Patricia L. Morin
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Mystery Montage is a collection of short story mystery genres; a woman celebrating
her husband’s seventy-fifth birthday, finds an engagement ring and makes it her
mission to solve what she believes to be a murder; the tribal leader of a small
remote Mara village suspects that it was not really a lioness that killed the cattle
guardian; a young woman’s fight to overcome depression and memory loss
brought on by the death of her fiancé, uses her daily journal entries to decipher
clues to her fiancés murder; a nurse is stalked on a train by her boyfriend while
traveling to visit her family for the holidays; a gambling man is killed on a late-
night walk down a Hawaiian boulevard and his food-loving wife is held for ransom
by a food-loving bookie looking to have debts repaid; two spirit guides help a self-
centered woman solve her own murder before she crosses over to the spiritual
plane; in the shady LA rap-music scene, a retired detective is pulled back into
action to solve a rival band member’s murder; an old murder unfolds through the
messages left on an answering machine; a man is killed by a golf ball while
planning to divorce his rich wife who is plotting his murder; two old flames
pretending to be what they are not, try to reconnect through email and suspect each
other of murder; a women in her car stopped at a red light watches a man, who to
all appearances, seems homeless.
her husband’s seventy-fifth birthday, finds an engagement ring and makes it her
mission to solve what she believes to be a murder; the tribal leader of a small
remote Mara village suspects that it was not really a lioness that killed the cattle
guardian; a young woman’s fight to overcome depression and memory loss
brought on by the death of her fiancé, uses her daily journal entries to decipher
clues to her fiancés murder; a nurse is stalked on a train by her boyfriend while
traveling to visit her family for the holidays; a gambling man is killed on a late-
night walk down a Hawaiian boulevard and his food-loving wife is held for ransom
by a food-loving bookie looking to have debts repaid; two spirit guides help a self-
centered woman solve her own murder before she crosses over to the spiritual
plane; in the shady LA rap-music scene, a retired detective is pulled back into
action to solve a rival band member’s murder; an old murder unfolds through the
messages left on an answering machine; a man is killed by a golf ball while
planning to divorce his rich wife who is plotting his murder; two old flames
pretending to be what they are not, try to reconnect through email and suspect each
other of murder; a women in her car stopped at a red light watches a man, who to
all appearances, seems homeless.
Patricia Morin is a licensed psychotherapist with masters in
Counseling Psychology and Clinical Social Work, and is also a
certified herbalist. Her writing accomplishments include: mystery
anthology Little Sisters, Vol 1, "The Pool Room" (Shannon Road
Press, CA, 2007); Third Place humorous-mystery prize winner in
Deadly Ink Anthology, "In the Rough" (Deadly Ink Press, NJ,
2008); humorous-mystery Honorable Mention in Deadly Ink
Anthology, "Under the Boardwalk" (Deadly Ink Press, NJ, 2009),
and Second Place prize in Words For Dollars literary website for
her memoir, "Grandpa Hoeler and the Race Riots". The inner
complexities of the human mind play a strong part in her stories
Counseling Psychology and Clinical Social Work, and is also a
certified herbalist. Her writing accomplishments include: mystery
anthology Little Sisters, Vol 1, "The Pool Room" (Shannon Road
Press, CA, 2007); Third Place humorous-mystery prize winner in
Deadly Ink Anthology, "In the Rough" (Deadly Ink Press, NJ,
2008); humorous-mystery Honorable Mention in Deadly Ink
Anthology, "Under the Boardwalk" (Deadly Ink Press, NJ, 2009),
and Second Place prize in Words For Dollars literary website for
her memoir, "Grandpa Hoeler and the Race Riots". The inner
complexities of the human mind play a strong part in her stories
Los Angeles, the City of Angels, home to Hollywood and Beverly Hills.
Where everyone is auditioning for a part, and where lies and deceit
come veiled as glitz and glamour. Join us, if you dare: view a
vampire movie in our Forever Hollywood Cemetery, or take a walk
along the concrete banks of the L.A. River. But watch your step.
Murder brews within the micro-cosmic homeless communes that
call it home and sometimes riffs on melodic waves from the jazz
street musicians just down the block. Twelve stories of mystery,
murder, and mayhem, from the authors of Sisters In Crime/Los
Angeles, that will send you scrambling for a bus ticket home. But
watch your back. As they say… “Nobody leaves L.A.”
Where everyone is auditioning for a part, and where lies and deceit
come veiled as glitz and glamour. Join us, if you dare: view a
vampire movie in our Forever Hollywood Cemetery, or take a walk
along the concrete banks of the L.A. River. But watch your step.
Murder brews within the micro-cosmic homeless communes that
call it home and sometimes riffs on melodic waves from the jazz
street musicians just down the block. Twelve stories of mystery,
murder, and mayhem, from the authors of Sisters In Crime/Los
Angeles, that will send you scrambling for a bus ticket home. But
watch your back. As they say… “Nobody leaves L.A.”