Deb Richardson-Moore Launch Party With Fiction Addiction

Deb Richardson-Moore, author of The Weight of Mercy, will celebrate the launch of her debut novel, The Cantaloupe Thief, on Tuesday, May 31st, at 5:30pm at Cafe and Then Some in downtown Greenville.

Fiction Addiction will have books for sale at the event.

The decade-old death of matriarch Alberta Grambling Resnick is the only unsolved murder in Grambling, Georgia. With the passage of time, townspeople assumed the deed had been committed by a transient with no real motive or ties to the community. Newspaper reporter Branigan Powers wants to explore that theory by investigating among the town’s homeless population. Even she thinks it’s a long shot – until homeless people start dying.

As the action careens from northeast Georgia to the Carolina coast, from posh homes to hidden encampments, Branigan is racked by fear that she has awakened a murderer. Desperate, she seeks help from Malachi Ezekiel Martin, a homeless veteran who glides unseen through the town. But can she trust him?

The Cantaloupe Thief is a murder mystery but not like one you’ve read before. It asks what happens when people are invisible. What impact does that have on the rest of us?

The novel is the first in a new mystery series by Deb Richardson-Moore. The author is a former journalist and works extensively with the homeless, lending weight to the portrayal of a believable and engaging whodunit.