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    Margarita Nights

    By Phyllis Smallman

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    About this ebook

    Margarita Nights is a cozy with grit, serving up Jack Daniels instead of tea. In a small Florida beach town, Sherri Travis is a bartender 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?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateSep 27, 2011
    ISBN9780987803306
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    Margarita Nights
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    Phyllis Smallman

    Phyllis Smallman's first novel, MARGARITA NIGHTS, won the inaugural Unhanged Arthur award from the Crime Writers of Canada after being shortlisted for the Debut Dagger in the U.K. and the Malice Domestic in the U.S.. Her writing has appeared in both Spinetingler Magazine and Omni Mystery Magazine. The Florida Writer's Association awarded CHAMPAGNE FOR BUZZARDS a silver medal for the best mystery and her fifth book, HIGHBALL EXIT, won an IPPY award in 2013. LONG GONE MAN won the Independent Publisher’s IPPY Gold Award as best mystery/thriller in 2014.  Beach Kill won  Best Mystery/ Thriller at the Royal Palm Literary Awards 2017, Florida Writers Association.  The Sherri Travis mystery series was one of six chosen by Good Morning America for a summer read. Before turning to a life of crime, Smallman was a potter. She divides her time between a beach in Florida and an island in the Salish Sea. Visit her website at https://phyllissmallman.com

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    • 5/5
      What a fun book. Sherri is estranged from husband Jimmy. When Jimmy's boat blows up it is assumed that Sherri killed him because, well, who else would? Sherri has to do some detecting on her own to try and find out what actually happened. Is Jimmy really dead, or is he hiding? There are plenty of twists and turns to this mystery and a lot of really fun characters who populate Sherri's world. I'm looking forward to reading the next in the series.
    • 2/5
      This book, by a Canadian author, was recommended to me by an acquaintance at my monthly bookclub. The member raved about it and said that I must read it and I did, unfortunately it does not live up to its billing. A very easy read but the real mystery for me was how the author got this published in the first place.
    • 4/5
      Phyllis Smallman was kind enough to send me a copy of Margarita Nights, and I'm so glad she did! This was definitely a read-all-at-once book, which I did while on my Thanksgiving vacation last week.I was feeling a bit sniffly, and it was a good excuse to retire early, but stay up waaay too late.Sherri Travis describes herself as "white trash" (which is really just a persona she adopts when she doesn't want people to see how smart she really is). She tends bar at the upscale Sunset in Jacaranda, a small town in Florida, a job she's happy with because she can play golf during the day. When she hears that her estranged husand's boat has exploded with him on board, Sherri is at work, but a witness claims she was on the boat shortly before it blew up.Sherri knows she is innocent; in fact, she's convinced that Jimmy blew up the boat and absconded to escape creditors. Since she's the prime subject, she has a lot to gain by proving her theory, and she sets out to do so.Accompanying Sherri on her quest to discover what Jimmy was involved in is intriguing, interesting and ranges from hilarious to heart-wrenching. I'm looking forward to reading the sequel, Sex in a Sidecar, published just last month.