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    Smoked Meat
    Smoked Meat
    Smoked Meat
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    Smoked Meat

    By Vinnie Hansen

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    In this novella prequel to the Carol Sabala Mystery Series, Carol visits her mother for a family Christmas get-together. It’s murder, in more ways than one.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVinnie Hansen
    Release dateAug 31, 2017
    ISBN9781370836468
    Smoked Meat
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    Vinnie Hansen

    The author of the Carol Sabala Mystery Series, Vinnie is a two-time finalists for the Claymore Award and a B.R.A.G. Medallion recipient. Her short stories have appeared in many publications, including SANTA CRUZ NOIR, part of the famous Akashic Books' noir series! Her short short won the Police Writers' Academy 2015 Golden Donut Award. Retired after 27 years of teaching high school English, Vinnie lives in Santa Cruz, California, with her husband, abstract artist Daniel S. Friedman, and their spoiled cat Lolie. For more information, visit www.vinniehansen.com.

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      Smoked Meat - Vinnie Hansen

      Smoked Meat

      A Carol Sabala Mystery Novella

      By

      Vinnie Hansen

      Published by misterio press at Smashwords

      Copyright 2017 by Vinnie Hansen

      All rights reserved under international and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be resold. No part of this novella may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

      Cover art by Book Cover Corner

      Background art by Daniel S. Friedman

      If any characters bear any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, the resemblance is coincidental. All the incidents in this work are products of the author’s imagination.

      Praise for Hansen’s Work

      BLACK BEANS & VENOM--Claymore Award Finalist

      Set in the vibrant and gritty back streets of Cuba, this cat-and-mouse hunt for a missing woman is full of intrigue, suspense and authenticity.

      --award-winner crime writer Allen Eskens on BLACK BEANS & VENOM

      I love Carol Sabala . . . quirky, gutsy and my kind of gal in an aqua tank top.

      --Cara Black, author of the Aimée Leduc mystery series

      ART, WINE, & BULLETS is a delightful, appealing, and delectable read.

      Midwest Book Review

      In Sabala, Hansen has created a likable sleuth whose many problems readers may readily identify with, and as far as Carol’s mother goes—well, let’s just say I hope we see more of her in the future.

      --Michael Cornelius, The Bloomsbury Review

      ALSO BY VINNIE HANSEN:

      Carol Sabala Mysteries:

      Murder, Honey

      One Tough Cookie

      Rotten Dates

      Tang Is Not Juice

      Death with Dessert

      Art, Wine & Bullets

      Black Beans & Venom

      Stand-alone Novel:

      Lostart Street, a novel of mystery, murder, and moonbeams.

      Boxed Sets:

      Sleuthing Women: 10 First-in-Series Mysteries

      Sleuthing Women II: 10 Mystery Novellas

      Smoked Meat

      A Carol Sabala Mystery Novella

      By

      Vinnie Hansen

      Santa decided I deserved coal. A great big lump. Maybe he saw me poring over one too many articles on murder weapons.

      My worst Christmas ever started with a rare call from my mother, one Bea Sabala.

      Are you coming, Carol?

      Since my baking job at the swanky Archibald’s required me to work holidays, I was often able to dodge family get-togethers. But I hadn’t received a Christmas off for years, a detail noticed by my boss, who had granted me the holiday as though bestowing a championship ribbon. I could hardly refuse his offer. And going home was marginally better than spending Christmas Day alone, my hunky roofer boyfriend being occupied with his mother.

      As it happens, I can come this year.

      Good, she said, because the secret gift I have for you is way too heavy to mail.

      That was it. My mom hung up her phone.

      A week later, on Christmas Eve, an assemblage of guests converged on my mom’s ranch-style house in Ferndale, California. My mom must have specified a time because everyone arrived at once.

      To keep the driveway open for others, I parked my poor man’s Porsche, a faded red ’66 Karmann Ghia, on a dirt pull-out down the road. I

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