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Murder by Mishap
(Sybown Press 2012,
ISBN 978-0615622866)
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Edna Davies is heading for the Providence Art club when she spots a brooch in the newly-tilled soil of a friend's yard.  Her discovery solves a 50-year-old mystery but precipitates a murder.  As she tries to make sense of the killing, Edna matches wits with someone who may be hiding behind a false identity.  She must determine who is friend and who is foe before another person dies.


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Murder by Proxy

(Mainly Murder Press, 2011,
ISBN 978-0-9827952-3-1)
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Protagonist Edna Davies discovers that automation can be convenient, but it can also be deadly. In the Colorado Rockies on an errand of mercy, Edna is confronted by a private detective and challenged to find a missing woman. Anita Collier appears to be alive. Her paycheck is deposited, her bills are paid, her phone is answered; but closer inspection reveals everything is automated. Nobody has actually seen her for several weeks, except perhaps Edna's son, but he isn't talking. In her search for the truth, Edna plunges deep into danger when she uncovers more than one murder and struggles to prevent another .

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Murder by Yew
(Mainly Murder Press, 2009,
ISBN 978-0-615-29010-2)
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Murder by Yew is my first published full-length novel and is situated in Rhode Island because that’s where it needed to take place.  When I began to research natural poisons, I started to realize how many highly toxic plants and bushes surrounded the homes where I grew up.  Couple my new-found knowledge with a mother who loves concocting herb spreads to serve to friends and relatives and I just couldn’t resist.

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"Mistwillow Crime Wave"
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Tales from Mistwillow
(RMFW Press, 2007, ISBN 0-9760225-1-6)
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My short story “Mistwillow Crime Wave” was a winner in the 2007 Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers contest for the anthology Tales from Mistwillow.  The story is based on a phenomenon that plagues police departments everywhere, large or small—that of people confessing to crimes they didn’t commit.  One of the more astounding examples of this is the man who confessed to being Jack the Ripper.  The police wasted no time in finding the man was only two years old at the time of those infamous deeds.  Less fortunate was the sailor who was hanged for starting a disastrous fire in Chicago, although it was determined that he had been at sea during the time in question.

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