The Scientist, the Psychic, and the Nut
Beth Armstrong, a bio-medical research scientist, insists on discovering the identity of her real father, irritating her neglected husband, Harold. Beth books a long over-due vacation, hoping to repair their marriage, but Harold’s frustrations rises. He believes she’s only on a quest to find information about her father, not to rekindle their lost passion. From the start their island adventure is doomed. After being accosted and robbed by a thug, Beth meets an old woman who knows more than she tells, while a young girl whose mother has disappeared enchants Beth. However a gang of barefoot boys on an old boat fire up some toxic trouble, causing Beth and Harold’s diving adventure to turn deadly. Beth knows her marriage is lost along with the identity of her father unless she stops the murderer and convinces Harold of her devotion before their dream vacation becomes a lethal nightmare.
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Charlene Bell Dietz, a retired educator, taught kindergarten through high school, served as a school administrator, and became an adjunct instructor for the College of Santa Fe. After retirement, she traveled the United States as an educational consultant. During her leisure time she assisted the paleontologists of the New Mexico Museum of Natural Science and History in the search for and excavation of dinosaurs and worked in their fossil collection laboratory. She also founded the New Mexico Friends of Paleontology. Because of her passion for science, she contributed over twenty-five years as the community lay person on Loveless Respiratory Institute’s Animal Care and Use Committee at Sandia National Laboratories. She now lives in the foothills of the Manzano Mountains in central New Mexico where she finds night skies dark, wildlife abundant, and the silence abounds.