It’s a new year and in 2024, I’ll be alternating posts about me with introductions to other authors and their books. It’s my pleasure to kick this new series off by introducing you to my fellow Sister in Crime, Sandra Gardner, and her new suspense novel, THE MURDER BLOG. The Murder Blog was released by Black Rose Writing on December 28.

Authors helping authors…that’s what it’s all about.

About the book: A serial killer of young women is back in upstate New York after many years….

When Philomena Wolff was 17, walking home from school with her best friend, Melanie, when Melanie became one of several young women abducted and murdered in upstate New York by a killer who eventually disappeared from the area.

Philomena, now an investigative reporter, hosts a crime-solving blog, with the help of a psychic gravedigger and the blog’s readers. Her readers are with her. But so is the killer, with vile posts and threats.

Then Philomena is attacked in her Woodstock cottage. Was it the killer? And could the killer be the same one who murdered her friend long ago? Someone who might think she caught a glimpse of him?  Someone who’s back again, trolling for more young women – and Philomena?

About the author: Sandra Gardner is the author of seven traditionally published books: three nonfiction and four fiction. Her last two mysteries, Dead Shrinks Don’t Talk and Grave Expectations, were published by Black Opal Books in 2018. Halley and Me, a coming-of-age novel, won the Grassic Short Novel Prize from Evening Street Press in 2013. Nonfiction includes Teenage Suicide (Simon & Schuster); Street Gangs (Franklin Watts) and Street Gangs in America (Franklin Watts). Street Gangs in America received a book award from the National Federation of Press Women.  Previously, she was a contributing writer for The New York Times.More information about her books can be found on her website: https://sjgardner6.wixsite.com/mysite

THE MURDER BLOG is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and from the publisher, Black Rose Writing, in paperback and e-book. ISBN-13 9781685133450.