Join me for some bookish events!
October 3, from 11 – 3: Medina Library Book Fest
October 11: Grand Rapids Apple Butter Festival
October 21 – 24: Bouchercon in Calgary, Canada
November 22, from noon – 4: St. John Jesuit Trunk Show, St. John’s, Toledo
December 3, 5:30 – 8:00: St. Francis “Shopping Knight” at St. Francis High, Toledo
Stay tuned for more upcoming events to be announced soon!
My debut mystery, HIDDEN ROOMS, was released in April 2024 from CamCat Books. Here’s a short synopsis.
Hidden Rooms follows Riley Svenson, a young woman who returns to her remote Ohio hometown and begins experiencing a bewildering array of health issues. When her brother’s fianceé, Beth, is killed and her brother becomes the prime suspect, Riley must unravel the secrets behind what happened to Beth and solve her own medical mystery.
Searching for explanations, Riley reacquaints herself with a town full of historic houses, wild woods, and old acquaintances who are not what they seem. As the danger builds, she must learn to trust the instincts she has begun to doubt over the course of her long, undiagnosed illness.
Many of my own experiences inspired this book. After years of working to find a diagnosis and treatment for my own chronic illness, it occurred to me that, in the current healthcare system, the onus fell to me to solve my own medical mystery. This struggle (and my love of writing) inspired me to write a mystery in which the protagonist investigates a murder while looking for answers to her own bewildering symptoms. My hope was to write a page-turner that also validates the real-life experiences of people struggling with undiagnosed chronic conditions.
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