About Murder Strikes A Chord

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Murder Strikes a Chord: A Pearly Girls Mystery
Cozy Mystery
1st in Series
Setting – Virginia
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Keylight Books; 1st edition (March 18, 2025)
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1684426561
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1684426560
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1684426502
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1684426508
Digital ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0DPL47ZV5

Veronica Mars meets The Golden Girls as event planner Cassidy Jamison and her four sixty-year-old employees race to solve a rocker’s murder before the curtains close on their show and their business.

When Cassidy Jamison inherited her late grandmother’s event planning business, she also inherited her grandmother’s friends—four sixty-year-old women known around town as the Pearly Girls—as part-time employees. Now Cassidy barely has time to breathe between spending every waking hour trying to keep her business afloat and the Pearly Girls out of trouble and focused on event planning.

So when she lands a three-weekend event complete with a chart-topping band, she’s thrilled. Until she and her chihuahua mix Elvis find the body of the Weathermen’s lead singer in her venue’s koi pond. With the help of the not-so-helpful Pearly Girls, Cassidy must stave off the bad publicity, navigate the prying questions of the local police department, and solve the murder before the media frenzy shutters her business for good, and takes one of the Pearly Girls with it.

About Heather Weidner

Through the years, Heather Weidner has been a cop’s kid, technical writer, editor, college professor, software tester, and IT manager. She writes the Pearly Girls Mysteries, the Delanie Fitzgerald Mysteries, The Jules Keene Glamping Mysteries, and The Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mysteries.

 Her short stories appear in the Virginia is for Mysteries series, 50 Shades of CabernetDeadly Southern Charm, and Murder by the Glass, and she has non-fiction pieces in Promophobia and The Secret Ingredient: A Mystery Writers’ Cookbook.

 She is a member of Sisters in Crime: National, Central Virginia, Chessie, Guppies, and Grand Canyon Writers, International Thriller Writers, and James River Writers, and she blogs regularly with the Writers Who Kill.

Originally from Virginia Beach, Heather has been a mystery fan since Scooby-Doo and Nancy Drew. She lives in Central Virginia with her husband and a pair of Jack Russell terriers.

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💬 My Thoughts 🗨️

Cassidy and her group of older coworkers are a fun crowd, making this series start really enjoyable. The characters are super relatable, and the plot centers on a murder that happens at a music festival. All in all, this book was a charming quick read, and I would definitely pick up the next one if I had the opportunity.

I would like to thank the author and Lori from Great Escapes Book Tours for allowing me to read and review this book.

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