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The Rainbow's Foot | Annie and The Grateful Dead
Footprints in the
Butter | Audio Theater Performance of Footprints in the Butter
Soap Bubbles | Strangle a Loaf of Italian Bread
Chain a Lambchop to the Bed | Eye
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Fifty Cents for Your Soul | Throw
Darts at a Cheesecake | Beat Up A Cookie
James Dean and the Moonlight Madness Sale
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The Rainbow's Foot : A Colorado Saga |
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Reviews for The Rainbow's Foot : A Colorado Saga “Set against the backdrop of the gold rush and the dawn of Hollywood, The Rainbow’s Foot features a large cast of compelling characters, an ambitious span of time, and emotional depth.” -- Publishers Weekly "Filled with the essences of the setting, blending love, hate, passion, reserve, greed, self-sacrifice, human frailty and strength, The Rainbow's Foot is a tightly written saga of human experience." -- FictionForest "Through a brilliantly conceived and executed narrative, Flo and Cat's story unfolds, beginning well before their births, and moving inexorably and compellingly toward a conclusion which is as satisfying as any I've ever read. The Rainbow's Foot deserves a place in the archives of great fiction." -- Affaire de Coeur - 5 1/2 stars "I have never read a book quite like THE RAINBOW'S FOOT, never met a heroine quite like Fools Gold, but I am overjoyed that I have read the work, met the heroine. It is an excellent book, but the reader should be warned: You won't be able to put this down once you've started." -- Under The Covers |
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Annie and The Grateful Dead Anthony Award Nominated Short Story by Denise Dietz |
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Grateful Dead, a “pop culture” cat (he watches TV a lot), helps foil a cat-show robbery and, in the process, solves a cold-case murder. Kindle edition available at Amazon.com
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Throw Darts at a
Cheesecake #1 in the Diet Club Mystery Series by Denise Dietz |
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One by one a diet club's biggest losers are being murdered. Is some jealous member of the Friday meeting a secret killer? Could this be a demented psycho's weight-loss tecnique---eliminate the competition? Diet club leader Ellie Bernstein has to watch her back as well as her calories before she finds herself on the most permanent diet of all...death. "This mystery features zany characters and zippy one-liners..." "Denise Dietz proves that losing weight can be a killer." "A bright and funny new heroine, brisk and clever
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Beat
Up a Cookie #2 in the Diet Club Mystery Series by Denise Dietz Also Available in Large Print |
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Ellie Bernstein is still a fan of the TV series M*A*S*H. So are a lot of other people in Colorado Springs. After having lost fifty-five (and a half!) pounds, Ellie sure looks a lot like Hot Lips, but that claim to fame might prove dangerous. There's a killer on the loose, and the show's look-alikes are being murdered. "Clever and amusing..." Publishers Weekly
"Bernstein is a wonderful heroine...now that she's gotten rid of her philandering husband and kept off those extra 55 pounds, she can revel in her job, her earthy affair with Lt. Peter Miller, and her search for the killer." Kirkus |
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Chain a Lamb Chop to the Bed |
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Strangle a Loaf of Italian Bread When Barbra Streisand clone, Sara Lee, is strangled with a Daffy Duck necktie, prior to the open auditions for a community theatre production of Hello, Dolly!, diet club leader Ellie Bernstein wants to know why everybody didn’t like Sara Lee. Ellie’s significant other, homicide detective Peter Miller, wants her to keep her lovely, overly sensitive nose out of his business. He’s deathly afraid he’ll find her trashed in the Dumpster that overshadows the alley in back of Uncle Vinnie’s Gourmet Italian Restaurant—the backdrop for Sara Lee’s murder. But Ellie doggedly pursues a rollercoaster of clues, even though her daily routine is disrupted by a Border Collie named Scout Finch Lester. Ellie—who has never been owned by a dog—agrees to dog-sit a diet club member’s beloved pet. Only problem is, Scout’s owner seems to have disappeared into Thin air. Eventually, Ellie’s search for Sara Lee’s killer lands her at the Hello, Dolly! auditions. Only problem is, Ellie can’t sing or dance... |
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Praise for Strangle a Loaf of Italian bread "Denise Dietz is like Robert B. Parker on estrogen. Her heroine, diet guru Ellie Bernstein, is fiendishly clever and uproariously funny. Trust me, this is not your maiden auntie’s murder mystery." ~ Marshall Karp, The Rabbit Factory
