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When You’re a Bartender You Hear It All. If You’re Sherri Travis, You Feel Like You Need to Do Something About It.

A Brewski for the Old Man
A Sherri Travis Mystery
Phyllis Smallman

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ecrets have a way of unraveling and sometimes the past doesn’t stay dead. in this third Sherri Travis mystery, Phyllis Smallman returns to Jacaranda, Florida for her best book yet. John Ray Leenders, the brutal man who tried to rape Sherri Travis when she was thirteen, is back in Jacaranda, living with the single mother of a teenage daughter. Sherri does not want to get involved and tries hard to ignore what she sees happening to Lacey, but it’s impossible to look away. Then Sherri’s father, Tully Jenkins, also reappears in her life, dragging Sherri deep into the swamp to exact revenge on the men who set fire to Uncle Ziggy’s junk yard. From a fashion show at the Royal Palms to alligator poaching in the swamp, Sherri struggles to untangle lies, stay alive, keep the Sunset running, and stay one step ahead of disaster. Phyllis Smallman won the first ever Arthur Ellis “Unhanged” Award for Best Unpublished novel for Margarita Nights. The same novel went on to be short listed for the Debut Dagger by the Crime Writers of the UK, shortlisted for Best First Novel by the Crime Writers of Canada, and nominated for the Malice Domestic Award in the U.S. Depending on the time of year, she can be found on Salt Spring island, British Columbia, Hamilton, Ontario, or a beach in Southwest Florida.

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Brian Spears put his right hand up to his right cheek to cover his motioning left forefinger. “Is that a transvestite?” I looked down the bar to where he was pointing. “Either a trannie or a regular guy who makes really bad clothing choices.” His voice rose with his eyebrows in outrage. “Do you allow them in here?” “Honey, I allow you in here, which goes to show how broadminded I am...broad minded and broad assed, although I don’t think the two always go together.” Three stools away Peter raised his hand. He either wanted permission to leave the room or he was signaling for another drink. Since we were in the Sunset Bar and Grill down in Jacaranda Florida, I was betting it was another scotch he wanted and since I, Sherri Travis, was behind the bar, I went and got him a fresh drink. Customers were really ticking me off that night. Normally I can put up with any damn thing but at that moment I wished they’d all disappear, which of course would make me do the same. You see, I’d recently acquired the Sunset, or at least the bank and a silent partner, who had way too much to say, allowed me to work here about twelve or fourteen hours a day, seven days a week. Nice of them wasn’t it? Anyway, the whole world was bugging me that night. “You’re starting to sound just like Miss Emma,” Brian told me when I came back to drop off his third and last drink of the night. “Ah, so my surliness hasn’t gone unnoticed.” “Not for a moment.” Memories of Miss Emma brought an answering smile to my face. “Miss Emma hired me when I left Jimmy and came back to Jacaranda to start over. She owned the Sunset then.” Brian said, “Wasn’t she something?” I shook my finger under his nose and did a bad imitation of a wonderful old broad. “Be careful, girl. Pay attention and don’t believe everything you hear.” I laughed. “You know how I make a decision these days?” “I shudder to think,” said Brian, sipping his Grey Goose with lime. “I ask myself, what would Miss Emma do?”

September • Fiction/Mystery • 350 pages • 6 x 9 • Carton qty: 28 ISBN13: 978-1-55278-836-3 • 1-55278-836-9 • $19.95 pb. • [ T ]

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