If you love herbal, gardening or crafting mysteries, you'll love this 35,000 Word Novella. Kendra Louise Harper is a folklorist, avid gardener and accidental sleuth. All she wanted to do that nice day in September was help her Aunt Jewel with a Natural Dyeing with Plants workshop for the Nameless Garden Club. Before the workshop is over, a dead body is found face down in a pool of glass and indigo in Jewel's courtyard garden. The next door neighbor swears that he saw Aunt Jewel whack the victim over the head with a silver hammer. No one else really believes Aunt Jewel killed Mrs. Bunch--that is, except maybe the sheriff. And he's the one who counts. He'd just as soon throw Jewel Moore in jail as look at her. But he has no solid proof; he's not going to waste his time trying to prove her innocent. He'd rather bide his time and wait for the murderer to slip up and come to him. Kendra decides that if anything is going to be done to get her aunt off the hook, she'll have to do it. Along with Kendra's friends---a very colorful waiter at Do-Lolly's Diner named Jeremy, Deputy Jim Wyman (Kendra's love interest), Ginger Marshall (a local art quilter) and her friends---she sets out to prove that her aunt is innocent. The victim, Mrs. Eula Mae Bunch, was not a popular person in Nameless. As Kendra gathers information, she realizes that Mrs. Bunch was probably the most unpopular person in town---for good reason. As one resident said, "That old woman is meaner than a room full of peckish wolverines." Why is Kendra's neighbor so sure that her aunt killed Mrs. Bunch? And if she didn't kill her, who did? And why? And there are other mysteries in town. Who chopped down Jewel's indigo bush in her own yard? Who is the inebriated stranger that shows up to Eula-Mae's funeral? And what does an erotic romance novel have to do with all of it? Tongues are waggin' in Nameless! Things haven't been this exciting since George Leroy Johnson got the back of his britches caught in the revolving door at the old Railroad Hotel and was pitched out the middle of Main Street with his wherewithalls showing. DYE, DYEING, DEAD is the first novella in the Nameless, TX mystery series and features Kendra Louise Harper, Folklorist. Since I was very young, I had the urge to entertain other people and make them laugh. It wasn't until recently, though, that people actually started telling me that my stories made them laugh--in a good way. I love writing funny, entertaining tales about quirky, sometimes strange people. The small towns I've lived in have been a good source of inspiration for individuals who just don't fit in the "normal" category. I seem to notice a lot of the marginal types--the quirky individuals that others don't see--and I love using some of their traits as inspiration for my characters. Over the years, I've toyed with the idea of studying stand-up comedy, or even clowning, but I'm basically a shy introvert who loves working from the privacy of my own home. I grew up around kinfolks who had a quirky sense of humor, and I guess I inherited it. Put that together with all the Alfred Hitchcock, Twilight Zone and cop TV shows I grew up with, and a little bit of mayhem and murder creeps into the mix. The nicest compliment I got on one of my stories was that it's "Hitchcockian." Things in the world are tough enough these days and the bad guys don't always get their comeuppance. Writing is hard work, but if one of my stories distracts people from their problems for even just an hour, then it's all worth it to me. I am also the author of the "Nameless, Texas" short story mystery series, a set of cozy stories featuring a mess of rowdy characters and have won awards for my comedy stage plays written for young people. More information about my work can be seen on my blog and website: bobbichukran.blogspot.com bobbichukran.com Sign up for my author newsletter here: eepurl.com/0Jehb