A Dark and Cozy Night
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You need to write, I told the newbie writers at the conference. Unused gifts turn to poison.
What I didn't tell them was that I was currently drinking that poison myself.
Liz Hicks is a mystery writer. She knows poisons, sniper rifles, locked rooms, and a hundred other ways to kill someone and get away with it. It's her job to think like a murderer.
Her husband Jack died a year ago on a rainy mountain road. Motorcycle accident. Nothing suspicious.
To Liz, grief is suspicion with nowhere to go. Grief is expertise with no outlet. Grief is knowing too much about death and not enough about her own life.
Six months past her deadline, Liz can't write. Can't think. Can't stop wondering.
Then one stormy night, someone breaks into her house. They trash everything but steal only one thing: Jack's favorite possession.
Hours later, her elderly neighbor Maddy calls about a card party. Everyone on their mountain road will be there tonight. All the neighbors.
All the suspects.
Liz knows how murderers think.
Tonight, in the rain and the dark, with cribbage cards and old friends and mountain roads winding down into nothing—tonight she'll find out if she's right.
A dark and cozy mystery for stormy nights.
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About DeAnna Knippling
Every summer as kids, we would host one group of cousins or another and jump off hay bales, create mazes by crawling the patterns through the tall grass, and steal green apples out of the garden. We also branded calves, killed chickens, and stole steak knives to threaten skunks with. But that's growing up on a farm for you.
Now I write fantasy, science fiction, and horror--and most of it comes from the worlds that I created as a farm kid, one way or another.
My first novel, Choose Your Doom: Zombie Apocalypse, was published by Doom Press in 2010 and can be purchased through Meta Geek.
"This is how I like my zombies: fast and funny. Choose this book, and you won't be choosing your doom. You'll be choosing hours of gooey, gory hilarity."
- Steve Hockensmith, New York Times best-selling author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls
My short story, "The End of the World," about fairies on the Great Plains, received an honorable mention in Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 3.
I also write murder-mystery party games for Freeform Games in the UK.
See my website and blog at deannaknippling.com.
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