A Quick and Dirty Q&A with Denise Grover Swank

January 10, 2018
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A Q&A with Denise Grover Swank, author of DEADLY SUMMER.

Ten years ago, Summer Butler was television’s most popular teenage sleuth. Since then, she’s hit—what gossip sites just love to call—the gutter. Nearly bankrupt, betrayed, estranged from her greedy mother, and just about unemployable, she’s coaxed into that desperate haven for has-beens: reality TV.

Winging it as a faux PI, she’ll solve off-the-cuff mysteries in her hometown of Sweet Briar, Alabama. For added drama, there’s police chief Luke Montgomery, inconveniently Summer’s first and only love.

Q & A

Quick and Dirty Q&A: Denise Grover Swank

Coffee or tea? Definitely coffee
Walk on the beach or skiing at a remote chalet? I love the beach.
Comedy or drama? Usually comedy
TV or books? Books
Best movie you watched in 2017? Wonder Woman
Best romance you read in 2017? Trickery (Persuasion of the Gods), by Jamin Eve. Such a fun series!
A book you wish you had written? Amy Bartol’s Secondborn. I’m in love with that book.
Favorite romance trope to read? Second chance romance.
Favorite romance trope to write? Enemies to friends
Favorite place to write? My sunroom. It’s my happy place.
Your heroine that most closely resembles you? Probably Piper Lancaster in my upcoming Of Ash and Spirit.
A trait that all of your heroes must have? Deep down, they are usually nice guys.
A setting (city/region) you want to write about in the future? I’m not sure. I’ve wanted to set a series in Asheville, North Carolina for a couple of years, and a week ago, I just finished a book set there. I need a new place!
The actor and actress you used to physically model your H/h from Deadly Summer? None. My characters usually just appear in my head. Then I struggle to find actors and actresses to fit them.
Your favorite scene from Deadly Summer? That’s hard, but probably the Boll Weevil Parade.
A song that encapsulates the emotion of Deadly Summer? Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd
What’s next? Blazing Summer, my next Darling Investigations book releases in June, but I’ll be releasing Of Ash and Spirit, my first urban fantasy book in several years in February, and Hell in a Handbasket, my next Rose Gardner Investigations in April.

About the Book

Title: Deadly Summer

Author: Denise Grover Swank

Release Date: January 9, 2018

Publisher: Montlake Romance

Summary

It’s when Summer stumbles upon a very real corpse that Darling Investigations takes an unexpected twist. The growing list of suspects is a big draw to viewers, but the reality is that Summer doesn’t know whom she can trust. Someone has written this killer new scene especially for her, and unless Summer gives the role everything she’s got, it could be her last…

Biography

Denise Grover Swank is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of the Rose Gardner Mystery Series, the Magnolia Steele Mystery Series, The Wedding Pact Series, The Curse Keepers Series, and others. She was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and lived in the area until she was nineteen. Then she became a nomad, living in five cities, four states, and ten houses over the course of ten years before moving back to her roots. Her hobbies include witty Facebook comments (in her own mind) and dancing in her kitchen with her children (quite badly, if you believe her offspring). Hidden talents include the gift of justification and the ability to drink massive amounts of caffeine and still fall asleep within two minutes. Her lack of the sense of smell allows her to perform many unspeakable tasks. She has six children and hasn’t lost her sanity—or so she leads you to believe. For more information about Denise, please visit her at www.denisegroverswank.com.

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