Murder Strikes a Chord: A Pearly Girls Mystery
by Heather Weidner
Murder Strikes a Chord: A Pearly Girls Mystery
Cozy Mystery
1st in Series
Setting – Virginia
Publisher : Keylight Books; 1st edition (March 18, 2025)
Hardcover : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 1684426561
ISBN-13 : 978-1684426560
Paperback : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 1684426502
ISBN-13 : 978-1684426508
Digital ASIN : B0DPL47ZV5
About Murder Strikes A Chord
Veronica Mars meets The Golden Girls as event planner Cassidy Jamison and her four sixty-year-old employees race to solve a rocker’s murder before the curtains close on their show and their business.
When Cassidy Jamison inherited her late grandmother’s event planning business, she also inherited her grandmother’s friends—four sixty-year-old women known around town as the Pearly Girls—as part-time employees. Now Cassidy barely has time to breathe between spending every waking hour trying to keep her business afloat and the Pearly Girls out of trouble and focused on event planning.
So when she lands a three-weekend event complete with a chart-topping band, she’s thrilled. Until she and her chihuahua mix Elvis find the body of the Weathermen’s lead singer in her venue’s koi pond. With the help of the not-so-helpful Pearly Girls, Cassidy must stave off the bad publicity, navigate the prying questions of the local police department, and solve the murder before the media frenzy shutters her business for good, and takes one of the Pearly Girls with it.
GUEST POST
Movies about Writers and Writing by Heather Weidner
Looking for a good movie? I am always looking for movies to record or to highlight on the streaming services. Here is my list of films about all kinds of writers and writing.
- Absence of Malice
- Almost Famous
- Barton Fink
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- Capote
- Deconstructing Harry
- Finding Forrester
- Finding Neverland
- Gothic
- Hannah and Her Sisters
- Julie and Julia
- Marley and Me
- Midnight in Paris
- Misery
- Moulin Rouge
- Naked Lunch
- Romancing the Stone
- Shadowlands
- Shakespeare in Love
- She-Devil
- Sideways
- Sunset Boulevard
- Sylvia
- The Ghost Writer
- The Help
- The Hours
- The Jewel of the Nile
- The Shining
- The World According to Garp
- Throw Momma from the Train
- Tom & Viv
- Under the Tuscan Sn
- Wonder Boys
What else would you add to my list? What are your favorites?
About Heather Weidner
Through the years, Heather Weidner has been a cop’s kid, technical writer, editor, college professor, software tester, and IT manager. She writes the Pearly Girls Mysteries, the Delanie Fitzgerald Mysteries, The Jules Keene Glamping Mysteries, and The Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mysteries.
Her short stories appear in the Virginia is for Mysteries series, 50 Shades of Cabernet, Deadly Southern Charm, and Murder by the Glass, and she has non-fiction pieces in Promophobia and The Secret Ingredient: A Mystery Writers’ Cookbook.
She is a member of Sisters in Crime: National, Central Virginia, Chessie, Guppies, and Grand Canyon Writers, International Thriller Writers, and James River Writers, and she blogs regularly with the Writers Who Kill.
Originally from Virginia Beach, Heather has been a mystery fan since Scooby-Doo and Nancy Drew. She lives in Central Virginia with her husband and a pair of Jack Russell terriers.
Social Media Links
Website and Blog: http://www.heatherweidner.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HeatherWeidnerAuthor
Threads: https://www.threads.net/@heather_mystery_writer
BlueSky: Heather Weidner (@heatherweidner.bsky.social) — Bluesky
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@heather_weidner_author
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heather_mystery_writer/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8121854.Heather_Weidner
Amazon Authors: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00HOYR0MQ
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/HeatherBWeidner/
BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/heather-weidner-d6430278-c5c9-4b10-b911-340828fc7003
Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/HeatherWeidner1
Purchase Links – Amazon – B&N – Bookshop.org
Ruff Drafts 