When I read my advance copy of Janie's Got a Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Aerosmith, edited by Michael Bracken, and published through White City Press, it dawned on me that we may be living in the golden age of music-inspired mystery short stories.
I’ve been writing lately about the reissuing of my 2nd Sydney Lockhart mystery, Murder at the Luther, set in the small Texas coastal town of Palacios. All my Sydney books are set in historic hotels. Some are exquisite, some glamorous, and some are reported to be haunted. The Luther Hotel in Palacios is best described as unpretentious and comfortably quaint.
Carissa Carmichael is not a stranger to the misfortunes of youth, however her response was to escape from her small hometown of Oak Creek Valley and head to the big city of San Francisco. For ten years, she honed her skills, knowledge, and expertise with aromatherapy and reflexology mentored by friend Mari Kemp.
After getting called to an arson scene that will be a jurisdictional nightmare, Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department arson detectives Andrew Walker and Walter Sharpe are more than happy to leave and instead investigate an ongoing fire in a new housing development. It’s but one of a series of arsons set in the million-dollar new homes, with one eventually revealing the body of a crispy corpse.
Phyllida Bright takes the 1930s London Theater District by storm as our intrepid amateur detective returns for a thrilling encore performance. Colleen Cambridge’s Murder Takes the Stage is an atmospheric delight that pulls the curtain back on the historic West End.
In this book you travel with Julia Child (nee McWilliams) back in time and across the South-East Asian theatre of World War II. The story begins in December 1943, in Washington, D.C. and ends in August 1945 at the conclusion of World War II.
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Frieda McFadden, now a part-time physician specializing in brain injury, is a multiple award-winning author of psychological thrillers. She considers her training gives her an advantage in writing such works. Most, like The Boyfriend, are standalones, so no worries about coming into the middle of a series.
I’ve been a writer ever since I made them teach me the alphabet when I was four years old. I’ve been told all my life to “write what you know” by schoolteachers, writing instructors, editors, agents, and college professors. I also trained to be a journalist and report “just the facts, ma’am.” I know how this all works. So, yikes! After reading these stories, I’m kind of afraid to meet some of the authors I share space with in Sex & Violins: An Erotic Crime Anthology edited by Sandra Murphy.
After a tragedy disrupted her plans to become a criminologist, Annie Murray found happiness starting her life over as a bookseller and promoter for the Secret Bookcase bookstore in the Northern California town of Redwood Grove.
