Deadly Dues (35 page)

Deadly Dues

T
HE
I
SLAND
I
NVESTIGATIONS
I
NTERNATIONAL
M
YSTERY
SERIES
BY
S
ANDY
F
RANCES
D
UNCAN AND
G
EORGE
S
ZANTO

Never Sleep with a Suspect on Gabriola Island
Always Kiss the Corpse on Whidbey Island
Never Hug a Mugger on Quadra Island

T
HE
M
ARGARET
S
PENCER
M
YSTERY
SERIES
BY
G
WENDOLYN
S
OUTHIN

Death in a Family Way
In the Shadow of Death
Death on a Short Leash
Death as a Last Resort

T
HE
S
ILAS
S
EAWEED
M
YSTERY
SERIES
BY
S
TANLEY
E
VANS

Seaweed on the Street
Seaweed on Ice
Seaweed Under Water
Seaweed on the Rocks
Seaweed in the Soup

Linda Kupecek is the author of the bestselling
Rebel Women: Achievements Beyond the Ordinary
,
The Rebel Cook: Entertaining Advice for the Clueless
and
Fiction and Folly for the Festive Season
. She was a columnist with
The Hollywood Reporter
for ten years, and her writing has been published in numerous magazines including
City Palate
,
TV Guide
and
Country Collectibles
. After graduating from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama, Linda began her professional career as an actor, appearing in regional theatre, and in classic films such as
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
, the Robert Altman revisionist Western, in which she had a supporting role, appearing onscreen with Julie Christie and Warren Beatty. She has survived children's tours, regional theatre, costumes falling off onstage, big-budget films, low-budget films, low-budget fees and is still here to write about it. Born in Calgary, Alberta she has lived in Los Angeles and Vancouver. Linda now lives in Calgary.
Deadly Dues
is the first mystery in the Lulu Malone Mystery series.

Copyright © 2010 Linda Kupecek

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, audio recording or otherwise— without the written permission of the publisher or, in the case of photocopying, a licence from Access Copyright, Toronto, Canada.

Originally published by TouchWood Editions Ltd. in 2010
with ISBN 978-1-894898-98-0.

This electronic edition was released in 2011.
e-pub ISBN: 978-1-926741-59-8
e-pdf ISBN: 978-1-926741-58-1

Cataloguing data available from Library and Archives Canada.

Editor: Frances Thorsen
Cover design: David Middleton
Interior design: Pete Kohut
Author photo: Bill Vauthrin

TouchWood Editions acknowledges the financial support for its publishing program from the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund, Canada Council for the Arts and the British Columbia Arts Council.

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