Celebration!
I have only 4 more days of October to celebrate the 8th
anniversary of my writing journey. I published my first three novels in October
of 2015.
Today, the continued collaboration with 5 recent short stories, all featuring Isabella Newcombe Tarrant, collected into Sailing with Mystery:
Mystery and peril are dangerous shipmates for an ocean voyage.
While travel presents opportunities to meet new friends and see new places. Isabella also encounters puzzling crimes and dangerous intrigue as she sails from England to India.
"Amber Dreams"
Blackmail
threatens a young bride when her secret diary is stolen. Her marriage of
convenience is threatened if the contents are revealed to her new husband and
his autocratic mother.
Can
Isabella recover the diary before the bride loses all hope?
"Purple Poison"
A
flurry of poison pen letters unsettle the passengers on the ship Nomadic.
Even Isabella is not immune from the vicious invective.
Will
the culprit be discovered before tragedy occurs?
"Black Heart"
Pranks
and tricks cause inconvenience, misery, and embarrassment.
After
one prank goes too far and injury occurs, will Isabella locate the trickster
before the next mishap turns deadly?
"Silver Web"
Lady
Bernhardt’s diamond necklace is stolen. Other jewelry is missing. Suspicions
and accusations fly among the passengers of the ship Garipoola.
Then
the thief dies in the freak accident, proof of his theft in hand. Will Isabella
locate his accomplice and the missing jewelry before they reach the next port?
"Red Mask"
A disturbing
letter falls into Isabella’s hands—only to be stolen again before she deciphers
it.
The
letter claimed that a spy is aboard the Garipoola, but is that the only
person hiding their true identity and purpose on the passenger ship?
These mystery short stories were an odd challenge. Because they're short stories, I wanted to avoid murder mysteries. I managed that, but I did have one death.
Research took more time than I anticipated. Learning about passenger ships in 1920 required delving almost constantly into my sources. One internet site saw my visits every time I worked on a story.
The itinerary should have been simple--and wasn't.
Yet I enjoyed writing these stories and even had one character demand a series of short stories in a later decade. I'll leave you to guess who that character is.
The best part was selecting the watercolor images for the covers of the short stories to represent what Isabella paints throughout the ocean voyage.
View the trailer here: https://youtu.be/csAe72b5X2I
Links to buy are here:
The Zon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CCK9N1R9
worldwide https://books2read.com/u/3R5QJR
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