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    Live Free or Tri: A Collection of Three Short Mystery Stories
    Live Free or Tri: A Collection of Three Short Mystery Stories
    Live Free or Tri: A Collection of Three Short Mystery Stories
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    Live Free or Tri: A Collection of Three Short Mystery Stories

    By Judy Penz Sheluk

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    A collection of three short mystery stories by Judy Penz Sheluk, author of the Glass Dolphin Mystery and Marketville Mystery series.

    Death and Deception
    Appearances are often deceiving and that is the underlying premise in this collection of short crime fiction:
    In "Live Free or Die," naive 21-year-old Emmy falls hard for 31-year-old Jack, an efficiency expert from New Hampshire who is not all that he seems. 
    In "Murder in the Marsh," cyclist Carrie Anne Camack discovers more than she bargained for in the fertile farmlands of Ontario's Holland Marsh. 
    In the final story, "The Cycopaths," a triathlon team's open-water swim training in Collingwood, Ontario, has deadly consequences. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSuperior Shores Press
    Release dateNov 4, 2019
    ISBN9780995000704
    Live Free or Tri: A Collection of Three Short Mystery Stories
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    Judy Penz Sheluk

    A former journalist and magazine editor, Judy Penz Sheluk is the bestselling author of Finding Your Path to Publication and Self-publishing: The Ins & Outs of Going Indie, as well as two mystery series: the Glass Dolphin Mysteries and Marketville Mysteries, both of which have been published in multiple languages. Her short crime fiction appears in several collections, including the Superior Shores Anthologies, which she also edited. Judy has a passion for understanding the ins and outs of all aspects of publishing, and is the founder and owner of Superior Shores Press, which she established in February 2018. Judy is a member of the Independent Book Publishers Association, Sisters in Crime, International Thriller Writers, the Short Mystery Fiction Society, and Crime Writers of Canada, where she served on the Board of Directors for five years, the final two as Chair. She lives in Northern Ontario. Find her at www.judypenzsheluk.com.

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      Live Free or Tri - Judy Penz Sheluk

      Live Free or Tri

      Live Free or Tri

      A collection of three short stories

      Judy Penz Sheluk

      Superior Shores Press

      Contents

      Also by Judy Penz Sheluk

      Live Free or Tri

      Murder in the Marsh

      The Cycopaths

      About the Author

      Also by Judy Penz Sheluk

      Glass Dolphin Mysteries

      The Hanged Man’s Noose

      A Hole in One

      Marketville Mysteries

      Skeletons in the Attic

      Past & Present

      A Fool’s Journey

      Anthologies

      The Best Laid Plans: 21 Stories of Mystery & Suspense (Editor)

      Short Stories

      Plan D (The Whole She-Bang 2; The Best Laid Plans)

      Live Free or Tri (World Enough and Crime)

      Beautiful Killer (Flash and Bang)

      Saturdays with Bronwyn (The Whole She-Bang 3)

      Goulaigans (The Whole She-Bang 3)

      This is a work of fiction. Names, places, and events described herein are products of the author’s imagination, or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locations, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Live Free or Tri: A collection of three short mystery stories

      Copyright @ 2016 Judy Penz Sheluk (www.judypenzsheluk.com)

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      Proofread by Jennifer Grybowski

      Published by Superior Shores Press

      ISBN eBook: 978-0-9950007-0-4

      *Live Free or Die is included in WORLD ENOUGH AND CRIME (October 2014, Carrick Publishing)

      First Edition: January 2016

      Second Edition: January 2019

      Third Edition: April 2019

      For Jenn and Michelle: thanks for everything

      Live Free or Tri

      The first time any of us met Jack he was wearing a dark green suit. That seemed odd to me. It wasn’t St. Patrick’s Day, and the office attire was mostly business casual, with an emphasis on the casual. This was especially true in cubicle hell, where an overworked staff of four plus supervisor made collection calls and routinely canceled insurance policies for non-payment.

      Later, Jack would confide in me that the green suit was his only suit. Wear a green suit and everyone assumes you must own a black one, a brown one, and a blue one, he had said, and I had to admit it made sense. But the first time I met him, my only thought was, Green suit, can’t be from around here.

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