About The Ambivalent Corpse by Jerold Last:
Meet Roger and Suzanne in their formative years in Book #1 of the popular series. Private detective Roger Bowman and his girlfriend scientist Suzanne Foster find themselves traveling through Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina to solve a baffling and grotesque murder case. Parts of a dismembered corpse are found on a rocky stretch of beach in Montevideo, Uruguay, apportioned equally between Memorials (which really exist) to the Graf Spee, a German cruiser sunk in World War II, and the Holocaust. Because of the murder victim’s strategic location shared between two antithetical monuments, the Uruguayan press names her “The Ambivalent Corpse”. This fast-paced thriller is a suspenseful whodunit set in an exotic locale. While the novel is basically a tough mystery story, it adheres to the cozy conventions of clean language and no explicit sex. The Ambivalent Corpse is a suspenseful, full-length, mystery thriller available for this promotion at the reduced price of just $0.99.
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Author Bio:
The author is a Professor at the University of California’s Medical School at Davis in Northern California. Jerry writes “tweener” mystery books (tough mystery stories that follow the cozy conventions of no graphic sex and no cussing), all published as e-books on Amazon Kindle. Several of the books introduce the readers to South America, a region where he has lived and worked that is a long way from home for most English speakers. He and his wife Elaine lived previously in Salta, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay. Jerry selects the most interesting Latin American locations he found for Roger and Suzanne to visit while solving miscellaneous murders. Montevideo, Salta, Machu Picchu, Cuba, the Galapagos Islands, and Iguazu Falls are also characters in these books, and the novels portray these places as vivid and real. Jerry and Elaine also breed prize-winning German shorthaired pointer dogs; Elaine also provides technical advice for Jerry’s dog-related novels as well as editing for all of the books.