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5.5 x 8.5 | 320 pages
Hardcover | Trade Paper
September 2010
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With her nearly broke and practically homeless mother about to land on her doorstep, Robyn Guthrie learns that desperation can play havoc with a daughter's scruples. Otherwise, why would she even consider kidnapping a goat and holding it for ransom?
PRAISE FOR GETTING SASSY
"Caper fans will relish Brod's offbeat stand-alone thriller. Illinois freelance writer Robyn Guthrie can no longer afford to keep her elderly mother, Lizzie, in an assisted living facility. Desperate to come up with the cash somehow, Robyn considers a variety of illegal acts. In the end, she seeks to kill two birds with one stone by trying to retrieve a large amount of Lizzie's savings that were lost in a real estate scam from the con man responsible, Bull Severn. Fortunately, Robyn's shady accountant, ex-jockey Mick Hughes, has access to Bull and, more importantly, to Bull's prize possession, a racehorse called Bull's Blood. Mick, who has financial troubles of his own, takes seriously Robyn's half-baked notion of holding Sassy, a goat to whom Bull's Blood is emotionally attached, for ransom. Brod (Heartstone) expertly blends suspenseful action with characters readers will care for, in particular her sympathetic and plausible lead."
—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
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Deborah (Deb) Brod has written fiction most of her life, but didn't think she had a novel in her until after she graduated from Northern Illinois University with an M.A. in journalism. It was then that she decided if she could spend 120 pages discussing postal oppression of the radical press, she could write a novel. She was right. Her first novel, Murder In Store, featuring private detective Quint McCauley, appeared two years later in 1989. Four more novels in the series followed. Her short stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and several anthologies.
She veered off the traditional mystery path when her love of Celtic mythology, the British Isles, and a really impressive gemstone (she also likes things that sparkle) got her imagination cooking. Heartstone was the result.
Brod has an undergraduate degree in English from Western Illinois University and has worked as a technical/marketing writer, and as a fiction editor. She's a frequent speaker at writer's conferences, libraries and has taught creative writing.
She lives in St. Charles, Illinois with her husband, Donald, and a cat, Travis McGee. When she's not writing, reading, or finding excuses not to clean the house, she enjoys watercolor painting, traveling, and watching crows.
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