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Indiana's mystery writers
Our fourth annual Holiday Open House, featuring members of Indiana's mystery/suspense writing community, will be on Saturday, November 18, 2006, 2:00 - 4:00 pm. These writers will be in attendance:
Thomas D. Cochrun, news director at WISH-TV, is the author of two suspense novels in the Tim Calvin series, The Sanibel Arcanum (1994) and The Sanibel Cayman Disc (1999). In the latter, Calvin is jarred out of his mid-life pondering on Sanibel Island by a series of threatening intrigues. A retired KGB agent who is brokering bio-weapons threatens Calvin's family and his beloved Sanibel.
Marlis Day's three novels feature Margo Brown, a language arts teacher at an Indiana middle school. The third book in the series, The Curriculum Murders, was published in 2004. Margo's community is stunned when a teacher's body is found floating face down in the school pool. Margo refuses to accept the official ruling of "accidental death."
Brandt Dodson is the author of two novels featuring Indianapolis private detective Colton Parker, Original Sin and Seventy Times Seven, both published in 2006. Dodson was born and raised in Indianapolis, and comes from a long line of police officers. Author's website: brandtdodson.com
Phil Dunlap's second historical novel set in the American West, Call of the Gun, was published in paperback in 2006. It's the story of a very special, nickel-plated Colt .45 with carved ivory grips. As the revolver moves from one owner to another, it seems to affect each with a feeling of power unmatched by other weapons. Author's website: phildunlap.com
Kit Ehrman's three novels - all of which are now available in paperback - feature horse trainer Steve Cline. In Cold Burn (2005), he's managing the hunter/jumper show barns at Foxdale Farm. He investigates when a boarder asks for help when her brother has gone missing. Author's website: kitehrman.com
Terence Faherty's latest books are The Confessions of Owen Keane (2005), a collection of stories featuring the failed seminarian, and In a Teapot (2005), a short novel featuring Hollywood private eye Scott Elliott. The latter was nominee for the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award for Best Novel of 2005. Author's website: terencefaherty.com
Sara Hoskinson Frommer's Death Climbs a Tree (2005) is the sixth novel in her Indiana-based series about symphony orchestra manager Joan Spencer. In this novel, one of Joan's best violinists announces that she can't play the orchestra's children's concert because she has to sit in a tree to protest environmentally unfriendly construction. Author's website: www.sff.net/people/SaraHoskinsonFrommer
Michael Koryta’s second novel, Sorrow's Anthem, was published in 2006. It continues his series featuring Cleveland private eyes Lincoln Perry and his partner/mentor Joe Pritchard, a follow-up to Koryta's 2004 first novel, Tonight I Said Goodbye, which won the St. Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of American Best First Novel Contest. Author's website: michaelkoryta.com
Monette Michaels, aka Moni Draper, works with us here at The Mystery Company. Her latest novel is The Case of the Virtuous Vampire (2005), which she describes as Perry Mason meets woo-woo, first in a series that answers the question "Where do preternaturals go when they have a legal problem?" This book was a 2006 Eppie Award finalist. Author's website: home.att.net/~medraper/
Tony Perona's two novels feature Nick Bertetto, a former investigative reporter turned stay-at-home dad. As Angels Whisper (2005) opens, Nick is driving the kids carpool when a homeless man stumbles into his path with a clue to the disappearance of an Indiana state legislator. We review Angels Whisper on this website. Author's website: tonyperona.com
Brenda Stewart's first novel is Power in the Blood (2005), a book that draws on Brenda's own professional experiences as a forensic sculptor. When children discover a skull in a sinkhole, forensic sculptor Lettie Sue Wolfe reconstructs the face of the deceased. She is shocked to find the face of her childhood friend's sister, who disappeared thirty years earlier.
Jeff Stone’s 2006 novel, Snake, is the third in his Five Ancestors series of historical suspense novels set in 17th century China. The first and second in the series, Tiger and Monkey, were both published in paperback this year. The books are written for middle school readers, but readers of all ages are enjoying Jeff’s combination of kung fu, action and adventure. Author’s website: fiveancestors.com
Larry D. Sweazy's short story, "The Promotion," won the Spur Award, given by the Western Writers of America for best story of 2004. This story went on to be selected for the 2005 anthology The Adventure of the Missing Detective and 25 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories. Author's website: larrydsweazy.com
Ian Woollen's first novel, Stakeout on Millennium Drive (2005) takes readers into a bizarre Indianapolis world of intrigue and suspense, peopled with street-smart, on-the-edge characters. The book won the 2006 Fiction Award from the Indiana Center for the Book in the Best Books of Indiana competition.
