The English Breakfast Murder, by Laura Childs:
Volunteer turtle watching takes a horrific turn for Charleston tea shop owner Theodosia Browning when she discovers the body of local antique expert Harper Fisk floating off a South Carolina beach in Tea Shop Mystery THE ENGLISH BREAKFAST MURDER. Theodosia and her tea master, Drayton, won’t rest till they discover who killed Drayton’s friend and fellow English Breakfast Club member. The two investigate Harper’s associates during a busy week of hosting special tea events and taping for a TV promo. But it’s during their participation in the charity Fashion Bash at week’s end that Theodosia unwittingly exposes the murderer.
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NOTE: The above is a sample pitch, categorized by type of fiction, that I wrote for instructional purposes only. This “pitch” was written after the book was published and was never used by the author or anyone else to actually pitch a book.
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2 thoughts on “Cozy Mystery The English Breakfast Murder”
My pitch – that I’ve been working on. Objective: literary agent. Your take on it?
A voice from the dead? An “Ode to Blackwell Wren” is the baffling tale of a professor – intimate of Gertrude Stein, Thomas Mann, Andre Gide – who flushed his PhD diploma down the toilet. Inspired by a Catullus poem, he adopts the “needle name” Philip Sparrow and descends into a world of bad taste and sleaze on Oakland’s skid row. Berkeley: ’68. Ground zero for race, riot, revolution, free speech, free love, and the atom bomb. Nick Haviland – art student, cinephile, opportunist, amoral voyeur – inveigles Phil into turning his tattoo parlor into a movie set. Actors? Outlaw bikers, white supremacist undercover cops, charlatan Satanic priests, Black Panthers, pimps, and car strippers looking for a tattoo. Only one problem: When Nick comes in on that foggy morning, Phil is lying in a pool of black blood on his speckled linoleum floor. Now, which path to take? The duck-it road – quick exit out the back and down the alley – or the twisted road along his reprobate mentor’s renegade past with a police jam and a bit of trouble thrown into the bargain. Nick chooses trouble and gets more than he bargained for…
Wow, Kurt, you really have a talent for noir fiction. Give me a little time to ponder this, and I’ll get back to you in an email. Meanwhile, my recommendation is to stay clear of tattoo parlors until this pandemic has subsided!