This week, Susie Black’s Saturday Author Spotlight shines on cozy mystery author Jinx Schwartz.
About the author: Best-selling author Jinx Schwartz has written twenty books, including book 15 in the Hetta Coffey Series. Hetta Coffey is a sassy Texan with a snazzy yacht. A ninth-generation Texan, Jinx has lived and worked all over the globe, and like the protagonist in her Hetta Coffey mystery series, she navigated her boat in the Sea of Cortez for thirty years.
Just Add Salt is candidly one of Susie Black’s favorite Hetta Coffey stories. Here is a blurb to whet your appetite:
Hetta Coffey is a sassy Texan with a snazzy yacht, and she’s not afraid to use it! A globe-trotting engineer with attitude, a penchant for trouble, and a yacht, Hetta is back, and this time she’s steering us into hot Mexican waters. Miffed that vacation plans with her chronically absent boyfriend, Jenks Jenkins, have gone awry, she accepts a job in Baja. Hiring a handsome, if somewhat fishy, captain for the trip might keep them off the rocks, but it probably won’t do the same for her future with Jenks. Meanwhile, a little eye candy on board can’t be all bad. Hetta’s fierce independence impels her to tackle a very profitable (if environmentally and politically incorrect) project south of the border. True to form, her irreverent nature and disregard for danger soon swamps her in a sea of mayhem, illegal aliens, a pesky whale, and a menacing Mexican bad guy.
Here is Susie’s review of Just Add Salt:
Fast-paced and absolutely hilarious, Just Add Salt takes readers on a breathless ocean adventure to Mexico chock-full of international intrigue, a deadly hurricane, and a lovesick whale courting Hetta Coffey’s boat. Author Jinx Schwartz has penned a laugh-out-loud tale with a cast of zany characters who readers will fall in love with one moment and want to smack upside their heads the next. This madcap escapade features a macho rent-a-Captain with Lucy and Ethel as the crew, on a cruise where whatever could go wrong would go wrong. Schwartz liberally peppers Hetta’s antics with snappy dialogue that is spicier than hot salsa. With snarky banter between sassy Hetta and Jan, her BFF, the plot runs at a breakneck pace, with Hetta and Jan getting themselves out of one mess only to fall into a bigger one. Add the author’s detailed knowledge of sailing and the social mores of Baja California to the foibles, and you’ve bought yourself a ticket to take a rollercoaster-worthy wild ride. Fast-moving and adventurous, Just Add Salt is more fun than whacking a piñata.
https://www.amazon.com/Just-Salt-Hetta-Coffey-Book-ebook/dp
