Court TV Crime Novel Contest: Post Synopsis Here

THE ORACLE is a thriller with a high-stakes plot touching on border security, government spying, and terrorism with an undercurrent of fear-mongering and racism. The novel opens with two preteen boys witnessing the murder of two men (one African American, one Hispanic), an act committed by members of the boys' own families. Sixteen years later, we see one of the boys as an adult, torn between family loyalty and his own sense of right and wrong, and drawn into a high-stakes conspiracy over which he has no control.

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Enrico

Seeds of Adversity is a murder-mystery entagled with inhabitants from three different counties in Virginia. Abuse, adultry, abandenment, alchoholism, gambling, kidnapping, murder, mystery and the devastation of the Ash Wednesday Storm all rolled into one novel.

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WHIP is a gritty crime tale with a large cast of characters including a Catholic junkie and her fire-obsessed roommate, a police officer and his wife who are trying to have a baby, and the wife's depressed sister. An unexpected death touches them all, linking them in ways no one ever imagined possible.

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"MINDSET" the prolog sets the time and place for the book. It also decribes a brutal murder in a St. Louis alley that actually occurs only later in the tale. You will form a relationship with the perpetrator, a psychopath and later with his brother as they rampage across the mid-west.

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Here's my plug:

Twenty-five years after being forced into witness protection, Alison Jessop is now living as Nancy Claypoole, a happily married, semi-retired private investigator whose family, is completely unaware of her past. She is content to reminisce once a week with Herman 'Casey' Case, the one person who knows the whole of who she is. But when she arrives to find Casey dead of an apparent heart attack, leaving behind a mysterious note, Nancy begins to suspect that she has been discovered.

I hope you'll take some time and comment on Identity Crisis - thanks in advance for the feedback!

Good luck to everyone!!

Thanks Enrico for hosting us. My entry is Kill Me Sweetly

In honor of the holiday season I have cooked up a-

Recipe for A Sweet Murder

Add the meat-
"If I'd known I was going to die today, I might have done things differently."

Dump on some gravy-
A gutsy heroine in an unconventional job- "After a three-year apprenticeship and five years on the job, only my mother still thought this bricklaying thing was a fad."

Stir in some drama-
"Oh, it's snowing already," she said, "How pretty, I always like a new coat of snow. Cleans away your sins."

A touch of scenery-
"I climbed the stairs and stepped through the never-locked front door of my mother's house with the usual tightening in my stomach. I waved away the stifling odor of Pinesol, greasy meat and air freshener."

Lots of ice cream-
"I licked at the spot of chocolate on my collar left from the flavor of the day (choco-banana fascination)."

One dirty little secret-
"Here," she passed me a brown paper bag. "Feed your addiction."

Sprinkle liberally with humor-
"I met Mr. Right Now a couple of times, but no one whose underwear I wanted next to mine in the spin cycle."
Top with a juicy murder-
"I stared down. Someone stared back. A lone glassy eye looked right at me."

Bake at 350° until goose bumps appear. Read in bed with a hot chocolate overflowing with marshmallows. Enjoy.


Kill Me Sweetly