Greene County Killer (A Jesse Watson Mystery Series Book 5)

Living in the mountains. Life is refreshing here. The air smells so good when the wind blows down the mountain and stirs up all the scents around me. In the winter, all I have to do is look out my window at the snow. That always works for me. What is your favorite thing about being an author?

The satisfaction I get from knowing I can actually write something someone might want to read. So many people aspire to this, but very few ever realize their dream.

When I retired and moved to the mountains, my imagination found me. What is the toughest part of being an author? Trying to live up to the expectations of my readers. What would the story of your life be entitled? The Unplanned Benefit of Murder. What is your favorite book of all time? I was enthralled with the storyline about a young couple who went missing at the New Kent rest area on I This fiction book was based on a true story, and the area where it took place was close to my home town. Familiarity grabbed me, and curiosity held onto me. Now, I have too many favorite books to only choose one, but I will give Cornwell the credit for pulling me into the world of books.

Which character from ANY book are you most like? I think authors create characters from bits and pieces of others, and I have yet to find one who is like me.

What character from all of your book are you most like? My main character, Jesse Watson, of course. I know I did. However, Jesse does things I would never do.

What is your favorite season? I used to be a sun worshiper, but that all changed with age and hot flashes.

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What inspired your book cover s? Or what is your favorite book cover and why? He is at his least mannered in Murder Must Advertise , in which he goes undercover at an advertising agency of the sort Sayers worked at herself and which she brings to vivid, hilarious life. C hristianna Brand proudly recalled that she wrote Green for Danger at the height of the Blitz, often wearing a tin hat.

The mystery of which staff member at a military hospital was responsible for the death on the operating table of a seemingly harmless old postman is garnished with much insight into the everyday strains and stresses of life in Britain during the war.

Alastair Sim was cast to perfection as the eccentric Inspector Cockrill in the wonderful film version, which came out in , but the book is even better. O nce the war was over, there was quieter but no less compelling drama in the adjustments people made as they realised that life would not go back to the way it was pre-conflict.

B oth writers and readers were happy to relive the war, and in Death in Captivity , Michael Gilbert based a whodunnit on his own experiences in an Italian prisoner of war camp. The setting is brilliantly evoked, especially the enmities between those PoWs who want to escape and those who want to sit tight, and the puzzle of how a corpse got into the secret tunnel is cunningly crafted.

These were the basis of the television series Murder Most English and books such as Charity Ends at Home are marvellously funny on the great English traditions of hypocrisy, small-mindedness and avarice.

Editor’s Picks

B eginning with Thus Was Adonis Murdered , the Hilary Tamar series by Sarah Caudwell must be unique in never revealing the gender of its central character. T here continues to be a striking disparity between the number of black detectives in American and British crime fiction.

One of the first writers to redress the balance was Mike Phillips, who with Blood Rights inaugurated the series featuring Sam Dean — like his creator, a Guyanese-born immigrant in London who has become a successful journalist and media pundit. They decide they have been gone long enough and return to Charlottesville, Virginia. They had promised the Sheriff that they would not work at their company, Blackhawk and Blackhawk, their private investigation firm, for three months but that promise is quickly broken when Billy's mother becomes ill and Minnie's friend's husband was murdered and it all points to The Body Shop, a spa for ladies.

This book moves quickly and I could not put it down. Looking forward to more books from this author. December 30, - Published on Amazon. AM is at her best with this storyline. She has the Blackhawks evolved in murder again. The Sheriff gets mad because they constantly collect more evidence than his deputies. The sheriff breaks the law himself more than Jesse and Billy The tracking device are illegal in this instance. The sheriff does not believe in rights or warrants. This is an excellent read for the genre May 5, - Published on Amazon. Great story as are all of Ann Mullen's tales.

They grab you by the gut and pull you along not knowing what to expect most of her bad guys are insane so until you get to the end sometimes the fear is palpable. So funny when one of the bad guys got caught and Mom and Jesse lit into him. Notice that here she gave us some relief. April 25, - Published on Amazon. You can never go wrong with Ann Mullen!