Sandra Balzo

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Coming January 1, 2019

Coffee, a canine and a corpse

A bad feeling leads to an even worse discovery when Maggy tries to return a Chihuahua to its owners in the new coffeehouse mystery.

In the latest installment of the Maggy Thorsen mysteries, coffee shop owner Maggy confronts a number of mysterious deaths and has an important decision to make about her future with Sheriff Jake Pavlik in The Important of Being Urnest, which Publishers Weekly calls "Balzo's witty 10th mystery… has loads of eccentric suspects and juicy motives, and the clues are wrapped in lively conversation.”

From Publishers Lunch . . .

Film Rights Optioned

Sandra Balzo's GROUNDS FOR MURDER, set in a small-town coffee house, featuring a sleuth-owner and her colorful friends and customers of Uncommon Grounds, to Hartwell Media/Robert Halmi Jr. (Farscape) producer, by Nancy Yost at Nancy Yost Literary Agency.

A Little About Sandy...
Sandra Balzo turned to mystery writing after twenty years in corporate public relations, event management and publicity in Wisconsin. Murder a la Mocha, her eleventh Maggy Thorsen coffeehouse mystery, will be released September 28 in the UK and January 1 in the US. The series has been optioned for development as a possible television series or film.

Hit and Run is the third book in the Main Street Murder series, set in the popular vacation destination of North Carolina’s High Country.

Latest News

Cover for Murder a la Mocha

Posted on 7/18/2018

The long and short(haired) of it

New Book Out Now, The Important of Being Urnest

Posted on 12/1/2017

Get ready for your next great read - author Sandra Balzo has written her 10^th novel featuring heroine Maggy Thorsen, The Important of Being Urnest, came out in December.

What's the Story on TO THE LAST DROP

Posted on 11/2/2016

In this month's Southern Writers

Farewell to a fabulous friend

Posted on 10/27/2016

Mystery icon Ed Gorman dies

SE WI Festival of Books

Posted on 10/21/2016

November 4 & 5