Crime de Cocoa Three Chocoholic Mysteries Chocoholic

Crime de Cocoa Three Chocoholic Mysteries Chocoholic Eve K Sandstrom The author writes about Cocoa Three PDF/EPUB æ the shores of Lake Michigan and has been reviewed in Michigan newspapers as a “regional writer” She has also written about Southwest Oklahoma and once won an award for the best book of the year with an Oklahoma settingEve K Sandstrom is an Oklahoman to the teeth she was born there as were five previous generations of her mother’s family Both her grandfathers and her father were in the oil business Crime de Epub / once the backbone of Oklahoma’s economy One grandmother was born in the Choctaw Nation and Eve is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Eve and seven other members of her immediate family are graduates of the University of Oklahoma Eve even knows the second verse of “Boomer Sooner”Eve wrote two mystery series the “Down Home” books set on a ranch in Southwest Oklahoma and the Nell Matthews mysteries semi hard boiled books laid in a mid size de Cocoa Three PDF Î city on the Southern PlainsBut Eve married a great guy whose family owned a cottage on the west coast of Lake Michigan not far from the Michigan towns of Fennville Saugatuck and Douglas Every summer for than forty years she her husband and various combinations of children and grandchildren have trekked to the community of Pier Cove for vacations that lasted from two weeks to three monthsThe area features gorgeous beaches lush orchards thick woods and beautiful Victorian houses de Cocoa Three Chocoholic Mysteries PDF or Eve grew to love it So when her editor asked her to come up with de Cocoa Three Chocoholic Mysteries PDF or a new “cozy” mystery series Eve set it in a West Michigan resort town scrambling up Saugatuck Douglas South Haven Holland Manistee Ludington and Muskegon with her own ideas of what a resort ought to be to create Warner PierAs further background she plunked her heroine into a business which produces and sells luscious luxurious European style bonbons truffles and molded chocolates Most small towns couldn’t support a business like this but the resorts of West Michigan – with their wealthy “summer people” – can The “Chocoholic Mysteries” were on their wayEve’s editor reuested that she use a pen name for the new series and Eve picked the middle names of her three children Betsy Jo Ruth Anna and John Carl “JoAnna Carl” was born So that’s how JoAnnaEve became a regional author in two widely separated regionsJoAnnaEve earned a degree in journalism at the University of Oklahoma and also studied with Carolyn G Hart and Jack Bickham in the OU Creative Writing Program She spent than twenty five years in the newspaper business working as a reporter editor and columnist at The Lawton Constitution in Lawton Oklahoma She took an early retirement to write fiction full timeShe and her husband David F Sandstrom have three grandchildren whom they love introducing to the lore of their two homes – Oklahoma and MichiganShe spent years in the newspaper business as a reporter feature writer editor and columnist most recently at the Lawton Constitution She holds a degree in journalism from the University of OK and also studied in the OU Professional Writing program She lives in Oklahoma but summers in Michigan where the Chocoholic Mystery series is set She has one daughter who is a CPA and another who works for a chocolate company and provides yummy insider information on the chocolate business.