THE REALTOR'S CURSE

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Winner of 2022 FIREBIRD BOOK AWARDS: 1st Place for both MYSTERY AND HUMOR categories</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dr. Jason Longfellow Private Eye and amateur sleuth and wife Chelsea travel to the Sunshine State to buy a vacation home. While touring beautiful resort communities near the beach they encounter some very aggressive realtors. </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Why are the realtors so angry</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>? Is Jason really that annoying? Then their search turns deadly and </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>the bodies start piling up</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. Jason and Chelsea take a break from the stress of house hunting by trying the many recreational opportunities that Florida has to offer; boating fishing a Harley rental kiteboarding and off-roading. </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Maybe Florida really is trying to kill Jason.</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Throw in a hurricane boat chase alligators galore and a very friendly manatee and you have a </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>non-stop action murder mystery</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. Jason has been at the scene of so many dead realtors he's beginning to believe that he's actually the prime suspect; Chelsea's having similar thoughts. Has Jason found the killer? Or has Chelsea solved the case? </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What if anything does this have to do with killer mosquitoes? It's medical biotechnology run amok. Florida will never be the same!</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>About the Author</strong></p><p>Dr. John J Jessop spent 40 years as a pharmacologist working for the medical biotech and pharmaceutical industries (both FDA and the industry side). In retirement he has chosen to redirect his knowledge and experience towards the writing of the perfect murder mystery. He is currently working on two mystery series a <strong>medical comedy murder mystery</strong> series which he calls <strong>Biotech Murder Mysteries</strong> (PLEASURIA: TAKE AS DIRECTED MURDER BY ROAD TRIP and now THE REALTOR'S CURSE) and a <strong>dark murder mystery series</strong> (The GUARDIAN ANGEL series).</p><p><strong>The biotech murder mystery series examines the humorous side of what can go wrong when scientists play around with our DNA immune system and cells to create medicines.</strong> This series includes Dr. Jason Longfellow PI a bored FDA reviewer who much to his wife's dismay gets his private eye license and works as an amateur sleuth on weekends.</p><p>Two books in the dark murder mystery series (The GUARDIAN ANGEL series) involve the evilest of villains a serial killer and an elusive cult leader who kidnaps young women and loves snakes and his mother.</p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>John J Jessop and his wife live in St. Augustine Florida. His favorite things are writing walks on the beach driving his Subaru WRX boating fishing taking naps and visiting with his two loving daughters. His favorite authors are Robert B. Parker and J.A. Jance. His youngest daughter uses her degree in Media Arts and Design and minor in English to help with editing and to design his book covers. She also co-wrote Murder by Road Trip with him based on a 30-day cross country road trip they took together in July of 2016.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>