Showing posts with label Murder on Warbler Weekend. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Murder on Warbler Weekend. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Jan Dunlap - A Bobwhite Killing


A Bobwhite Killing

by Jan Dunlap

Birders always hope for a rarity when they go on a Birding Weekend, but when Bob White finds the weekend leader sporting bullet holes in his chest, he realizes that more than an unusual bird is at stake. To make matters worse, Bob must contend with a lost love, big cats, ATV enthusiasts, and small-town intrigue as he sets out to find a killer, along with an elusive Northern Bobwhite, in Minnesota’s Fillmore County. In this third Birder Murder mystery, Bob discovers that the past and present can collide in surprising ways to shape the future…assuming he’ll survive the weekend and still be around to see it.

BIOGRAPHY
Jan Dunlap is the author of the Bob White Birder Murder Mystery series, which combines serious bird watching, dead bodies, environmental issues, and humorous complications! The first two novels in the series, The Boreal Owl Murder and Murder on Warbler Weekend, have attracted a wide range of readers, from birders to mystery lovers of all ages. While she is pleased to have received numerous accolades and Minnesota Book Award nominations for the novels, Jan thinks her greatest accomplishment is juggling – she is an author, speaker, adjunct professor, and mother of five children. A former high school career center manager, she often finds bits of real life sneaking into her Bob White books. She lives in Chaska, Minnesota, and welcomes visitors to her website at www.jandunlap.com.

BOOK LAUNCH
Saturday, Sept. 18, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Once Upon a Crime
604 W. 26th Street
Minneapolis, MN 55404

SIGNINGS/EVENTS
Tuesday, Oct. 12, 7:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Book talk
Minnetonka High School
Minnetonka Community Ed

Thursday, Oct. 21, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Book signing
Wild Birds Unlimited
Duluth, MN 1:30-2:30 pm

WEBSITE
www.jandunlap.com

BOOKS IN SERIES
The Boreal Owl Murder (2008)
Murder on Warbler Weekend (2009)
A Bobwhite Killing (2010)

PUBLISHER
North Star Press, Inc. of St. Cloud

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/