Appraisal for Murder - Paperback

Elaine L. Orr is the Amazon bestselling author of the ten-book Jolie Gentil cozy mystery series, set at the Jersey shore. Behind the Walls was a finalist for the 2014 Chanticleer Mystery and Mayhem Awards. The first book in Elaine's River's Edge cozy mystery series, From Newsprint to Footprints, debuted in late fall 2015, followed by Demise of a Devious Neighbor. The fictional South County sits along the Des Moines River in Southeast Iowa. In 2016 she issued Tip a Hat to Murder, first in the Logland mystery series. Set in small-town Illinois, its protagonist is a police chief rather than an amateur sleuth. Elaine also writes plays and novellas, including the one-act, Common Ground and Permission to Hope, which was part of the Bethesda, MD Plays in Progress series in 1989. Her novella, Biding Time, was one of five finalists in the National Press Club's first fiction contest, in 1993. The most recent novella, Falling Into Place, has been called "a very gentle story about some of life's most difficult moments." Elaine conducts presentations on electronic publishing and other writing-related topics. Nonfiction includes Words to Write By: Getting Your Thoughts on Paper and Writing in Retirement: Putting New Year's Resolutions to Work. She also conducts online courses on writing and publishing for Teachable. Thought her degrees are in government, Elaine studied writing at the University of Maryland, Georgetown University School of Continuing Education, the Writer's Center of Bethesda, Maryland, and the University of Iowa's Summer Writing Festival. A member of Sisters in Crime and the Indiana Writers' Center, Elaine grew up in Maryland and moved to the Midwest in 1994. You can find her each October at the Magna Cum Murder Conference in Indianapolis. www.elaineorr.com