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Author's Note:
This is the one that started it all. In the shadow of 9/11, I found I had something to say about the need to challenge what you've been taught. The result is this "wild mix of genres that really works." I hope you enjoy it.
Chicken Bones
197 pages
$13.50 + shipping
ISBN 1-4184-8056-8
Suitable for adults and mature teens aged 13 +. No explicit sex or violence.
When a lost painting turns up ten years after the murder/suicide of the artist and his model, a gallery owner wants the case re-opened, to find out the truth...Brush & Bevel owner Ginny Brent has more reason than most to doubt the police. She was artist Jerry Berger's mentor and agent. When a customer walks into her shop with a previously unknown work by the artist, renewed grief impels her to seek answers. She knows that Jerry didn't kill himself or the Abby Bingham, the model pictured among the trees in Jerry's painting. Can she discover who did?Ginny's loyal staffers, Sue Bradley and Elsie Kimball, employ their own methods to help find the truth. Elsie follows her exuberant young bird-dog into the forest, through frog-infested puddles, and discovers a pile of glacial boulders that might be the actual setting for the painting. Sue cleans years of smoke and grease from the painting's canvas and puzzles over strange markings revealed under the gunk. What could they mean?As they prepare to frame and unveil The Lady in the Wood, the trio must deal with the sometimes whimsical needs of their customers, and their eccentric neighboring shopkeepers. As as they get closer to solving the mystery, they also learn that framining doesn't apply only to artwork...Author's Note:
Framed is the first in a series of mysteries set at Brush & Bevel. Watch for A Thousand Words, On the Bevel, Still Life, and more.
"I didn't want to put it down." Julie MacShane
"Couldn't help myself--stayed up till 2 a.m. to find out whodunnit." Pat Lynch
Framed
169 pages
$14.95 print
Also available as an e-book.
ISBN 978-1-60318-198-3
Mystery/Suspense
Chicken Bones
A Windswept Star
The exiled timeship Slipstream has turned renegade, refusing the call to return to Homeworld. Instead, the ship heads toward Earth and a reunion with the humans who shared its last adventure. The High Council must send three inexperienced Timers to retrieve the ship before it can alter the course of the future. Their explosive arrival precipitates unsettling changes on the volatile planet--satellites drift out of orbit and combative governments accuse each other of sabotage. A few rare time-sensitives experience disorienting episodes of alternate time.
One of these is racing driver Marti Hansen, who suffers a devatating accident--or does she? Her new husband, rock superstar Derek Hamilton, feels the urgent need to work for HansenRacing, which doesn't even exist--yet. His musical collaborator Zora Covell and her husband Harry are suddenly thrust into new roles: the reserved Zora sings onstage with Derek, and Harry finds himself competing in a Grand Prix, though he has never driven a race car!
All four humans and the three inexperienced Timers discover depths of love and courage that they never expected. Can they work together to avoid a catastrophe? And will the mysterious, starry nightgems stored in Slipstream's lockers help or hinder their quest?
Author's note:
Author's note:
I really didn't intend to write another book about Marti and her friends, but they kept knocking on my door and insisting that there were more stories for me to tell. And who knows? There may be more to come!.
A Windswept Star
260 pages
$15.00 +shipping
ISBN 1-4259-1309-1
Suitable for adults and mature teens aged 13+. No explicit sex or violence.
260 pages
$15.00 +shipping
ISBN 1-4259-1309-1
Suitable for adults and mature teens aged 13+. No explicit sex or violence.
