Book Signing Santa Ynez Author Teri Harmon

Local author Lida Sideris joins Nancy Cole Silverman, James L’ Etoile and Heather Weidner for a behind the scenes look at mystery writing on Thursday March 31 at 6 p.m.

Lida Sideris–

GAMBLING WITH MURDER, #5 In A SOUTHERN CA MYSTERY Series

Rookie lawyer Corrie Locke’s day job at a film studio takes a backseat to her investigating homicides and missing persons. The daughter of a well-known Private Investigator, Corrie’s flexing P.I. skills on her own…and without supervision.

Corrie goes undercover to find a senior missing from a posh retirement community. With a little help from a secret weapon named Mom, Corrie is armed and ready. Turns out the job’s not as easy as she’d thought. Seniors have tricks up their sleeves and aren’t afraid of using them. The action gets dicey as the missing person case turns into attempted murder by a criminal mind who’s always one step ahead. Corrie’s hot on the trail, but finds more than she bargained for when Mom becomes a target.

James L’Etoile –

BLACK LABEL

A pharmaceutical executive wakes up in a strange apartment and finds herself suspected of the murder of her company’s CEO. Believing she’s insane, or a murderer, Jillian Cooper finds herself on the run from not only the police but also gang enforcers.

Life-sustaining prescription drugs are a trillion-dollar industry, but who really knows what’s hidden inside those pills and capsules? Big Pharma has a secret and it’s costing thousands of lives. Prison gangs and corporate board members make strange bedfellows, but where there’s money to be had, peace exists through an off-the-books Black Label drug lab. Jillian is left to unravel the company’s secrets before she lands in jail or becomes another victim.

Nancy Cole Silverman –

The MISTY DAWN series

Misty Dawn is an aging Hollywood psychic to the stars, who arrived in California back in the sixties selling love potions from the back of her flowered VW van. Her previous clientele included greats like Liz Taylor, ZsaZsa Gabor and a former president’s wife who kept Misty’s number on speed dial. Due to financial hardship, after years of not setting aside money for her retirement, Misty has been living out of her van, while trying to rebuild her clientele. When a client suggests Misty move into an old craftsman’s cottage, that had belonged to Wilson, the client’s recently deceased brother, things start to get dicey. The brother’s not dead…but stuck between the worlds, and demanding Misty move out. It’s a modern-day Ghost and Mrs. Muir with clients coming to Misty door for readings that ultimately lead to murder and Wilson and Misty learning that to survive they must work together.

Heather Weidner –

VINTAGE TRAILERS AND BLACKMAILERS

There is nothing like finding a dead body, clad only in a red satin thong, on your property to jolt you from a quiet routine. Jules Keene, owner of the posh Fern Valley Camping Resort in the Blue Ridge Mountains, is thrust into the world of the Dark Web when one of her guests, Ira Perkins, is found murdered in the woods near her vintage trailers. Jules quickly discovers that the man who claimed to be on a writing retreat was not what he seemed, and someone will go to any length to find what he left at her resort. Jules, along with her Jack Russell Terrier sidekick Bijou, has to put the rest of the missing pieces of a blackmailing scheme together before her business is ruined.

Jules’s resort, set in the heart of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains near Charlottesville in the quaint town of Fern Valley, offers guests a unique vacation in refurbished and upcycled vintage trailers. Hoping to expand her offerings, she partners with her maintenance/security guy to create a village of tiny houses, the latest home DIY craze, but a second murder of a reporter interrupts Jules’s expansion plans. Curiosity gets the best of her, and she steps up her sleuthing to find out what Ira Perkins was really up to and what he was really hiding at her resort.

Event date:
Thursday, March 31, 2022 – 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Event address:
Virtual Event
Santa Barbara, CA 93105