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Next in the Sherri Travis series



The third book in the series A Brewski for the Old Man tells the story of the return to Jacaranda of Ray John Leenders, the man who abused Sherri when she was a child. Back in town he's living with a woman who has a young daughter. Sherri doesn't want to get involved; it's none of her business - except, except - she knows the woman and her daughter and it's impossible to stay uninvolved.






Available in March 2010







Margarita Nights

Margarita Nights

 Fiction/Mystery   April 2008
McArthur and Company Publishing
Trade Paperback  978-1-55278-699-4  $24.95

Margarita Nights is a cozy with grit -- serving Jack Daniels instead of tea.

In a small Florida beach town, Sherri Travis is a bartender with attitude and a woman with an inconveniently murdered husband who turns out to be as much trouble to her dead as he was alive.

Sifting through the debris of Jimmy's life, Sherri finds more than a few people who wanted her lying, scheming, scam artist husband gone -- but which one actually did the deed?



Now available in paperback


Sex in a Sidecar

Sex in a Sidecar

 Fiction/Mystery   April 2009
McArthur and Company Publishing
Trade Paperback  978-155-278-7731  $24.95

Florida has two seasons. The rainy season brings hurricanes, the dry season delivers tourists - both can be nasty.

Sherri Travis is tending bar at the Bath and Tennis Club where two women have been murdered. A rich socialite, who comes in daily for her quota of side-cars, decides to commit suicide by being the next victim,but first she has to decide who the murderer is.

Sherri pours the drinks and listens to the stories, trying to make sense of it all.



Now available at your book store


Book #4

The fourth book Champagne for Buzzards takes place at Riverwood, Clay's ranch, where Sherri and Marley are cooking up a party to die for, and discovering gators and snakes aren't the only dangerous things in the swamp.




Additional Reviews
Good Morning America has issued it's summer reading list for 2010 and has picked the Sherri Travis Series in the top 6 Mystery Series for the year!

See the list and videos at Good Morning America Book List for 2010.


Amazon.com #1 Reviewer-Harriet Klausner   Review of A Brewski for the Old man

Connie's Reviews Blog Connie Gregory A Brewski for the Old Man Review

CBC News Cutting Edge Rosemary McCracken   A Brewski for the Old Man Review

Victoria Times Colonist- Moira Dann  A Brewski for the Old Man Review

Sherbrooke Record - Jim Napier  A Brewski for the Old Man  Review

Globe & Mail Margaret Cannon  Review of A Brewski for the Old Man

Hamilton Spectator-Don Graves  A Brewski for the Old Man   Review

Amazon.com #1 Reviewer-Harriet Klausner   Review of Sex in a Sidecar

Sherbrooke Record - Jim Napier  Sex in a Sidecar  Review



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Memberships

Mystery Writers of America
Crime Writers of Canada