Uncommon Grounds

sandra balzo

Independent Mystery Booksellers Association Bestseller
Robert L. Fish Award-winning author
Anthony Award-nominated author Patricia Harper is dead, killed by a hot-wired espresso machine inUncommon Grounds, her very own gourmet coffee store! Maggy Thorsen wants to know who killed one of her partners. Maggy needs the store to succeed. Starting over after her divorce, she's quit her PR job to open the coffee store. And if things aren't already tough enough, she begins to suspect one of her friends is responsible for Patricia's murder. Maggy joins forces with Sarah Kingstown, Patricia's closest friend, to investigate her killing. Together, they uncover unsavory small-town politics, bribes, kickbacks, and rampant infidelity. Before she's through, Maggy's sense of right and wrong will be shaken to its foundations. For once in her life, she is forced to draw her own line in the sand, and be prepared to defend it.

Genres mysterycozy mysteryfictioncozyaudiobookmystery thrillercontemporarycrimemurder mysteryculinary

245 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,2004

Series

Maggy Thorsen Mystery

Literary awards

macavity award, anthony award,

Places

wisconsin,

This edition

Format: 245 pages, Paperback
Published: September 2, 2005 by Five Star
ISBN: 9781410402363
ASIN: 1410402363
Language: English

Characters More characters

David Harper

Patricias husbandmore...
Maggy Thorsen

a middle-aged former public-relations and event management guru for First National Bank in the fictional small town of Brookhills, Wisconsin, chucked the corporate life in when her dentist husband recently left her for his 24-year-old dental hygienist. Sh...
Caron Egan

Maggys initial partner in the coffee house Uncommon Groundsmore...
Ted Thorsen

a dentist who was Maggys two-timing ex-husbandmore...
Bernie Egan

Carons wealthy lawyer husbandmore...
Sarah Kingston

blunt real-estate agent extraordinaire and Maggys friend and sometimes sleuthing partnermore...

About the author

sandra balzo

Sandra Balzo is an award-winning author of crime fiction, including fourteen books in two mystery series--one set outside Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the other in the High Country of North Carolina. MURDER a la Mocha, the eleventh Maggy Thorsen Wisconsin coffeehouse mystery, will be released in January, and the series has been optioned for development as a TV series/film.

Balzo's books have garnered starred reviews from Kirkus and Booklist, while being recommended to readers of Janet Evanovich, Charlaine Harris, Joan Hess and Margaret Maron.

In addition to Twitter and her website, Sandy also hangs out at https://www.facebook.com/SandraBalzoM... and http://pinterest.com/sandrabalzo/