Her Ex-GI P.I.-Standalone '60s Mystery

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Once upon a time, I wrote a book set in the 1960s. It was published as an e-book, but I never liked the cover (or the publisher, who seemed to want to make a simple mystery into something it wasn't). The story of a '60s girl who decides to quit her "safe" job to work for a handsome, wounded Vietnam vet at his detective agency didn't translate into what they did with the cover:

Eventually I got the rights back to the book and asked my cover artist to make a new cover. This is what we got:
I was okay with that for a while, but what I heard from readers was that the book looked "scary" and "hardcore". When I asked why, they mentioned both the cover and the title.

Hmmm.

I thought long and hard about the book. It's really a combination of P.I. novel and cozy mystery, since the main character is an amateur who is a little naive about the world. I worked with yet another cover artist, who thought I'd been trying to do too much with the earlier ones. Though the book is a murder mystery and there's danger involved, he advised a whole new direction.

Here it is: New title, new cover, same story. The mood is lighter, the title less ominous.
If you bought/read Go Home and Die, DON'T buy it again as Her Ex-GI P.I. and then get mad at me. Wisdom in the publishing industry tells us to do exactly what I've done to attract new readers, but I don't want to disappoint my loyal fans!

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