Monday's Murder

Mondays are seriously bad days for Megan Malone, owner of a travel agency in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago. She stumbles across a murder victim and recognizes the man fleeing the scene as the same man who has scammed her agency. She's threatened and firebombed, locked in a closet at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, and dumped by Matthew Ganzer, the Homicide Detective she's fallen in love with - all on Mondays one spring.

Mondays are seriously bad days for Megan Malone, owner of a travel agency in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago. She stumbles across a murder victim and recognizes the man fleeing the scene as the same man who has scammed her agency. She's threatened and firebombed, locked in a closet at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, and dumped by Matthew Ganzer, the Homicide Detective she's fallen in love with - all on Mondays one spring. Her quirky friends, Bertie the florist, Dahlia co-owner of her travel agency, Yoo Hoo the neighbor, and Matthew's partner, Steve, save their lives in the riveting unfolding of the rest of the murder case while Megan and Matthew must come to terms with their true feelings for each other as the case wraps up.

Judy Broderick was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She has a business degree from Loyola University and attended the University of Iowa Summer Writing Festival. She worked in the travel industry for more than thirty years, the last seventeen in various management positions for Carlson Wagonlit Travel, including Chicago's Regional Vice President of Operations and Director of two Carlson Travel Academies. She and her husband, Dennis, currently live in Warsaw, Indiana. This is her first novel.