeping her language simple while unspooling an intriguingly tangled plot."

— Booklist

"Fast paced and engaging…This action-packed mystery would make a good choice for teens who read below grade level or anyone else looking for a satisfying but quick mystery to read."

— CM Magazine

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