MYSTERY SHE WROTE...
WOODROW & WREN...THE RULE OF THREE
Marketing Site, Shout My Book was too generous with the promotion of my mystery number 10. It's anything but cozy. It is closer to disturbing...
And disturbing is what I intended - softened up however, by the two main 70-year-old characters, friends since childhood.
Once again, I had followed several news events over the course of about six years. [Including PBS Frontline's "Pandora Papers".] And once again I wondered what those writing or reporting the news features were not telling us. Or even if they knew.
Following public information sources to a logical conclusion, along with a fiction author's imagination - offered me a plot that I just couldn't 'not' write.
Even though I wrote the two main characters doing much of the sleuthing as somewhat elderly like Agatha Christies', Miss Marple - the discoveries Lois and Ivy make are grim with antagonists' motivations pure treachery.
My plan [still] is a sequel that returns Lois Woodrow and Ivy Wren to solve another murder that's less foreboding... But - who knows, a lot can change between my original plan and the final narrative. It's happened with me before.
I don't worry about that at all, after decades and decades of journalism and fiction. Like most novelists, I go with what comes to me and trust the process. Truly, though no one understands the arrival [or not] of inspiration - regardless - if you're an engineer or sculptor, nurse or a poet, mechanic or playwright, plumber or artist or a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g really...
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Who is that third person, largely unseen, who influences the people who make public policy?
*A body is found below the layers of an early fall snow in the west garden of historic Canyon House in Flagstaff, Arizona. Motive for this murder is as layered as the snow.
Lois Woodrow and Ivy Wren have been best friends since public school and a simple visit by Lois to Ivy's - Bed & Breakfast is abruptly complicated by the traumatizing discovery only - feet from the dining room French doors.
Though by their own admission, the gals are not quite as smooth as Agatha Christie's, Miss Marple - their clumsy sleuthing becomes a valuable catalyst for investigators...
Author website: Patchwork Publishing, LLC
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**Every writer's journey is the same, but different...In "FROM THERE TO HERE" a memoir, [of sorts] I share more detail of 'my' unique journey that may be of some help to others who find themselves compelled to write too...