Carrie McClelland has spent two peaceful, if at times boring, years as a general assignment reporter for a newspaper in Santa Rosa, California. When she's asked to take over the crime beat for a vacationing colleague, she looks forward to a little excitement. Carrie gets more than she bargained for, however, and soon she's in deep doo-doo. Her career may be heating up, but her life is in danger.
As the temporary crime reporter, Carrie quickly finds herself harassed by a robber who resents being accused of murder, and she's facing ethical conflicts concerning her homicide detective boyfriend.
Not only are the crime stories making life more exciting, but then her general assignment story about an animal rights group's crusade against foie gras creates chaos in the city. On the home front, her neighbor's vicious pit bulls bust into her yard and menace her west highland white terrier. The neighbor threatens her life, so should she call animal control?
Carrie's tossed into a world of gangsters, grifters, guns, and geese as she investigates another apparent robbery death while coping with her nasty neighbor, law enforcement, office politics, and a fugitive gardener.
It's trial by fire for her journalistic career and one hell of a week for Carrie.
About the Author: Sheri Graves is an award-winning journalist with over forty years' experience. A career reporter and copy editor for the Press Democrat of Santa Rosa, California, she's been recognized for journalistic excellence by multiple associations and organizations, including the California and National Newspaper Publishers Associations, the Press Club of San Francisco, the California Medical Association, the Playboy Foundation, the US Public Health Service, and the US Army, Marines, Navy, and Air Force.
Now retired, she wrote her first novel, Deep Doo-Doo, as homage to her years covering wildly varied stories, from the mundane to the dangerous to the ridiculous.
Graves makes her home in Northern California. She has two grown children, two grandchildren, and two goldfish.
