Description:
Brief description: Leah Orr resides in Jensen Beach, Florida with her husband and three daughters. Leah is a best selling children's author and thriller novelist. She has written 11 books. Leah donates the profits from her books to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Upon learning that her daughter Ashley was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis (while still in the womb), Orr knew she wanted to do something special. With some input from her mother and three daughters, it was decided that she'd write books to benefit the (CF) Foundation. The Orr Family has risen over $1,300,000 over the past 20 years to help find a cure.Leah has recently been featured on ABC's Health Watch, NBC Today South Florida, CBS South Florida, CBS This Morning Virginia, NBC the 10! Show Philadelphia, Fox 4 News Morning Blend, National Syndicated, "The Daily Buzz", and Lifetime TV's "The Balancing Act."Leah has been featured in Publications such as: Forbes Magazine, Medical News Today, The Boston Globe, The Miami Herald, The Sun-Sentinel, etc. Ashley was also a recipient of Oprah's generosity in "The Big Give".Books by Leah Orr include children's books: Messy Tessy, It Wasn't Me, Kyle's First Crush, & Kyle's First Playdate. Her thrillers include: The Executive Suite, The Bartender and The She Shed. Her horror shorts include: The Old Lady in the Gazebo, One Wish, The Last Mile, Till Death and A Squirrel Named Santa.Orr and her husband were recently nominated as one of Florida's Finest Couples by the CF Foundation, and included in "IN THE SPOTLIGHT" on CFF.ORG. Leah was also nominated as one of Broward County's top 100 Outstanding Women. Orr grew up in Boston, MA and is a graduate of the University of Miami.More information is available at www.leahorr.com
Review Quotes:
Publishers Weekly: Orr crafts a cozy mystery that offers a fresh spin on the lengths we'll go to for true love. A neighborhood dog digging up a human jawbone in idyllic Jensen Beach, Florida, gives the neighbors something to talk about-and sets off a disturbing series of events for Charlotte, whose Aunt Adeline just happens to own the bone-filled yard responsible for all the fuss. When Adeline goes missing, local law enforcement rings up Charlotte to fill her in on the investigation, and she's shocked to discover there's a whole host of human remains buried in her aunt's yard.
The mystery's standard fare here, but that doesn't take away from the fun of unraveling Adeline's past, particularly when Charlotte stumbles onto a cryptic poem and video log of her aunt's seeming confession. While she's deciphering her aunt's clues, Charlotte gets caught up with local cop Derek-but just as things start to heat up between the two, Charlotte gets an ominous warning that there's more to Derek than meets the eye. That suggestion sets up the novel for an unconventional twist in the end (some readers may be discomfited by revelations that keep it all in the family), but Orr keeps readers spinning with some considerable things-are-not-as-they-seem unveilings throughout.
The She Shed's draw is undoubtedly Orr's quirky characters. Adeline's closest friends-"old-school Grateful Dead hippie" Randall, gal pal Millie, and the enigmatic, angry Betty-add plenty of fuel to the small-town fire, as does the questionable mayor, who's formed his own vigilante squad to "protect women" but seems desperate to cover up the town's slaveholding secrets at the same time. Readers will appreciate Orr's tidy wrap-up of the murders, and most of the characters earn the happy ending they deserve; the town, however, turns out to be "full of skeletons-literally." Backmatter includes entertaining recipes from one of the story's main players.