What is Mary Jane Clark reading?

The current featured contributor at Writers Read: Mary Jane Clark, author of Footprints in the Sand.

Her entry begins:

You might not think that someone who constantly murders people in her own stories would be a big fan of the forever-running-somewhere television show Little House on the Prairie, but I am. For years and years I have loved watching the Ingalls family members and the trials and tribulations they faced, always triumphing because of their keen work ethic, strong values and abiding love for one another. I still watch it often in re-runs and I always feel better after I do.

So when I spotted Prairie Tale by Melissa Gilbert on the book shelf, I picked it up. Gilbert, you’ll remember, played Laura Ingalls. In this memoir, she recounts not only what it was like to work on the show but her experiences growing up and surviving in Hollywood. She is...[read on]

About the book, from the publisher:

It's the dead of winter and struggling actress and wedding-cake decorator Piper Donovan is thrilled to be in warm and romantic Sarasota, Florida, enjoying the powdery white beaches, soothing seas, and golden sunsets over the Gulf of Mexico. She and her family are there to celebrate her beloved cousin's wedding. Not only is Piper creating the sugar-sand-dollar-festooned wedding cake, she's also the maid of honor.

But a cloud seems to be hovering over the whole affair. Shortly after a bridesmaid mysteriously disappears, a kindly neighbor's car is run off the road and a prospective witness, an innocent Amish teenager, is threatened to keep silent. Then a body is found on the beach where the wedding will take place. With the nuptials threatened, it falls to Piper to unmask a killer. Could it be the wedding planner with something to hide? A doctor and his wife who collect unusual Japanese figurines? The best man, an ex–drug dealer with lecherous eyes and roving hands? What about her cousin's future stepfather—or even the bridegroom himself?

As Piper gets close to figuring out who's been covering his guilty footprints in the sand, the cunning killer has already set his sights on Piper as his next victim!

Learn more about Footprints in the Sand at Mary Jane Clark's website and Facebook page.

My Book, The Movie: Footprints in the Sand.

Writers Read: Mary Jane Clark.

--Marshal Zeringue