Drawing Conclusions
by Deidre Verne
Paperback: 312 pages
Publisher: MIDNIGHT INK (February 8, 2015)
ISBN-13: 978-0738741314
Synopsis
Cece dumpster dives her way through this suspense-filled murder mystery...
Cece Prentice is a most unusual young woman. Heiress to a large fortune thanks to her doctor father, who is the head of a genome company on Long Island, Cece is also a freegan—ecologically-minded and socially conscious. If that happens to include dumpster diving for half an old hamburger, previously started by someone she has never met, then so be it.
Cece would still be going about her ordinary, albeit weird, life had her beloved twin brother Teddy not been murdered. Drawn into the police investigation, CeCe uses her sketching abilities and knowledge of her father's company to provide Detective DeRosa with the clues he needs to ferret out what happened to Teddy. But she soon realizes that this mystery is much more complicated than she ever imagined.
Guest Post
Write
What You Know
We’ve all heard the old adage – write what you know. This works just fine if you’ve got firsthand
exposure to a topic or theme that makes for a good story. If your life is,
well, just average, you may want to avoid what you know.
I learned this lesson the hard way. I had written an
entire mystery novel based on my experiences as a college professor. Along the
way, my unsuspecting students had been become murder suspects. Every dank
campus stairwell, the ideal spot for a murder. And my poor officemate – I had
imagined her horrific death in a dozen different scenarios.
With three hundred crisply printed pages on the
subject of a murder on a campus, I headed off to my first Sisters-in-Crime
chapter meeting at a library in Manhattan. The guest speaker, a literary agent,
had been scheduled to speak on hot trends in the market.
“If I see another manuscript from a
professor about a murder on a campus, I’m just about going to die.”
That was the agent’s opening statement. I nearly
passed out. When I came to, I realized a new strategy was in order. Apparently
what I knew, put people to sleep. Maybe this was the opportunity to live
outside my small world. A win-win for myself and my new reader.
Without this kick in the pants, I would have never
discovered my eco-friendly, Dumpster diving main character, CeCe Prentice.
After much research on topics far outside my comfort zone, I had made a new
friend and found a whole new world to discover. I’m excited that this
realization has resulted in the Sketch in Crime mystery series.
Better yet, my
officemate is no longer afraid to be in the same room as me. I think I’ll give
her a free copy of Drawing Conclusions
just to be sure.
About This Author
Deirdre Verne (Scarsdale, NY) is a college professor and an active college blogger. A writer for the millennium crowd, Deirdre’s interest in green living inspired her to create an off-the-grid character who Dumpster dives her way though a suspense-filled mystery series. A member of Sisters in Crime, Deirdre’s short stories appear in all three New York chapter anthologies – Murder New York Style, Murder New York Style: Fresh Slices and Family Matters.
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