"With a colorful cast of characters, a quick-paced plot, and a resourceful heroine who's as unusual as she is appealing, Penny Warner delivers another winner. Blind Side is lively entertainment that both surprises and satisfies."--Jonnie Jacobs, author of Murder Among Strangers and Witness for the Defense

Buford the Bullfrog is dead. And that's only the beginning...

Connor Westphal, the feisty deaf publisher of the weekly Eureka! jumps into the annual Jubilee festivities when her sidekick and main squeeze, private eye Dan Smith, is retained by Buford's jockey to find the "murderer." With the help of Sheriff Elvis Mercer and the eccentric denizens of Flat Skunk, Connor and Dan think it'll be a snap, until the sheriff's son Jeremiah comes under suspicion--and a human body surfaces in Critter's Creek, along with a lot more dead frogs. Connor knows her assistant, Miah Mercer, is innocent, and with the aid of a new blind friend, sets about finding out who is killing the frogs--and people--of Calaveras County.

Blind Side is Connor Westphal's fifth adventure. In this book and in Dead Body Language, Sign of Foul Play, Right to Remain Silent, and A Quiet Undertaking the intrepid deaf sleuth has investigated the mortuary business, family secrets, mining, the construction trade, overdevelopment, health care scams, and other ills of small-town life in the Gold Country. Warner has many devoted deaf fans, and her hearing readers have learned much about the deaf world. Blind Side similarly explores the world of the unsighted. But the most valuable lesson of the series is Connor's fierce determination not to let her disability rob her of the fullest possible life.

About the Author. Penny Warner is the author of over twenty-five books, including many for parents and children, and five books in the Connor Westphal mystery series. Dead Body Language was nominated for an Agatha award and won a Macavity award for Best First Mystery. Warner teaches child development and sign language at local colleges, and has taught deaf children. She also teaches nonfiction and mystery writing in several venues, and wrote a newspaper column for many years.

Blind Side
A Connor Westphal Mystery

ISBN 1-880284-42-1
216 pages, paperback $12.95

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