Sandra de Helen is the author of
mysteries, short stories, poetry, and plays and claims to have a cat who can
type. Learn more about her and her books at her website and blog.
I'm happy
to announce the publication of The Illustrious
Client, the second book in my
Shirley Combs/Dr. Mary Watson mystery series. My protagonist and her narrator
are female versions of A. Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson.
The series is set in the current day in Portland, Oregon -- where I also live.
In fact, it was the similarity of Portland's weather to London’s that gave me
the idea for this series. I'd been daydreaming about who my detective would be
in my first mystery novel. Who but the best in the world? Only modern day and
female.
The first
book --The Hounding -- is descended
from Doyle's The Hounding of the
Baskervilles. In my book, the
victim is an actual descendant of the original Baskervilles. If you're a
Sherlock fan, you'll find some similarities to the original stories, but you
don't have to be a Sherlock fan to enjoy my books.
The Illustrious Client is a twenty-year old French pop star
smitten with an older, richer player. Her parents hire Shirley to try to pry
Oceane Charles away from Zaro Sadozai because they fear she has fallen under
Zaro's sway. They think Oceane's career, and maybe even her life, are at risk.
Shirley and Mary fly to France to meet with the parents, then almost
immediately have to fly back to Portland to meet with Oceane, who is on Zaro's
super yacht at the Portland waterfront.
The books
are populated with diverse characters, including gay, lesbian, and people of
color. In the second book, Mary discovers her latent lesbianism. Shirley
remains asexual, intellectual, and not terribly social.
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Thanks for sharing this, Sandra!
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by, Joan!
ReplyDeleteLove your writing Sandra de Helen!!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, Linda!
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