My newest publication, Coin: A Donna Howard Mystery is now available on Kindle and in paperback!This is my first murder mystery. Writing Coin was a fun exploration of red herrings and of life in the 1990s. Remember the 1990s? Using a 1995 setting took me back before DVD and even gmail!
The paranormal gifts of my main character meant I also ended up exploring decades of Portland, Maine history. I've lived here twenty years and never knew how much I didn't know.
The official blurb:
It's 1995 and Donna Howard is living an ordinary life in Portland, Maine. She works as a hairdresser, has a boring boyfriend plus two opinionated brothers and two exhaustively energetic parents. As far as she's concerned, she's an ordinary person and is proud of it.Thanks to Eugene, my editor, who is also responsible for the Art Deco cover!
Except she can see the past. Walk down any street in the old part of the city and four centuries of its inhabitants walk right along with her. She can observe them, hear them, smell them. And she'd rather not. She'd prefer to leave the past in the past.
Until a customer "accidentally" leaves an ancient Roman coin at the hair salon. A coin worth an awful lot of money. Then the woman appraising the coin for the Portland Museum of Art "accidentally" ends up dead. And now the past won't leave Donna alone.
Not even the man whose visage was molded into the metal 2000 years ago, a man who wreaked mayhem then and may have witnessed murder now. Quite unwittingly, Donna uncovers family secrets, confronts historical controversies, and closes in on a very contemporary crime.
