Book excerpt: Previously published as Murder and a Texas Brisket by Sweet Promise Press. If you like wacky mystery adventures with a touch of southern midlife-sass, you’ll love Midlife, Misadventure, and Murder. A Texas vacation turns deadly when a BBQ competition judge ends up dead. In Texas for a brisket cooking competition, Georgia gal Beatrice O’Rourke and her eccentric friend Marlin get more than they bargained for when they stumble into a murder plot. Can Beatrice put the clues together before she and Marlin become next on the murderer’s menu?