Cutest Little Killer

Once the Sleuth Sisters series ended, I thought about what I'd like to write next. I came up with a precocious child (actually two of them) and a private detective who isn't quite sure what to do with them.

This one took a lot more research than I expected, which is my own fault. I wanted the kids to have grown up in South America, which I knew nothing about. My interest stemmed from meeting a well-known archaeologist, Napoleon Chagnon, who hailed from my hometown. My daughter was thrilled when her class at Columbia was assigned to read his book, since she'd simply known him as her friend's "Uncle Nap" at their family reunions.  

From there I went off on a tangent, with Lucy the child of a couple who'd lived among the tribal people of the Amazon jungle but died, leaving her and her brother stuck with an evil guardian. I toyed with making it a series, but while the reviews were good, there weren't many. It isn't worth a year of my life to write a sequel to a book that doesn't sell, no matter how much I like Lucy and her P.I. protector, Max.

Cutest Little Killer begins when private investigator Max is visited by two kids who want him to find them a hitman to kill their guardian, whom they claim is planning to kill them. He is not amused, and he's planning on a week's vacation, but there's something about precocious, serious Lucy and her even more serious brother that convinces him that he'd better take a look at the situation. This book is available here  for $2.99.