Salt Marsh Sinners

Frank Perruda intends to change his will and disinherit his three grown children. But before the seventy-eight-year-old furniture store owner can put his pen to paper, he is mysteriously murdered in his penthouse, which sits atop a retirement home in Naples, Florida.

Frank's children and trophy wife are the prime suspects in the ensuing police investigation-until a shipment of bar stools manufactured in Mexico shows up in Frank's name. When the shipment is inspected, the case is cracked open in a different direction, which points to suspects with even more mercenary motives.

Joining local law enforcement on the investigation is DEA Special Agent Russell Jones, who resides in the same lush, upscale retirement home as the departed.

Julie Rogers, attractive concierge at Rosewood Center, and Russell find romance mixed with danger and intrigue. Can Russell uncover the clues and figure out who done it? Or will his relationships with people embroiled in the investigation stand in his way of finding out what took place in his own community?

Sure to surprise you as much as it delights you, Salt Marsh Sinners is full of intrigue, suspense, drama, and just the right amount of humor. It will leave you guessing with each turn of the page, and will leave you hanging from a metaphorical cliff on more than one occasion.

Marian Mathews Hersrud is a Minneapolis native who attended Carleton College and graduated from the University of Minnesota, where she met her husband, Morry. Following Morry’s Air Force service in World War II, the couple moved to South Dakota and raised four children while Marian served on the Board of Regents of Higher Education, the South Dakota Humanities Foundation, and South Dakota PEO.

Marian started writing in the third grade and never stopped. Her articles have been published in The Educational Review, Sage Woman, and South Dakota Magazine She has authored a cook book, ＂My Friends Are the Best Cooks,＂ and has written three novels, two of which take place in Sturgis, South Dakota, and the third in Maine. Her fourth novel, Salt Marsh Sinners, carries readers to Naples, Florida, where murder, mystery, and mayhem riddle the lives of a compelling cast of characters associated with an upscale retirement home.