Our previous open house guests:
Garthia Anderson, author of SPELLBOUND IN SEATTLE (Lovespell, $5.99) which was published in 2003. Moni reports that it's "an unusual mystery involving the search for the source of a magical bloodstain on Petra Field's living room rug. In order to remove the stain, Petra, the very untalented daughter of two talented wizards, is forced to deal with a wizard named Vorador. Sparks fly as their journey takes them into alternative worlds." Author's website: www.garthiaanderson.com
Dick Cady's first novel, THE EXECUTIONER'S MASK (Evans, $19.95) is our top-selling book of 2004. Sonny Ritter, a down on his luck lawyer, is asked to assist in a last-ditch effort to stop the execution of a killer. As Sonny digs up the dirt, he begins to receive threats, including false arrest and a car chase through a corn field. As Sherry noted in our newsletter, "the characters are very well drawn, the mystery believable and intricate, and the setting true Indiana."
Susan Crandall's first novel BACK ROADS (Warner, $5.99) has just won the RITA Award, given by the Romance Writers of America, for best first book of 2003. This novel of romantic suspense is set here in Indiana, where sheriff Leigh Mitchell falls for Will Scott, dangerous secrets and all. Scott reveals little about his past, even when the town suspects him of committing a terrible crime. Susan's latest is MAGNOLIA SKY (Warner, 2004). Author's website: www.susancrandall.net
Beth Crawford is the author and publisher of three novels, SILENT STORM, SILENT RAGE and SILENT SHADOWS. In SHADOWS, a Chicago homicide detective comes to Brownsburg, Indiana, where the strangled body of a woman is found in a shopping center parking lot. Beth speaks frequently about the publishing business, and especially about her own home-grown approach to publishing.
Jeanne M. Dams writes two series, one a historical series set in South Bend at the turn of the century and featuring Hilda Johansson, a young Swedish woman working in the home of the Studebaker family. Jeanne's other series is about Dorothy Martin, a retired teacher and Indiana native who's now living in England. Jeanne's 2004 novel is WINTER OF DISCONTENT (Forge, $24.95). It's the ninth in the beloved Dorothy Martin series. Author's website: www.jeannedams.com
Greg Ellis asks "what if the pathologists or detectives are the perpetrators of the homicide they are investigating? Pathology resident Dr. Madison Gray confronts this question when she rotates onto the MedExaminers Service." DEAD OF JUNE, a first novel, is published by 1st Books Library; visit www.1stbooks.com and do a search at this site for more information about Ellis and this book.
Roberta Gellis' career spans five decades and several genres -- romance, mystery, science fiction/fantasy, all of which she does well. Her 2003 mystery is LUCREZIA BORGIA AND THE MOTHER OF POISONS (Forge, $14.95), a historical novel about the notorious poisoner. She's also the author of three medieval mysteries beginning with A MORTAL BANE (Forge, $6.99). Roberta Gellis is one of Jennie's all-time favorite authors, and she recommends the books for their rich (and accurate) historical settings and the ingenuity of the quick-witted characters. Author's website: www.robertagellis.com
William J. Palmer, a professor of English at Purdue University, is the author of three novels "based on newly-discovered secret journals of Wilkie Collins," most recently THE HOYDENS AND MR. DICKENS. The reference book Detecting Men notes that the author "shares his name with England's most notorious poisoner, Dr. William Palmer, hanged for his crimes in 1856. Author's website: www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/HomePages/Palmer/palmer.html
D.R. Schanker's first novel, A CRIMINAL APPEAL, was a nominee for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel of 1998. The novel introduced Nora Lumsey, a young lawyer working as a clerk for an Indiana Court of Appeals judge. She's working on an opinion that convicts a deaf ten-year-old of killing a woman, but against her better judgement, she gets involved in the case. Schanker's second novel is NATURAL LAW, a "portrait of a community in which drugs, sex, basketball and murder accord social equality."
S.D. Tooley aka Lee Driver is the author of two series. As Tooley, she writes a series about Detective Sergeant Samantha Casey, who has "an advantage over other cops. The dead speak to her, tell her secrets about their life and death. But sometimes what she learns can get her killed." As Lee Driver, she writes series featuring private detective Chase Dagger, "who seems to inherit the most unusual cases." Author's website: www.sdtooley.com
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