KILLING IN C SHARP
A Gethsemane Brown Mystery, Volume 3
by
Alexia Gordon
Genre: Paranormal Mystery
Publisher: Henery Press
Date of Publication: March 6, 2018
Number of Pages: 288
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She saved Carraigfaire—but can she save her friends? Gethsemane Brown fought off an attack by a sleazy hotel developer who wanted to turn her Irish cottage into a tourist trap. Now she must face a vengeful ghost determined to exact revenge for her murder centuries ago. This ghost’s wrath spares no one—not Gethsemane’s students, Inspector Niall O’Reilly, fellow teacher Frankie Grennan, or a group of ghost hunters descended on Dunmullach to capture proof ghosts exist. Proof Gethsemane has to quash to keep Eamon, her resident ghost and friend, from becoming an internet sensation. As if a spiteful specter wasn’t bad enough, a crooked music reviewer turns up dead in the opera house orchestra pit, a famous composer is arrested for the crime, and Gethsemane must team up with a notorious true-crime author to clear his name. If she doesn’t, friends will die, a ghost she cares about will never know peace, and she’ll star in a final act gruesome enough for any opera.
Praise
Book 1, Murder in G Major, Winner of the 2017 Lefty Award for Best Debut Novel, 2016 Agatha Award nominee for Best First Novel, Suspense magazine “Best of 2016” selection in Debut Novel category
Book 2, Death in D Minor, Runner-Up, 2017 Lone Star Bloggers’ Choice Awards, Best Mystery/Suspense, Short List, 2017 Lone Star Bloggers’ Choice Awards, Best Series
Book 3, Killing in C Sharp, Starred review, Publisher’s Weekly, January 29, 2018
Today we have author Alexia Gordon visiting and giving us her thoughts on various topics. Welcome!
How has being a Texan (or Texas) influenced your writing?
My three years in Dallas had a huge influence on my writing, thanks to the Writer’s Path creative writing program at Southern Methodist University and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. The Writer’s Path taught me how to take an idea from “What if?” to finished manuscript. The sublime performances by the DSO under the leadership of Jaap van Sweden inspired my main character’s classical music background.
What literary character is most like you?
I couldn’t find any literary characters who reminded me of me; that’s why I took Toni Morrison’s advice: “If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” Two characters I’d like to resemble: I’d like to be cool like Archie Goodwin and adventuresome like Alice in Wonderland.
What are some day jobs that you have held? Have any of them impacted your writing?
The only day job I’ve had—the one I still have—is physician. Some of my minor characters are physicians but I found that I got too down-in-the-weeds technical when I tried to create a physician main character. My underlying love of puzzles and problem-solving impacted both my choice of career and my choice of genre.
What did you find most useful in learning to write for publication? What was least useful?
The most useful writing advice I received was 1) put danger on the first page, 2) make everything serve the plot (i.e., don t include a detail just for the sake of including it; make sure it serves a purpose in your story), 3) don t change your story just because someone wishes you’d written something different. This doesn’t mean don t edit for grammatical errors, clarity, plot cohesion, etc. But if you write a story about ninja kittens, don’t rewrite your story into one about elephant computer hackers just because someone says your story would be “better” if you wrote about elephant computer hackers. Maybe they’re the only person in the world who’d rather read about elephant computer hackers than ninja kittens. The worst advice I’ve received? Change the kittens into elephants.
If you were an animal in a zoo, what would you be? In four words or less, tell us why.
I’d be a lioness–bad-ass jungle boss cat.
A writer since childhood, I put literary endeavors on hold to finish medical school and Family Medicine residency training. Medical career established, I returned to writing fiction. I completed SMU’s Writer’s Path program in Dallas, Texas. Henery Press published my first novel, Murder in G Major, book one of the Gethsemane Brown mysteries, in September 2016. Book two, Death in D Minor, releases July 11, 2017.
Murder in G Major won the Lefty Award for Best Debut Novel, was nominated for an Agatha Award for Best New Novel, and was selected one of Suspense Magazine’s Best Debuts. I listen to classical music, drink whiskey, and blog at www.missdemeanors.com, voted one of Writers’ Digest magazine’s 101 best websites for writers, and featured on Femmes Fatales.
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One winner receives a signed copy of Killing in C Sharp and
a bottle of Koval Bourbon Whiskey
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MARCH 13-22, 2018
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