Beth Groundwater



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Full Name:
Groundwater, Beth
Home State:
CO
Personal Blog Link:
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Welcome Note

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Author Bio

Beth Groundwater writes the Claire Hanover gift basket designer mystery series (A Real Basket Case, nominated for the 2007 Best First Novel Agatha Award, and To Hell in a Handbasket, May, 2009) and the Rocky Mountain Outdoor Adventures mystery series (Deadly Currents, March, 2011 and Wicked Eddies, to be released in May, 2012). She lives in Colorado and enjoys its many outdoor activities, including skiing and whitewater rafting.

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Bibliography

Deadly Currents
Author: Beth Groundwater
Published: March 8, 2011 by Midnight Ink
Series Name: RM Outdoor Adventures
Category: mystery
Main Character: Mandy Tanner

The Arkansas River is the heart and soul of Salida, Colorado. It fuels the small town's economy and thrums in the blood of twenty-seven-year-old Mandy Tanner, a river ranger. When a whitewater rafting accident occurs, she deftly executes a rescue, but a man dies anyway. But it wasn't the river rapids that killed him, it was poison. Tom King was a rich land developer with bitter business rivals, who cheated on his wife, refused to support his kayak-obsessed son, and infuriated environmentalists.

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The Epsilon Eridani Alternative
Author: Beth Groundwater
Published: December 7, 2009 by Virtual Tales
Category: futuristic thriller

This science fiction novella explores a timely ethical issue--the use of stem cells for medical research--with a futuristic twist. Space colonists face the dilemma of whether to harvest stem cells from alien infants to counteract the effects of human aging.


"Entertaining and thought-provoking.  Groundwater uses engaging characters to adeptly contrast the intellectual, biological, and emotional urges we have to protect our species." -- Laura E. Reeve, author of the Major Ariane Kedros Novels


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To Hell in a Handbasket
Author: Beth Groundwater
Published: May 15, 2009 by Five Star
Series Name: Claire Hanover, gift basket designer, mystery series
Category: Cozy, Traditional, Craft
Main Character: Claire Hanover
In this sequel to A Real Basket Case, Colorado Springs gift basket designer Claire Hanover takes a spring ski vacation in Breckenridge, Colorado, with her family. The vacation quickly goes to hell in a handbasket when the sister of her daughter's boyfriend is killed on the ski slope. Others think an out-of-control snowboarder slammed into her, but just before the ski patrol arrived, Claire saw another pair of ski tracks that veered into the young woman's. Claire passes her findings on to an initially skeptical sheriff's detective.
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