My first comedic mystery,
Skating Around The Law 
will hit shelves on Sept. 28th from
St. Martin's/Minotaur.


Praise for
Skating Around The Law

"Funny and sexy with a teasing mystery.   Janet Evanovich fans will find Charbonneau’s debut a good fix while they’re waiting for Stephanie Plum’s latest." Kirkus Reviews

"Let Joelle Charbonneau skate into your imagination with her sparkling mystery featuring a spirited heroine and a small town populated with lively characters.   Joelle is a charmer of a writer."   -NY Times Best Selling Author, Susan Elizabeth Phillips

"A delightful, top-notch debut mystery with a charmingly witty heroine, a smoking hot hero, and a cast of characters—both animal and human—guaranteed to keep you. smiling.  Ms. Charbonneau has created a heroine you’ll be rooting for as she tries to solve a murder and come to terms with the hometown she thought she’d left behind.  Skating Around the Law is a must read for all fans of Janet Evanovich."    -Victoria Thompson, author of Murder on Waverly Place


"Fast and furiously funny, Joelle Charbonneau's debut mystery, Skating Around the Law, is a cozy with attitude.  Heroine Rebecca Robbins is a big city girl back in her home town to sell her late mom's skating rink, an emotionally complicated job made more so by the dead guy face down in the rink's toilet.  Becky takes to solving the case with irrepressible verve and self-deprecating humor, helped along by a full cast of quirky small-town characters. In fact, Skating Around The Law is as much an explication of small town life, with all its charms and annoyances, as it is a page-turner of the amateur slueth variety.  And in the finest cozy tradition, no cats were harmed in the writing of this book, though a camel gets a little roughed up."
- Chris Knopf, author of Short Squeeze and the Sam Acquillo mysteries.


"Joelle Charbonneau pulls out all the toe stops in her masterful debut mystery, SKATING AROUND THE LAW.  Fun filled and rife with small town characters, SKATING has a fun mystery, an exciting love interest and is not to be missed." -Carolyn Haines, author of The Sara Booth Delany Mysteries



"A tip of the hat to Joelle Charbonneau and her sprightly, delightful debut mystery.  It is sure to charm." 
-Carolyn Hart, author of Ghost in Trouble


"Joelle Charbonneau’s new sleuth skates circles around cops, clues, and small town cranks in this dizzying roller rink mystery.  Mystery readers will love the quirky and comic characters."  -Ellen Byerrum, author of the Crimes of Fashion Mysteries 
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