Strange things are happening on the History and Gardens of Virginia Tour. Are they odd misadventures? Harmless pranks? Or does somebody have murder in mind?Ex-Texas cop Roxanne Prescott thought she'd moved into a more genteel line of work, leading the well-heeled on educational tours for her aunt's travel agency. But as the group, which she has mentally nicknamed the Guns and Roses Tour, moves from Mount Vernon to Monticello, a practical joker targets the tourists. In Colonial Williamsburg the pranks escalate with deadly results. Roxanne must figure out which of her group is a killer hiding behind a genial facade."Guns and Roses" is a cozy mystery with an edge, first in the Mysterious Travels Series. Author Taffy Cannon's knowledge of the South and her acerbic wit enliven this classic closed-circle-of-suspects mystery. Taffy Cannon is the author of fifteen novels, including "Convictions: A Novel of the Sixties" and five travel mysteries: "Guns and Roses," "Murder Will Travel," "Murder Pans Out," "Fall Into Death," and "Keys to Death."California State Bar attorney investigator Nan Robinson is featured in "A Pocketful of Karma," "Tangled Roots," and "Class Reunions Are Murder." Her stand-alone Southern California mysteries are "Open Season on Lawyers," "Paradise Lost," and "Blood Matters." She completed "The Tumbleweed Murders," begun by her late colleague Rebecca Rothenberg, and wrote an Academy Award-nominated short film, "Doubletalk."Her nonfiction books are "Caregiving 101" and "SibCare: The Trip You Never Planned to Take."Taffy Cannon is a Chicago native and graduate of Duke University. She has lived in southern California for most of her adult life and was honored as Carlsbad Citizen of the Year for managing the Friends Bookstore at the Carlsbad City Library

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