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“Greetings From Ventnor City has it all: a gripping mystery, twists and turns, and Kelly’s signature humor! Don’t miss this one.”
—Lisa Regan, USA Today and Wall Street
Journal, Bestselling Crime Fiction Author
Newly engaged Meg Daniels stays behind at the Artistical Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City while her fiancé returns to work securing their employer’s Bahamian property from Hurricane Frieda. But she’s not alone for long. The talkative stranger with skinny white legs sticking out of wide Bermuda shorts turns out to be Xander Frost, rock idol and frequent Artistical guest, traveling incognito as part of his quest to learn how ordinary people live.
A woman recognizes Meg as the amateur sleuth who recently solved a mysterious disappearance from the 1960s, and she asks for help in learning the fate of the sister she last knew as a 19-year-old who ran away from her Ventnor home in 1968. Xander persuades Meg to take the case, and the unlikely duo travel up and down the Jersey shore and beyond to interview the people who had known Sarah Johnson best. As they retrace her steps—and Meg gets a taste of the rock star life—they discover that there might be a sinister reason the trail has been cold for so long. Was she a rebellious teenager who got swept up in the counterculture and broke free of her restrictive family? Or did someone want her out of the way… permanently?
“Meg Daniels is in it again, and readers are in for yet another exhilarating ride of twists and turns. Greetings From Ventnor City had me alternately laughing and cringing at Meg’s trademark wit, unusual experiences, and unerring ability to dig out the truth, come hell or high water.”
—Jane Gorman, author of the
Adam Kaminski mystery series
303 pp/trade paperback | ISBN 978-1-940091-06-8
Ebook Editions: Amazon Kindle | B&N Nook | Kobo
Jane Kelly is a native Philadelphian but no matter where her career took her—New York, Washington DC, Boston, Chicago or Phoenix—she managed to visit the Jersey Shore at least once a year where the Meg Daniels mysteries are set. Jane is a graduate of Chestnut Hill College, has an MS from Drexel University in Library and Information Science and an MPhil in Popular Literature from Trinity College, Dublin in 2008. Jane has served as President of the Delaware Valley Sisters in Crime and on the board of the New York Chapter of Mystery Writers of America. Her fourth Meg Daniels mystery, Missing You in Atlantic City, won an Independent Publisher Book Award silver medal for mid-Atlantic fiction in 2015.
She currently lives in the Philadelphia area, close to the Jersey Shore settings of the Meg Daniels mysteries.
