The Eddie Shoes mysteries return. My fun and quirky private eye series will soon be returning to bookstores and online outlets near you.
Relaunch!
The Eddie Shoes series originally launched in 2016. Since that time, the rights came back to me, and I am thrilled to announce that I have signed a contract with Open Road Media to re-release all three books.
Revisiting my first novels has been a blast. I love my characters, and I do believe that I continue to have the only mother/daughter crime fighting duo in the mystery genre.
Eddie Shoes and Chava Schultz
Eddie Shoes is six feet tall, half Jewish, half Latina. She’s smart and capable, and isn’t afraid to take a few chances, but she tends to stay within the law. In the first book, One Dead, Two to Go, she’s joined on her first homicide investigation by her mother, Chava.
Chava Schultz is a card-counting poker player recently kicked out of Vegas who never met a line she didn’t want to cross. This is not a match made in heaven.
But it is a funny combination, with Chava as the wild card and Eddie playing the straight (wo)man.
Eddie Shoes — Private Eye
I have always been a fan of private eyes, especially female sleuths. I started reading Nancy Drew as a kid before graduating to Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone, who skyrocketed the female private eye into the mainstream.
One of my favorite author memories was just before my first book came out. I got the chance to meet Sue Grafton and tell her how much her work meant to me.
She was gracious and lovely and I’m so glad I had the opportunity to tell her that I had my very own private eye series coming out soon, and I owed much of that success to her.
From Kellye Garrett to Janet Evanovich, authors of female private eyes combine the puzzle of a good mystery with the dynamics of an empathetic character and their complicated lives and relationships.
I can’t wait to introduce readers old and new to the updated Eddie Shoes mysteries.
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Elena Taylor/Elena Hartwell
All We Buried, available now in print, e-book, and audio.
Silver Falchion Award Finalist, Best Investigator
Foreword INDIE Award Finalist, Best Mystery
The Foundation of Plot, a Wait, Wait, Don’t Query (Yet!) guidebook.
Detective graphic by Nubrix on Pixabay
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