"Denise Dietz creates real characters who act like people. She gives you a puzzling mystery. She writes dialogue that sounds like people talking. And she's funny. What else do you want?" ~ Jeffrey Cohen, author of the Double Feature Mystery series
"Animals abound in the book, from Ellie's black Persian cat, Jackie Robinson; Rachel's border collie; a fictional menagerie of seven cats, named for the days of the week; Ellie's mother's six cats, charmingly named Danielle Steele, Victoria Gordon, Nora Roberts, Lorna Ann Jakes, Maggie Osborne and Marty Blue, most of which names should be familiar to readers of the present novel. 'Charming' is one of the best ways to describe the entire novel, which presents an interesting plot, characters and dialogue... Food figures prominently in the book. The narrative is lightly sprinkled with recipes, and many of the characters are of the weight-conscious variety, as might be expected in a series where the female protagonist is the head of a local Weight Winners diet club. [The title is derived from a line by the late Gilda Radner, a worthy muse: "Eating is self-punishment, punish the food instead. Strangle a loaf of Italian bread . . ."] Ya gotta love it." ~ Gloria Feit for Spinetingler Magazine, Crimespree Magazine, and Midwest Book Review "With a deft hand, author Dietz navigates readers through a morass of clues, false trails, time-worn clichés and some intriguing characters in a laugh-out-loud story that is bound to capture readers by page two. The secret appears to be the character of Ellie Bernstein, who, while traipsing about town interviewing people, obsesses about missing Jeopardy programs, and relationships between dogs and cats. Readers may not learn any secrets of the universe or how to manage inter-personal relationships, but they'll have a very pleasant time in this exceedingly well-crafted novel with a fine mystery at its core."
~ Carl Brookins
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Siren Audio Studios proudly presents a Full Cast Audio Theatre Performance of FOOTPRINTS IN THE BUTTER, based on the Bestselling book by Denise Dietz Ingrid Beaumont's 30th high school class reunion turns up a few surprises. Her friend, world renowned artist, Wylie Jamestown, turns up dead, her ex-husband turns up alive, and her high school sweetheart turns up at her door. Wylie's love of riddles forces Ingrid to turn sleuth if she wants to keep the killer from turning her life completely upside down. Original music inspired by the author's book and heroine's hit single "Clowns" is brought to life by composer/producer Bill Royal and performed by Boulevard Lane: Angela Andazola & Bill Royal: www.BoulevardLane.com |
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Soap Bubbles is an array of mystery, romance and legal drama. Often funny, sometimes shocking, Soap Bubbles depicts the glitzy microcosm of TV’s daytime drama, where rampant sexuality vies with an almost obscene lust for influence and power. Set during the 60s and 70s, a whole generation springs to life in this brash, voguish classic reminiscent of Jacqueline Susann and Judith Krantz. |
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Praise for Soap Bubbles "A fictional soap opera brings three friends joy and headaches in a nostalgic...glitzy... thriller..."
“In Dietz’s Soap Bubbles, Valley Of The Dolls meets General Hospital meets a glitzy, very pregnant pair of Cagney and Laceys in a bang up, sexy, entertaining read full of characters who don’t let go when you close the book.” “Denise Dietz once again proves herself the diva of witty dialogue and whiplash plot twists in this fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the soap operas we all love. Soap Bubbles is a richly detailed story with believable characters and a story line full of surprises.” “What’s a nice guy like me doing, reading a novel full of kaleidoscopic sins, behind-the-scenes show biz turned inside out, and story twists and surprises piled one on top of the next? Having a glorious time, that’s what. Thank you, Ms. Dietz.” |
Soap Bubbles 
When Deni was in the third grade, she wrote her first story, THE 
PENCIL WHO GREW UP TO BE A STUB. Although the assignment was to write a one-page story, using an ink pen, Deni wrote a five-page story, first-person...and she used a pencil. Whereupon, she received a failing grade for not following orders. Just like her heroine Jenny, in STARS OF FIRE, and her fictitious diet guru, Ellie Bernstein, Deni doesn't follow orders unless they make sense. 
Switching to a computer, Deni hit the bestseller list with FOOTPRINTS IN THE BUTTER - an Ingrid Beaumont Mystery co-starring Hitchcock the Dog. She followed that success with her stand-alone, FIFTY CENTS FOR YOUR SOUL, her "reluctant witch mystery," EYE OF NEWT, and the 3rd and 4th books in her diet club mystery series, CHAIN A LAMB CHOP TO THE BED and STRANGLE A LOAF OF ITALIAN BREAD. 
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