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2008 Holiday Party features Indiana writers
and benefits Toys for Tots!
Saturday, November 22, 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Sixteen Hoosier authors will attend The Mystery Company's fifth annual Holiday Party, Saturday, November 22, 3:00 - 5:00 pm. This distinguished group includes the 2006 and 2007 winners of the Indiana Center for the Book's "Best Books of Indiana" awards, plus two Indiana writers who are part of a new anthology of mystery stories that benefits the Marines' Toys for Tots program. The Mystery Company is serving as a Toys for Tots drop-off location, and Marines will arrive during our holiday party to pick up donated toys.
Writers attending the holiday party include:
Dick Cady's first novel, The Executioner's Mask, was 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." Dick's new novel is Champions (2008), set in the world of heavyweight boxing.
Susan Crandall's first novel Back Roads 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. Susan's latest is Pitch Black (2008), in which Philadelphia journalist Madison Wade relocates to a small Tennessee town in an effort to give her newly adopted teenage son, Ethan, a fresh start. When he goes on a camping trip with three other teens and returns without their chaperone, Ethan's past casts him as suspect in a crime. Author's website: www.susancrandall.net
Marlis Day's first three novels feature Margo Brown, a language arts teacher at an Indiana middle school. Her latest book is The Secret of Bailey's Chase, her first novel for younger readers. A ten-year-old orphan is sent halfway across the country to live with relatives in a small midwestern town. She finds a girl just her age. Strange doesn't begin to explain the magical and mysterious events that happen from the moment the girls meet, nothing making sense until they meet a Gypsy woman. She warns them to only use their power for good, swears them to secrecy, and warns them of evil forces that will be their enemies.
Brandt Dodson is the author of four novels featuring Indianapolis private detective Colton Parker, beginning with Original Sin (2006). Dodson was born and raised in Indianapolis, and comes from a long line of police officers. His latest novel is White Soul (2008), a standaone novel about a police officer who infiltrates a gang in Miami. Author's website: brandtdodson.com
Phil Dunlap is the author of five historical novels set in the American West. Three of his books are part of a series that can be described as historical police procedural about Deputy U.S. Marshal Piedmont Kelly; the latest novel in this series of Blood on the Rimrock (2008). Also this year, Phil published Saving Mattie, his first Christan Western, about a cowboy who ends up caring for a 12-year-old girl. Author's website: phildunlap.com
Kit Ehrman's four novels - all of which are now available in paperback - feature horse trainer Steve Cline. In Triple Cross (2006), Steve is working at Churchill Downs when a chance encounter triggers a series of events that spiral out of control and plunge Steve into the world of the ultra rich, where greed and revenge and ambition lead to a power play that culminates in a bloody triple cross. Triple Cross is the winner of the 2007 "Best Book of Indiana" Award in the fiction category, and was also an IPPY and Foreward Magazine Book of the Year medalist. Author's website: kitehrman.com
Wes D. Gehring is a professor of telecommunications at Ball State University and the author of numerous books on the movies. His biographies of Hoosiers in Hollywood include volumes on James Dean and Carole Lombard. He's the author of two mysteries involving the movies: The Charlie Chaplin Murder Mystery (2006) and The James Dean Murder Mystery (2008).
Lou Harry is the arts and entertainment editor at Indianapolis Business Journal. He's the co-author of Kid Culture: The Hip Parent's Handbook to Navigating Books, Music, T.V., and Movies in the Digital Age -- not just a great resource for parents, but an entertaining read and a nostalic experience itself in and of itself. I especially enjoyed the appreciations of Where the Wild Things Are and Schoolhouse Rock. Lou's IBJ blog: ae.ibj.com
Monette Michaels' 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
Lorri Sankowsky is the co-author of Ghost Hunter's Guide to Indianapolis (2008). She is a former co-director of the Indianapolis chapter of Indiana Ghost Trackers, a local paranormal investigation group. In addition to details on many sites, the book includes several useful appendicies that provide information on organizations, events, internet resources, etc. of interest to ghost hunters. Author's website: indianapolisghosts.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. Author's website: www.brendarobertsonstewart.com/mystery.html
Wanda Lou Willis is a local folklore historian who's written two books about haunted Indiana: Haunted Hoosier Trails (2002) and More Haunted Hoosier Trails (2004). Both books are organized geographically so that you can find haunted sites in your county, and both books are illustrated. She also appeared in the recent film Central State: Asylum for the Insane. Author's website: www.wandalouwillis.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.
Marian Allen and S.M. Harding have published short fiction in a variety of anthologies and periodicals. The two are among the 13 contributors to a new anthology of winter holiday crime stories that's published as a benefit for Toys for Tots. Profits from the sale of copies of Dying in a Winter Wonderland ($11.95 - click here to order this book online) go to Toys for Tots, and we're also serving as a Toys for Tots collection site. Marines will arrive during our Open House to pick up donations of new and unwrapped toys.
Copies of all these writers' work will be available for purchase, and the writers will be available to sign books.
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