ATTENTION: Lovers of ‘mystery fiction’ novels with an endearing central character!

Scheduled for release in mid-August, 2011, AN ARIZONA TRAGEDY – A Bailey Crane Mystery (1), by Billy Ray Chitwood, is the first book in a five-book ‘Bailey Crane Mystery Series.’ The remaining four books are written, being tweaked, and all will be out in 2011 or early 2012. Each book in the ‘Bailey Crane Series’ stands alone but will show a natural life progression of the central character.

Meet Bailey Crane, a son of the south, living in Phoenix, Arizona. Bailey is six feet tall, one hundred eighty-five pounds, a ruggedly good looking guy in the mold of a young Christopher Plummer. He has just enough nuance in his charming southern manners and speech to make him appealing to most, perhaps a bit too flamboyant for some. He’s got a soft manufacturing rep business that brings in easy money. He’s an actor on the local and regional scene, doing television commercials, print modeling, and some theater. He’s a private investigator for a few attorney friends in town, and, a former cop, he is an auxiliary detective for the Phoenix PD. Bailey has love, friends, golf, and a bon vivant life style. For the most part the man is a crusader without a cape and has life just about where he wants it.

In An Arizona Tragedy - A Bailey Crane Mystery (1),  Bailey’s life takes a perilous and tumultuous twist when a young friend is brutally murdered in the Arizona desert. The friend, a twenty-six year old single mother and model, goes missing for weeks, is then found in a desert arroyo just northeast of Scottsdale, her skull crushed, her body unrecognizable.

Working privately on an estate matter for one of his attorney friends, Bailey finds the name of the woman’s boyfriend. The discovery does not necessarily have great significance but it does start the wheels turning in the mind of our southern sleuth.

Bailey becomes a target for an unknown assassin and ends up battered, bruised, and angry. His anger pushes him deeper into his friend’s homicide, and, finding a possible homicide connection, he travels to Washington, D. C., to the hallowed halls and offices of the nation’s lawmakers. At his hotel across the Potomac, the unknown assassin strikes again, this time wounding our protagonist. The bad guy gets away, and Bailey has a temporary stay in a Reston, Virginia hospital.

Through more ironic turns and twists, Bailey goes on to solve not only his friend’s homicide but another in the nation’s capital. With the help of his Phoenix PD buddies, and, one very special female cop, the bad guy behind the homicides is caught. The climatic ending scene in this Bailey Crane caper is nail biting tense and will keep the readers riveted to their seats of choice.

 An Arizona Tragedy was inspired by two actual homicides. The Phoenix homicide of the young mother and model has never been solved. With the ravages on the body by the monster who did this deed, by the desert heat, and by denizens of the habitat, evidence was scarce. This Phoenix murder was also very personal for the author … he was a friend of the real murder victim. While An Arizona Tragedy was written to be commercially acceptable and successful, the author also wanted it to be a token of remembrance.

For more information and brief synopses on other books by the author, vitae on the author, please visit: http://www.wix.com/brchitwood/thecrackedmirror Please note: one in the ‘Bailey Crane Series’ was inadvertently not included on the website. That title, THE BRUTUS GATE – A Bailey Crance Mystery, will be on the website soon.

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Romance for a married woman with children?  by accidental author Meredith Cagen

Comedic Biting NYC Social Commentary Novel:  Size Eight in a Size Zero World

Love or Loyalty?  Lust or Loneliness?

Life seemed perfect until she met him in the elevator of her Upper East Side luxury high rise building.  She affectionately refers to him as “The Man Upstairs.” Like many females, Lindsay Chandler has everything she thought she ever wanted:  Handsome attorney husband, two healthy children, job with flexibility, beautiful New York City home, and friends.

Imagine after 10 years of marriage, this multi-tasking phenom starts to revolt against her status quo.  Fed up being surrounded by double processed pampered size zero Manhattan socialites at her children’s schools and ignored by her husband. This disgruntled working wife and mother develops s romantic crush on The Man Upstairs.  He is the perfect man.  Ah, if only that was true.

Can a girl who enjoy cheeseburgers with fries find happiness in a fulfilling relationship?

In the tradition of Sex and the City, Bridget Jones’s Diary, The Ivy Chronicles, and The Devil Wears Prada, Size Eight in a Size Zero World, is a modern-day story of a good girl who is trying to do the right thing while remaining true to herself.

About The Author

“This is a fictional story but based in my reality as an Upper East Side working wife and mother. Living in Manhattan I am surrounded by seemingly picture perfect double-processed blonde women in designer clothes with honor roll children, indulgent husbands leading extraordinary lives. These days the pressure on women to be perfect, comes from all directions.  No one fat is ever photographed seriously for Page Six. Does having it all mean you give up your uniqueness?”

www.sizezeroworld.com

Media Contact

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Meredith Cagen 212 289-2880

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March 15, 2009 – Fort Worth, Texas – With the controversy surrounding American immigration policy and the continuing violence and chaos brought on by the Mexican drug trade, Jeffrey Osburn has written a novel that could very well have been written in today’s headlines.

Under the Fifth Sun (StoneGarden Publishing, 1-60076-128-3) began years ago, with Osburn’s interest in Mexican history and contemporary culture. Having studied both pre- and post-Colombian history and the cultural anthropology of Latin America, he searched for a way to dramatize the historical and current issues that make Mexico the source of fascination it has always been for Osburn.

The book is populated by a Customs and Border Protection agent caught up in international intrigue, the colorful directors of an up-and-coming defense contractor, two cousins who illegally enter the U.S. seeking jobs, the ambitious and nefarious leader of the Sonora Drug Cartel, and a newly elected Mexican president embroiled in a bitter political rivalry, all intersecting in a fast-paced plot feeding off today’s issues.

The author and business executive leverages his personal and professional experience to create realistic fiction that is both engaging and enlightening. His novels use contemporary hot-button topics to challenge and inform readers about the mutual interests at stake in the Americas including border security, immigration reform, drug and human trafficking and the emergence of popular socialism. Osburn wrote most of Under the Fifth Sun in two to three hour blocks each night over the course of a year. Fortunately, he was able to coax out of retirement an experienced copy editor—his mother—for a few days to put the final touches on the galleys before printing.

Jeffrey Osburn is a member of the Writers League of Texas and lives in Fort Worth, Texas, with his wife Rosalinda, their daughter Ashley and son Travis. Under the Fifth Sun can be ordered online at Amazon.com and Stonegarden.net.

Review copies and interviews upon request.

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