Day 25 of virtual book tour: Picture Perfect by Cheryl Kaye Tardif

With one week left of my 'Touring the World' virtual book tour, I want to give you more samples of my work. Today's shocking short is one of my personal favorites, and the first short story of mine that Amazon picked up for their Amazon Shorts program.

So here's a sneak peek...

Picture Perfect

© 2006 Cheryl Kaye Tardif

When my sister, Belle, vanished back in 1956, I lost more than you could possibly imagine. And in the last fifty years, I've never told anyone what I saw. That summer day, I lost a part of my family, a piece of my heart…and I think I lost my soul as well.

In 1956, on the morning of the Calgary Summer Carnival, my baby sister and I were so giddy with excitement that our mother threatened to ground us for bad behavior. There's no worse punishment on the face of this earth than being left behind on Summer Carnival day.

Well, maybe there's one worse thing...

Check out the excerpt at Criminal Minds at Work.

Welcome to Cheryl Kaye Tardif's Mystery Blog!

This is my new, improved blog....and it'll probably prove to be as much a mystery to me as it will be to you.

I am hoping to add new blog posts every Monday to fill you in on what I'm writing, what I'm doing other than writing, where I'll be signing books, my newest release, and anything else that escapes the 'mystery' that I call my brain.

Please be sure to check out my new improved website at http://www.cherylktardif.com sometime after June 27th, as it is completely being overhauled.

Someone mentioned to me awhile ago that for a mystery writer, my website looked a little too friendly.

So, I figured it's best to correct that now, right before the launch of my newest thriller.

The River is now set to be released sometime in September. The date had to be pushed back a bit because I am doing everything to make this my BEST novel to date! And I hope you'll agree!

The River is an action-packed techno-thriller that takes place on the Nahanni River in Canada's Northwest Territories. Based on actual stories of headless corpses and bodies washed up on the Nahanni's shores (along with some mysterious disappearances), The River gives a gruesome, nail-biting explanation to an area some refer to as Canada's Bermuda Triangle.

Check out The River at http://www.cherylktardif.com/the_river.htm

Also, please check out Whale Song, my debut novel which has captured the hearts of people of all ages in many countries. Whale Song is currently being considered by a film producer and a screenplay is in construction.



Whale Song is an emotional mystery about a young girl who loses her memory after a terrible tragedy changes her life forever.

And you can check out the first in my Divine series that has been compared to J.D. Robb's 'In Death' series. J.D. Robb, as some of you will know, is Nora Roberts' pen name, so to be at all compared to her is a huge honor!

Divine Intervention introduces a new kind of government agency, the PSI division. These psychic agents work secretly to solve serial cases across Canada and in other countries. Jasmine McLellan is one the key agents, a pyro-pschic who can read the remnants of a fire and see through the arsonist's eyes.



Check out Divine Intervention, a scorching psi-fi mystery with a burning twist!

If you love a good mystery, I invite you to check out my novels and my website!

~Cheryl Kaye Tardif, Canadian Mystery Author
Edmonton, Alberta