SMART, BUT DEAD
“Will keep you guessing until the last page. Very well-written with an exellent story line.” __Obsessed Book Reviews
In SMART, BUT DEAD, Irrepressible amateur sleuth Aggie Mundeen, appalled by the prospect of slip-sliding into middle-age, enrolls at a San Antonio university to learn how genetics affect aging. She plans to provide youthful hints for readers of her column, “Stay Young with Aggie,” and is doggedly determined to stay young. Despite conflicts with her professor, she learns about the Human Genome Project and DNA, but she discovers a dead body. Detective Sam reminds her not to “help” with the investigation. Dangerously curious and programmed to prod, she races to solve the crime, winds up the prime suspect, and is on target to become the next campus corpse.                                            

Academics Can Be Murder

Smart, But Dead is a timely mystery!

TWO WOMEN RESEARCHERS WIN 2020 NOBEL PRIZE FOR GENE-EDITING TOOL

Emmanuelle Charpentier, Ph.D and Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D. won the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing the tool to alter DNA. This discovery led to the efficacy of vaccines for Covid 19. Scientific updates in the back of the book.

“The third book in a cute cozy series features an appealing heroine with a self-deprecating wit and a determination to never grow old.” – Library Journal

SHORT-LISTED FOR THE CHANTICLEER MYSTERY AWARD

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“Hurrah for Aggie Mundeen, an effervescent heroine who finds trouble wherever she goes even when the initial pursuit is purely intellectual. Aggie’s pluck, humor, intelligence and loving heart will always keep her young and always make readers smile.” – Carolyn Hart, Agatha Award-Winning Author of Ghost to the Rescue

“Smart. Aggie Mundeen is smart. But. But she’s also a little clumsy, irrepressible, and irresistible. Dead. She might well end up dead if she continues nosing around the university where her questions are not wanted. Smart, But Dead is the perfect combination of brains and heart. A tight mystery, an irrepressible heroine, and superb writing.” – James W. Ziskin, Anthony Award-Nominated Author of No Stone Unturned

Smart, But Dead features an impetuous, warm-hearted heroine, blessed with an insatiable curiosity, passion for learning and an unquenchable zest for life.” – Mystery People