Sunday, September 6, 2009

Jan Dunlap - Murder on Warbler Weekend


MURDER ON WARBLER WEEKEND
A Bob White Birder Murder Mystery

by Jan Dunlap

ISBN-13: 978-0878393213


For birder Bob White, May in Minnesota means three things: counseling high school students with spring fever, coaching the girls' tenth grade softball team, and finding every warbler species during spring migration. But when his mother discovers a body while they bird together on Mother's Day, disturbing items get added to Bob's seasonal list, among them murder, gambling addictions, dirty politics and controversial land deals. And then there's that possibility - thanks to one of his students - that he might be wearing an orange jumpsuit while he makes license plates in the state pen. In this second outing of the Bob White Birder Murder Mystery series, Bob quickly finds himself chasing more than warblers as he searches for a killer who's even closer to home than he realizes.

LAUNCH DATE
Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009 at 7 pm
Once Upon a Crime in Minneapolis

BIOGRAPHY
Jan Dunlap is a writer, teacher and birdwatcher, who crafts her Bob White Birder Murder Mystery series with humor and realistic detail. A mother of five grown children, she holds two master's degrees - one in English Studies and one in Theology - and teaches college English online for two universities. She lives in Chaska, Minnesota with her husband Tom.

PURCHASE
Amazon.com
Borders bookstore
Barnes& Noble bookstores
Select independent stores

OTHER BOOKS BY JAN
The Boreal Owl Murder
(first novel in Bob White Birder Murder Mystery series).

AWARDS and REVIEWS
Dunlap’s debut The Boreal Owl Murder received a silver medal in the 2008 Midwest Book Awards, along with nominations for the Minnesota Book Awards and the Northeast Minnesota Book Awards. Armchairinterviews.com said that “Dunlap’s quick wit and quick pace makes this book a delight to read,” and gave it a four-star rating. Midwest Book Review gave the book five stars, and noted “The plot is fast paced, the denouement fun.” North Star Press reports that book sales have been brisk to birders and mystery lovers alike.

WEBSITE
http://www.jandunlap.com/