DENISE SWANSON P.O. Box 371, Wilmington, IL 60481

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SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST TURNS TO MURDER — AND ROMANCE

TART OF DARKNESS is the first book in her new CHEF-TO-GO MYSTERY series features Danielle Sloan, the happy owner of Chef-to-Go, preparing delicious, ready-made meals for hungry students attending the nearby university, as well as providing personal chef services and catering events for the local community. To help support her new business, she opens her home to a few students, renting them rooms and becoming almost like a big sister figure in their lives.

But just as Dani is relishing her sweet new life, the friend of one of her boarders is murdered, and Dani becomes one of the primary suspects! She'll have to scramble to clear her name and save her business before the killer reappears — perhaps to silence the new chef forever.

DEAD IN THE WATER is the first book in her brand-new Welcome Back to Scumble River series featuring New York Times bestselling author Denise Swanson's beloved setting and characters. For school psychologist Skye Denison-Boyd, there's certainly no place like home. When a violent tornado devastates her small hometown of Scumble River, she can't see how the community will ever recover — especially since town councilman Zeke Lyons appears to have perished in the twister.

LIONS AND TIGERS AND MURDER, OH MY is the sixth book in her Devereaux's Dime Store Mystery series featuring Devereaux Sinclair, the happy owner of the old-fashioned shop in Shadow Bend, a small town near Kansas City, Missouri. Opening up a dime store in her hometown of Shadow Bend, Missouri, Devereaux "Dev" Sinclair thought she'd left the wilds of city life behind her. But she's about to discover that even rural life can be beastly. . . New York Times Bestseller author Denise Swanson was a practicing school psychologist for twenty-two years. Her New York Times Best-Selling Scumble River Mystery series also features school psychologist Skye Denison.

SINFULLY DELICIOUS is the first book in her Delicious contemporary romance series, while GOOD GIRL OVERBOARD begins her Change of Heart contemporary romance series. Her books feature small-town heroines with lots of heart. The Change of Heart series continues with Books 2 and 3, LUCKY GIRL HITS THE JACKPOT and SMART GIRL SWEPT AWAY, as well as the Prequel Novella, SWEET GIRL UNDONE.

Swanson started writing after coming face-to-face with evil. She quickly decided she would rather write about villains than encounter them in her daily life. She was shocked to discover that getting a book published was nearly as difficult as vanquishing scoundrels. But ten years later, her books have been on The New York Times Best-Sellers List, the Barnes and Noble Mass-Market Mystery Best-Seller List and have been # 1 on the IMBA Best-Seller List.

For more information, please check her website — http://www.DeniseSwanson.com