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Nancy_Drew
Novel: Deadman's Switch
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
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About Nancy_Drew

Location: San Diego, California

Home Region:
USA :: California :: San Diego

Age:40

Website: http://blogging-bard.blogspot.com

Favorite novels: Inkspell and Eyre Affair

Non-noveling interests: Nancy Drew Mysteries, Steam Locomotives, Reading, Web Design, Mosaic Tile, Book Collecting,

Joined: November 2, 2005

This Year: Official Participant

NaNoWriMo History:
'05 '07 '08

NaNoWriMo posts: 8

NaNoWriMo buddies: 1

 

Brief Author Bio:

I got my Ph.D. in English (in Aug 2008) and am looking for employment in education. I have about 8 novels and a short story collection partially planned in my head. Now I just need to finish my first novel!

Synopsis: Deadman's Switch

First book in a planned series of mysteries set in Riverside, CA. The first book involves a train museum group where a volunteer is found murdered.

Just because a loved one has died, doesn't mean your life comes to an end. The story deals with how people cope with the loss of a loved one. Some despair, some continue their lives, and some turn to grief, rage, and murder.....

Excerpt: Deadman's Switch

Deadman's Switch by Kim Keeline

Jacket Blurb:
Just because a loved one dies, doesn’t mean your life ends. People tell this to Liz McKenzie all the time, but she isn’t sure she believes it. Liz’s life feels like it is at an end since the death of her husband. Helen and Ron have been patient with her but now they feel it is time for her to get out into the world and get involved once again. She doesn’t want to do it–it’s too soon, she isn’t interested, it can wait a little longer–but they refuse to listen to her excuses.

So without really wanting to, Liz finds herself volunteering at a local train museum where her uncle used to volunteer when she was a child. She has fond memories of the place but isn’t enthused to be there now.

Her enthusiasm is chilled even further when she finds the body of a volunteer dead on the floor of the group’s new building, a railroad spike through his back. Now Liz is in a deadly dance with a killer and she will rediscover just what grief and rage can drive a person to do.

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