Many of you know I'm a member of Sisters in Crime, a national crime and mystery author organization dedicated to supporting authors from inspiration to publication. (There are plenty of Misters in Crime, too, so don't let the name fool you.) One strong current that runs through the organization is the mutual support authors show one another.
In that tradition, I'd like to introduce you J.M. West. Joan and I "met" on one of the many platforms Sisters in Crime uses to network. I'm always happy to host a fellow sister on my blog, so I'll let Joan take it from here to tell you a little about her books.
Thanks Connie. Happy to be here!
My protagonist is Erin McCoy, a rookie detective newly promoted to the Carlisle
Homicide squad—the only female on the team. She’s partnered with her mentor,
Senior Detective Christopher Snow, whose regular partner, Reese Savage, is
deployed overseas. Their first homicide, Dying for Vengeance, pits them against
a clever foe. She may be new to CPD, but McCoy’s keen observations, her ability
to process the crime scene and arrive at salient conclusions prove her
capability. When Savage returns, however, conflict between them disrupts and
distracts both. As the Snow and McCoy follow the clues and discover more
suspects, the killer grows bolder. When Mac becomes ensnared in the killer’s
web, she must depend on her ingenuity to survive. The question is can Snow find
McCoy before the killer eliminates her?
Had a Dying Fall is the fourth in the series.A raging fire greets Detectives Snow and Savage where they discover a male body. The search for the missing wife, Kelly Sims, leads them to one of their own, Shannon Mahoney and to Sims’ extended family members, many of who have motives to kill. As the evidence mounts and suspects multiply, danger erupts, exposing damaging secrets that could destroy them all.
And what happened to Detective Erin McCoy, who was last seen at a Revolutionary War re-enactment rehearsal in Darkness at First Light?
Then another murder occurs on Jubilee Day in Mechanicsburg. The victim had ties to Dennis Sims, the Carlisle murder victim. Are the murders connected? Meanwhile, the killer stalks the streets. Where will he or she strike next?
My other books are:
In the
first Carlisle Crimes Case, Carlisle Homicide Detective Erin McCoy battles
the jitters as the first woman in Homicide partnered with Senior Detective
Christopher Snow. They’re tracking a serial killer who’s stalking family
members embroiled in an inheritance dispute. The elusive perp dispatches his
victims with toxic chemicals. As the detectives chase clues and connect the
victims, their mutual attraction blooms while she nurses him after a shooting
incident. But sparks fly when FBI Special Agent Howard offers McCoy a job if
she’ll train at Quantico. McCoy resurfaces in Carlisle when a co-worker tells
her that she has a rival for Snow’s affections.
COURTING DOUBT AND DARKNESS
In the
second CCC mystery, Homicide Detectives Snow and McCoy tail a killer who
stymies the police with multiple MO’s. While McCoy testifies at the trial of
the sisters who kidnapped her in the first novel, Snow and Savage recover a
nude body from the Letort Spring. While tracking sparse clues, another killing
surfaces that rings alarms; the victims are connected to a Marcellus Shale gas
well. As police tangle with hostile suspects, they are courting doubt and
darkness, leaving the comforts of Carlisle to the wilds of Raccoon Mountain.
When an eight-month pregnant McCoy joins the case, she discovers her Native
American relatives are involved. Then she stumbles into the killer’s path!
Carlisle Homicide Detectives Christopher Snow and Erin ‘Mac’ McCoy discover an
unidentified body, dressed like Molly Pitcher’s statue, lashed to the cannon in
front of the folk hero’s gravesite. At the macabre scene, Mac receives a call
dispatching her and K-9 Officer Shadow to a kidnapping. In the process, the CPD
discovers the girl online on a pay-for-porn site, alerting the FBI. The trail
leads to a Revolutionary War Reenactors’ encampment. As the detectives track
‘Molly Pitcher’s’ elusive killer and Emma’s obsessed kidnapper, the media
compete to scoop the sensational trial that follows.
AUTHOR BIO:
Author J M West is a Professor Emerita of English Studies at Harrisburg Area Community College, The Gettysburg Campus. She also taught at Messiah College and Shippensburg University as an adjunct and served as Assistant Director of the Leaning Center (SU). She has previously published poetry and Glory in the Flower, her debut novel, which plunges four coeds into the turbulent sixties. A member of Sisters in Crime, she and her husband live near Carlisle, Pennsylvania. They have two sons and two grandsons. In her spare time, West volunteers at The Bookery, Bosler Memorial Library’s used bookstore, participates in a book discussion group, and reads voraciously. West’s fourth Snow/McCoy adventure, Had A Dying Fall, is available on Amazon.
Learn more about Joan on Facebook. Her Books are available at Sunbury Press, Amazon, History on High and The Bookery in Carlisle
Learn more about Joan on Facebook. Her Books are available at Sunbury Press, Amazon, History on High and The Bookery in Carlisle
