New on my reading horizon is Southern California author Gayle Carline‘s Murder Bytes.

Carline releases her newest Peri Minneopa mystery, Murder Bytes (ISBN 978-1-943654-14-7), on February 14, 2020. Murder Bytes follows the first four books in the acclaimed Peri Minneopa series: Freezer Burn, Hit or Missus, The Hot Mess, and A More Deadly Union. Other Carline fictional offerings include the short story, Clean Sweep (ASIN B004U37614), and the Willie Adams romantic mystery, Murder on the Hoof. Carline also authored the humorous memoirs, What Would Erma Do? and Raising the Perfect Family and Other Tall Tales.

In Murder Bytes, 50-year-old private investigator, Peri Minneopa has had enough. She’s closing her business, marrying her detective boyfriend, and settling down to a life of ease—until her brother shows up, accused of a murder he swears he didn’t commit. Now she’s back in the thick of things, investigating the death of an engineer who may have been stealing techno-secrets from other companies. Her relationship with her brother is an icy one, at best. Peri struggles with her ambivalence as well as her desire to leave investigative work behind. Digging around in people’s lives is reasonably easy. But when the bullets start flying, will Peri be able to keep her promise?

UPCOMING

Carline indicates that any future books featuring Peri Minneopa may have a different flavor and evolve into a different series. A sequel to her romantic suspense, Murder on the Hoof is also in the works.

I’ll be checking out Gayle Carline’s Murder Bytes as well as the rest of the Peri Minneopa series. Stay tuned for possible reviews of this series in the coming months.