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Why would a mystery novel be like if it crossed the show The Marvelous Mrs. with lesbian mysteries such as The Seven Lives of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Reid Jenkins? My novel Catskill Scoops: A Deputy Georgia Batsheva Walker Mystery does just that. It captures with humor and pathos of a unique time and place, the Catskill mountains of New York, known as the "Borscht Belt." In its heyday, there were upwards of five hundred hotels and fifty-thousand bungalow colonies. It was a wacky, delightful place. I know. I grew up there. Georgia becomes the first Deputy Sheriff in Sullivan County in the late nineteen-eighties. She's raised on a farm with a mother who escaped an Ultra-Conservative Hassidic community and a father who escaped an evangelical community. She's a "scooper," the derogatory term used by the rich kids for the kids raised on farms. From high school on, she's conflicted about her attraction to women. She's also conflicted about her involvement hotel girls. One in particular, Cassie Spellman the grand-daughter of Max Spellman, owner of Spellman, is snobby and a bully. Georgie's ongoing relationship with Cassie is central to the book. Stay tuned for the evolution of this book. See more about me in the bio section. Look at my awards and publication. Thanks, LInda