Nancy Bush's first Jane Kelly Mystery novel, Candy Apple Red, introduced readers to the whip-smart, wickedly funny sleuth and her pug, The Binkster.  This fall, Nancy Bush is back, along with Jane Kelly and The Binkster, in ELECTRIC BLUE, which is being published this October by Kensington Books.

Jane Kelly's usual motto in life is never trust anyone too handsome, but she's willing to make an exception when charming Jasper "Jazz" Purcell, son of Lake Chinook's wealthiest and most famously eccentric family, comes to ask for her help.  It seems the Purcell matriarch, Orchid, who also controls the family fortune, is in her eighties and losing her marbles.  What Jazz needs is somebody from the outside to convince his grandmother to give up control, somebody neutral, somebody with a dog, since Orchid loves dogs.  Enter Jane and The Binkster, babysitting a dotty old lady, surrounded by a hostile, money hungry family, who are all hiding secrets.

When Orchid turns up in a pool of blood on Jane's watch, the free-for-all has just begun. Diving into the Purcell family history leads Jane on some hair-raising twists and turns through mental illness, greed, deception, betrayal, and lies.  When Jane finds the second body, it seems life is doing to get a lot stranger, and a lot more deadly.

Publishers Weekly stated, "The shrewd, sassy protagonist of Bush's Jane Kelly series gets tangled in dangerous family politics in her lively second outing……Bush dials up the suspense when one of the Purcells is found dead.  With her clever ability to handle the zaniest of life's circumstances, Jane won't disappoint readers."

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About the Author:

Nancy Bush has been writing fiction for over twenty years.  She began her career with her sister, #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson, while they both were raising young families.  Their first book was co-written in long-hand at the dining room table.   Though it was "rejected by the best of them", the book spawned both of their writing careers.  To date Bush has written for the Nancy Drew mystery series, young adult romance, historical romance, "chick-lit", plus she did a stint on the head-writing team of the daytime drama ALL MY CHILDREN in 2002/2003.  However, her true passion has always been to write a mystery story, and she is delighted to have the Jane Kelly Mystery series fulfill that dream.

About the Binkster:

The Binkster is a Chinese pug who makes her debut appearance in the first book of the Jane Kelly Mystery Series.  The Binkster was first created as a fictional character –Nancy had put her in her early versions of CANDY APPLE RED long before The Binkster was real flesh and blood.  Now she's an integral part of the Jane Kelly Mystery Series and a real, live sweetheart of a dog.

To learn more about Nancy Bush and her novels please visit her at www.nancybush.net