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If you want to know why I chose to publish Winslow's Wife myself, read vanity
publishing.
iUniverse Writer's Showcase, July 2002
ISBN 0-595-22633-7
Trade paper, $14.95
A missing husband … a mysterious
portrait … a twenty-year-old crime … .
The Denver Police think that John
Hewitt has simply taken off, probably with another woman, but Caroline Hewitt
doesn’t believe it. In frustration, she turns for help to her old friend,
middle-aged software consultant Lexy Connor.
Lexy thinks that 35 years without
so much as a Christmas card strains the definition of friendship, but she finds
it hard to refuse to help. As Lexy explores the world of John Hewitt, she comes
to agree that his disappearance is not simply a manifestation of an overdue
mid-life crisis; something vastly more sinister has happened.
The only clue is a portrait of an
unknown woman, painted by an equally mysterious artist, but it proves to be
enough as Lexy discovers once again that there is no limit to the evil people
are capable of inflicting on others in the name of love.
Lexy’s search takes her from the lush landscapes of the Mid-Hudson Valley of
New York to the stark mountain ridges of Nevada before it ends in a
confrontation with a killer in the Rocky Mountains of her own backyard.
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Winslow's Wife is produced using print-on-demand
technology, which
means very simply that they don't print one until someone demands it. That means
that it is unlikely that you will find it on the shelf in your favorite
bookstore or library. However, all you have to do to get it is demand it. It's
that simple. All of the normal book sources, click-and-buy or brick-and-mortar,
will be able to order it.
Write Way Publishing, January, 2000
ISBN 1-885173-62-8
$23.95; cloth; 230 pages
Worldwide Library, September, 2000
ISBN 0-373263-60-0
$5.99; paper
Lexy Connor is perfectly content with her uneventful life: her Boulder,
Colorado suburban home; her bookcases full of mystery novels; her love of good
food (the source of her magnificent girth); and her faithful Westie companion,
Molly. But then a phone call in the middle of the night sends her peaceful world
into turmoil.
Tally Richard, a long-time family
friend, is looking for a place to hide out. Having received a cryptic message
warning that she's in terrible danger, she seeks refuge with Lexy, and pleads
for help to decipher the mystery of her true parentage, which appears to be the
root of the danger she's in.
Lexy is reluctantly drawn into the
middle of a mystery straight out of one of those novels she loves so much. Only
now she finds herself playing the unlikely role of amateur sleuth. From
California and the untimely death of their only solid lead to Tally's parents
all the way across the country to Westchester County, New York, Lexy tracks down
clues to the identities of Tally's birth parents, and of the determined
strangers trying to get to Tally first. Are they one and the same?
With the help of a friendship ring,
old yearbooks, newspaper articles involving a thirty-year-old car accident that
occurred under suspicious circumstances, and a bevy of canines from dachshunds
to rottweilers and their owners, Lexy puts her own life, and the lives of those
closest to her, on the line to uncover the truth about Tally's past.
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