Melissa Bourbon, who sometimes answers to her Latina-by-marriage name Misa Ramirez, gave up teaching middle and high school kids in Northern California to write full-time amidst horses and Longhorns in North Texas. She fantasizes about spending summers writing in quaint, cozy locales, has a love/hate relationship with yoga and chocolate, is devoted to her family, and can’t believe she’s lucky enough to be living the life of her dreams.
She is the marketing director at Entangled Publishing, is the author of the Lola Cruz Mystery series with St. Martin’s Minotaur and Entangled Publishing (Bare Naked Lola hits the streets in April 2012), A Magical Dressmaking Mystery series with NAL, is the co-author of The Tricked-out Toolbox with Tonya Kappes, and has two romantic suspense novels to be released in 2012.
About Lola Cruz MysteriesMeet Lola Cruz. After paying her dues as an intern, she’s now a full-fledged detective at Camacho and Associates. Her boss is Manny Camacho, a muy caliente former cop with a mysterious ex-wife, a Lara Croft look-alike girlfriend, and a sudden personal interest in Lola. She’s also reunited with the gorgeous Jack Callaghan, her high school crush whom she shamelessly tailed years ago and photographed doing the horizontal salsa with some other lucky girl.
About Bare-Naked Lola
Going undercover is second nature for Private Investigator Lola Cruz, but she’s out of her league when the case of a murdered Royals Courtside Dancer leads her to a local nudist resort. Parading around the sidelines of Sacramento’s professional basketball scene in a barely-there cheerleading outfit is one thing—but parading around in nothing but smile? If she has any chance of hiding this from her traditional family and on-again/off-again boyfriend Jack, she’s going to have a lot more than her duct tape bra and killer dance moves to keep under wraps…
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I can't wait to read about Lola at a nudist resort. Sounds like a fun read. I also want to know more about the duct tape bra. Thanks for the spotlight on Melissa.
This scene reminds me of Charles' Angels when Cheryl Ladd's character (I think her character is Kris) has to strip down nude to conduct her investigation. This would be uncomfortable to Lola as it is to Kris.
Sounds like a fun summer read.
Thanks for the spotlight today! I hope you all love Lola and her mysteries as much as I do.
This sounds like an enjoyable book.
What a pleasure to meet you, Melissa! I was thinking, ooohh, what fun it would be to have a Latina-by-marriage nickname!! Alas… Not gonna happen with the hubby I've been with for 16 years!! Maybe the next one…
I had not yet been exposed to your Lola books, Melissa, but they sure look like fun! I love a spunky heroine
. Thanks for the giveaway! I'm going to look at the first three books in the series too!
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