Valerie Stocking

A Touch of Murder Valerie Stocking

Publisher Marketing: Fledgling private eye Samantha Kern's life changes forever when she visits a spa for rest and recuperation following the death of her father. The peace of the idyllic surroundings is shattered when a special education teacher from New York is found dying from a dose of cyanide. Samantha must sift through the clues, the lies, and the omissions of eight different women as she solves her first murder case. Review Citations: Foreword 06/23/2011 (EAN 9781935636007, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Stocking, Valerie Valerie Stocking began writing when she was five years old. In 1966, she and her mother moved from Connecticut to a small town in Florida, where Valerie encountered difficulties with the public school system and racial bigotry. She left a year later. She has written consistently throughout her life, everything from newspaper articles to advertising copy. She worked for six years as an editor for audio books, doing abridgements of over 100 novels. For ten years she wrote plays, which had readings and productions throughout the U. S. and Canada. Her first novel, A Touch of Murder, was published in 2010. It was nominated for a Global Ebook Award for Best Mystery in 2011. Her second novel, Southern Strife: A Novel of Racial Tension in the 1960's, was a semi-finalist in the Best Indie Book of 2012 competition, sponsored by Kindle Book Review. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and is working on her next novel.