Wednesday Wicked Ways: Friday Night Mystery Club Series by Joanna Campbell Slan

Wednesday Wicked Ways: Friday Night Mystery Club Series
by Joanna Campbell Slan

About Wednesday Wicked Ways

Wednesday Wicked Ways: Friday Night Mystery Club Series
Cozy Mystery
4th in Series
Setting – Decatur, Illinois/1986
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Spot On Publishing (March 23, 2025)
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 230 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8314595169
Digital ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0DSCJFK42

From bestselling cozy mystery author Joanna Campbell Slan comes a thrilling new installment in the Friday Night Mystery Club series, featuring a group of female amateur sleuths.

Decatur, Illinois/1986– In this small Midwestern town, everyone has something to hide, from Japanese business interests eyeing a piece of property to an angry sharpshooter harboring a murderous obsession. Meanwhile, working women struggle to make their way in a man’s world, and their primary opposition might well be…other women.

Cragan Collins has a lot on her plate: a demanding job as an advertising rep, a complicated love life, and an upcoming public speaking contest. But when a shooter targets a performer at one of her ad accounts, Fast Freddy’s Gentleman’s Club, and leaves a young dancer critically injured, Cragan and her mystery-solving friends spring into action. They suspect that Pru, the club’s star performer and their housemate, may be the real target — and the danger to her is far from over.

This page-turning cozy mystery features female amateur sleuths who love reading mysteries. The book blends humor, romance, and suspense while tackling themes of workplace equality and acceptance.

Perfect for fans of Wendy Delaney, Elaine Viets, and Tonya Kappes, or anyone who enjoys mysteries with a side helping of social commentary, a smidgeon of humor, and a dash of romance.

This is Book 4 in the Friday Night Mystery Club series, but can be read as a standalone novel.

Excerpt

Pop! The sound exploded the frigid night air.

A backfire, thought Chantilly.

A firecracker, thought Pru, standing not far from her friends.

Weird, thought Taffy. She intended to get inside her car, but her legs didn’t cooperate. Instead, they buckled.

Chantilly made a diving grab and caught the other girl before she hit the ground. Being stronger and taller, Chantilly was able to ease Taffy to the pavement. While doing so, she noticed how white Taffy’s face looked. Was it a result of the sodium lamp? No, it was deathly pale.

“Taffy, you okay?” asked Chantilly, lightly slapping Taffy’s cheeks.

“Leg,” Taffy moaned.

Chantilly ran her hands down the other woman’s body. She stopped when she discovered a warm wetness. Lifting her ivory-colored leather gloves toward the parking lamp, Chantilly gasped in horror. Blood dripped down her arm.

About Joanna Campbell Slan

Joanna is a New York Times Bestselling, USA Today Bestselling, and Amazon Bestselling author as well as a woman prone to frequent bursts of crafting frenzy, leaving her with burns from her hot glue gun and paint on her clothes. And the mess? Let’s not even go there.

Otherwise, Joanna’s a productive author with more than 80 written projects to her credit. Her non-fiction work includes how to books, a college textbook for public speakers, and books of personal essays (think Chicken Soup for the Soul).

Currently, she writes six fiction series: The Kiki Lowenstein Mystery Series (Agatha Award Finalist, contemporary, St. Louis setting, crafting), the Cara Mia Delgatto Mystery Series (contemporary, Florida setting, DIY, and recycling), the Jane Eyre Chronicles (Daphne du Maurier Award Winner, 1830s England, based on Charlotte Brontë’s classic), the Sherlock Holmes Fantasy Thrillers (late 1800s, based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s books), the Tai Chi Mystery Series (featuring a mature female amateur sleuth!) and the Friday Night Mystery Series (set in Decatur, IL in 1986 with a spunky female heroine.)

A former TV talk show host, college teacher, and public relations specialist, Joanna was one of the early Chicken Soup for the Soul contributors. She won a Silver Anvil for her work on the original FarmAid concert to benefit farmers.

In her ongoing quest never to see snow again, Joanna lives with her husband and their Havanese puppy, Jax, on an island off the coast of Florida. You can email her at jcslan@joannaslan.com or visit her website at https://linktr.ee/jcslan

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