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Originally Posted by sufue
Bloody Twist by Carolina Garcia-Aguilera is $2.99 at Amazon. I don't know if you'd call this a sale, but $2.99 for a full length book (270 pages) seems pretty reasonable to me.
This seems to be another one of those cases where a long-inactive series is revived by an author now that digital publishing is making things easier.
With that said, I read several of the earlier books in this series in DTB back in the late 90's/early 00's and enjoyed them a lot. Looking back, I think these could be described as early chick-lit mysteries, although I'm not sure that term existed back then. I found the Cuban-American protagonist, Lupe Solano, engaging, and I enjoyed the Miami settings, especially since, at that time, I had a business trip to Miami once a year, so some of the atmosphere and culture seemed familiar.
Although sometimes an author's years-later return to a series doesn't work, sometimes it does too. I am a bit concerned that the blurb (see below) about the book isn't particularly well written - but for $2.99, and with a previous history of liking the author's books, I'm going to give this one a try.
Link is here, hopefully affiliate-link free, since I started by typing in www.amazon.com by hand, and then searching from there:
http://www.amazon.com/Bloody-Twist-S...s=bloody+twist
Blurb:
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The reviews don't look promising (and at least one from a fan of her earlier books), with comments like "not proofread" and "liked the least". Also, she has only gone so far with her "publishing company" to buy the domain name and create a wordpress blog (which has the default setup and first post of all such blogs - not even a single world about the books or her):
http://miramarpublishing.com/