Death at Grizzly Bowl

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Death at Grizzly Bowl, a Ken and Elena mystery, has just been published.  Elena and Rachel were skiing at Grizzly Bowl when a snowboarder hit Rachel with a pipe. Rachel died while in the hospital, and Elena vowed to find the killer. Elena enlisted Ken to help investigate the four possible suspects. Was it her ex-husband or his snowboarding wife, an obsessed former colleague, or someone that didn't want her talking to the IRS about the money laundering at her work? 

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