We’re excited to announce the release for ‘You Can’t Get Blood Out of Shag Carpet’ by Juliette Harper! This is the first book in A
Study Club Mystery series and it’s now available for sale on Amazon and
Smashwords for only .99 cents!

Wanda Jean Milton discovers her husband, local
exterminator Hilton Milton, dead on her new shag carpet with an Old Hickory
carving knife sticking out of his chest. Beside herself over how she’ll remove
the stain, and grief-stricken over Hilton’s demise, Wanda Jean finds herself
the prime suspect in the case. But she is also a member of “the” local Study
Club, a bastion of independent Texas feminism 1960s style. Club President Clara
Wyler has no intention of allowing a member to be a murder suspect during her
administration. Aided by her younger sister and County Clerk, Mae Ella Gormley;
Sugar Watson, the proprietress of Sugar’s Style and Spray; and Wilma Schneider,
Army MASH veteran and local RN, the Club women set out to clear Wanda Jean’s
name — never guessing the local dirt they’ll uncover in the process.

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Dear Readers,

Yes, the day has arrived. My first cozy mystery, ‘You Can’t Get Blood Out of Shag Carpet’, is now available in ebook form for 99 cents. If
you’ve read the third book in The Lockwood Legacy, you’ve already met the main
characters in this story.

Clara Wyler, Sugar Watson, Wilma Schneider, and Mae Ella
Gormley are feisty old women in Alice’s Portrait. In Shag Carpet, they’re
feisty young women with big 1960s-era Texas bouffants lacquered in place with a
thick coat of Aqua Net hairspray.

When I wrote ‘Alice’s Portrait’ these women absolutely demanded page time of their
own. I confess, this book is a homage to a group of ladies who helped raise me.
My Mother was a member of the Daedalian Study Club in Junction, Texas. I can’t
actually tell you what a “Daedalian” is, and since my father consistently
referred to them as the Dandelions, I have some difficulty to this day getting
the name right.

While they may not have been as flamboyant as the women
in Shag Carpet, they
were all larger than life and had no concept of the need to be liberated since
they were perfectly in charge in the confines of their own world. In a small
West Texas ranching community, it’s difficult to “oppress” a woman who’s a
better shot with a 30-30 than any man in her life.

These are the kind of women who help pull a kid goat
during a difficult labor at 4 o’clock, have supper on
the table at 6 o’clock, and show up for the Saturday night dance dressed to the nines at 8
o’clock. I loved and admired them all and I was scared to death of them.

The Study Club Mysteries is my droll look at the
eccentricities of small town life, especially in the 1960s, which is a decade
that colors my childhood memories.

As you know, I am actually two people and clearly these
experiences are drawn from one half of me, but the other half recognized,
appreciated, and polished the humor. This book is an absolute labor of love and
was more fun to write than I can possibly describe. And if you think this one
is funny, wait until you get to read the next one, ‘You Can’t Put a Corpse in a Parade’.

Cheers,

Juliette

Juliette Harper is the pen name used by the writing team
of Patricia Pauletti and Rana K. Williamson. You Can’t Get Blood Out of
Shag Carpet is the first installment of Harper’s debut cozy Study Club
Mysteries, an hilariously funny look at the often absurd eccentricities of
small town life. The second book, to be released in coming months, is
called You Can’t Put a Corpse in a Parade.

The droll series, set in the 1960s, is a light-hearted spinoff of Harper’s
Lockwood Legacy a nine-book chronicle of the lives of three sisters who inherit
a ranch in Central Texas following their father’s suicide. Three of the novels
are currently available: Langston’s Daughters, Baxter’s Draw,
and Alice’s Portrait. The fourth book, Mandy’s Father, will appear in
Summer 2015.

And don’t miss Harper’s first foray into the world of the
supernatural, Descendants of the Rose, Book 1 in the Selby Jensen
Paranormal Mystery series. The second Selby Jensen book, Lost in Room 636 is
also scheduled for a Summer 2015 release.

Pauletti, an Easterner of Italian descent, is an accomplished musician with an
eye for art and design. Williamson, a Texan, worked as a journalist and
university history instructor before becoming a full-time freelance writer in
2002.

For more information about Juliette Harper please visit the website, Facebook and Twitter.

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