I "met" Keenan because we share the pages of SNOWBOUND: Best New England Crime Stories anthology published by Level Best. Her story, the Banshee of North Adams, struck a chord in my heart. Banshee is an Irish ghost, so I knew we shared an Irish connection. (Banshee was also the name of my first pony, but that's a story for another day.)
Level Best has expanded to publishing full length mysteries and I'm so thrilled that Keenan is among their first releases. It's a sign of success for both author and publisher to have quality on both sides of the publishing equation!
I know you'll love meeting Keenan and getting to know her stories.
I know you'll love meeting Keenan and getting to know her stories.
Debut: Deadly Solution by Keenan Powell
Thanks
for inviting me to Out of the Fog,
Connie! I’m excited about the release of my debut, DEADLY SOLUTION, by Level
Best on January 23, 2018 and the warm reception it is receiving.
DEADLYSOLUTION a contemporary legal thriller set in Anchorage Alaska. The
protagonist, Maeve Malloy, has recently opened a private criminal defense
practice and is asked to take over a case of a homeless man accused of murder
when the prior attorney commits suicide.
The
book is the first in a series introducing Maeve and her investigator, Tom
Sinclair. I was moved to write it when I trip across a little-known law, to
wit: the medical examiner has the authority to declare the cause of death
without doing an autopsy and to dispose of (cremate) the remains within
seventy-two hours. So, who’s to say he’s right?
We
often hear: “Write what you know.” I, in
fact, was a young female criminal defense attorney in private practice aided by
one curmudgeon investigator who floated in and out of the office at will. I write about what it’s like to be a female trial
attorney in a man’s world, what it’s like to be in sole
practice not knowing how you’re going to make next month’s rent, and what it’s
like to believe desperately in your client’s case yet face the very strong
possibility that justice will miscarry.
About Deadly Solution
Less than a year after
drinking sidelined her career as a public defender in Anchorage, Alaska, Maeve
Malloy is asked to defend an Aleut Indian accused of beating another homeless
man to death. With no witnesses to the crime and a client who claims to have no
knowledge of the night of the murder due to a blackout, the case is stacked
against them.
As Maeve works to
maintain her sobriety, she and her investigator Tom Sinclair search for answers
in homeless camps, roadside bars, and biker gang hangouts. When they uncover
more than a few people with motives all their own for wanting the victim dead,
they are determined to prove their client's innocence before he is sentenced to
a life behind bars for a crime he swears he didn't commit.
When Maeve and Tom
discover there may be a link to an unusually high number of deaths among the
homeless community, the search is on for a killer hunting among the most
vulnerable members of society.
Find the book on Amazon
About the author
Keenan Powell was born in Roswell,
New Mexico, several years after certain out-of-towners visited. Her first
artistic endeavor was drawing, which led to illustrating the original Dungeons
and Dragons when still in high school.
A past winner of the William F.
Deeck-Malice Domestic grant, her publications include Criminal Law 101 in the June 2015 issue
of The Writer magazine and several short stories. She writes the legal column, Ipso Facto, for the Guppies’ newsletter,
First Draft, and blogs with the
Mysteristas. Several of her short stories have been published in anthologies.
She
lives, and practices law, in Anchorage, Alaska. When not writing or lawyering,
she can be found riding her bike, hanging out with her Irish Wolfhound,
studying the concert harp, or dinking around with oil paints.
Visit Keenan at: www.keenanpowellauthor.com
