Book signing at La Marina Cafe

Oregon author Tom Towslee will be selling and signing copies of his novel "Paradise Girls" at the La Marina Café on Paseo del Pescador on January 30th from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

"Paradise Girls" is a mystery/suspense novel set mostly in Zihuatanejo and Ixtapa. It tells the story of freelance writer John Standard. He is suffering from post-traumatic stress after having narrowly escaped death at the hands of a brutal serial killer. He travels from his home in Oregon to Zihuatanejo, Mexico, to recuperate. While there, he finds himself drafted into a search for the missing granddaughter of an Oregon millionaire. It is suspected that she has become one of the Paradise Girls -young American girls who are kidnapped from their homes and forced into prostitution in Mexico. His search takes him into a dark world inhabited by the very wealthy Raul Barrego and his mysterious female companion, an assassin known only by the name Pantera -the Panther.

Tom Towslee is a former newspaper and wire service reporter who also worked as communications director for a member of the United States Senate. Tom has been coming to Zihuatanejo since the late 1990s and chose it as the location for his first novel published by Day Owl Press. "Paradise Girls" is available in hard copy or as an e-book from Amazon and other booksellers. Tom can be reached at ttowslee@comcast.net. He also has a website www.tomtowslee.com. Tom and Dinah Adkins live in Portland, Oregon.