The Stray Pitch

<h4><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Wendy Winkworth is a spirited heroine who's as tough as she is resourceful.</em></strong></h4><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It's the summer of 1950 Burton City Iowa and twenty-four-year-old Wendy Winkworth has a PI license but absolutely no clients. That changes the morning she reads about the murder of Betty Jane Wadlow-star pitcher for the Burton City Hornettes and the brightest talent in the Star-Spangled Girls Baseball League.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When the team's owner hires Wendy to investigate from the inside she finds herself in the most unlikely undercover assignment of her fledgling career: suiting up as a utility player on a professional women's baseball team. Her baseball skills are questionable at best. Her detective instincts however are sharper than anyone gives her credit for.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As Wendy navigates the tight-knit world of the Hornettes-with its jealousies romances and whispered rivalries-she uncovers a web of motives that stretches well beyond the diamond. A missing gold necklace. A jar of crimson paint. A cryptic word scrawled on a riverside boulder. And a killer who has every reason to make sure Wendy never puts the pieces together.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sharp funny and richly atmospheric The Stray Pitch is the first novel in the beloved Wendy Winkworth Mystery series-a pitch-perfect blend of historical fiction classic whodunit and irresistible wit.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Winspear Susan Elia MacNeal and classic amateur sleuth mysteries set in mid-century America.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Books in the Wendy Winkworth series:</strong></p><ul><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book 1: The Stray Pitch</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book 2: Bubbles Roses and Rump</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book 3: Switching Sides</span></li></ul><p></p>