Twisted Minds

A woman is found dead in the wetlands outside of Lakeside City, Michigan. When the town learns the nature of the markings on the dead body, panic rages through the community. And when citizens discover that the dead woman was a lesbian, and that her lover happens to be a local high school teacher and girl’s coach, bedlam breaks out in this ultra conservative community on the shores of Lake Michigan.

Private investigator Kera Van Brocklin has her hands full. She’s trying to prove that her client, the high school teacher, didn’t kill her lovernot an easy task in a town of bigotry and right-wing fanaticism. If that weren’t enough, Kera’s personal life isn’t going so well either. She fears that her girlfriend, Mandy, is leaving her for another woman.

Trying to prove her client’s innocence by finding the killer, Kera is drawn into the web of a demented murderer who is ready and willing to kill again.

Twisted Minds is the sequel to A Venomous Cocktail.

Growing up, Jody Valley wrote poetry and short stories to bare her teenage rebellious soulin lieu of a journal. She wanted to be either a spy or a reporter, and to never give up her skepticism. When her family frowned on her entering the field of espionage, she settled for becoming a clinical social workerfulfilling her need to spyand writing columns and feature stores for newspapers, as well as fighting for social justice. And now, Jody has combined her years as a journalist with her years as a clinical social worker and a social activist to write her first suspenseful mystery novel.
She lives with her partner of twenty-four years, and three dogs. Together, they have four adult children and two adorable granddaughterswith another granddaughter on the way. She does much of her writing at her cabin on a lake in northern Michigan.