Second Price Hill Mystery Coming Soon

I'm happy to announce that my second mystery, An Ideal Way to Fly, will be coming out soon—within a few days, if all goes well. It's being published as the last joint venture between Edgecliff Press and the Price Hill Historical Society, and the first book from our new publishing arm at the Society, which we're calling Bold Face Press. (Price Hill was once called Bold Face Hill, after a local Indian chief who lived in the area. This is the second in my series featuring Ed McCorkel, an insurance salesman turned private detective who gets caught up in adventures in Price Hill (on the west side of Cincinnati) in the 1940s that involve German spies, carnation growers, tavern keepers, bookies, and even the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt. In the second installment, Ed splits his time between uncovering a robbery plot in Price Hill and a threat to national security on the Outer Banks in North Carolina, with plenty of action and oddball characters in both places. I'll be joining other Price Hill Historical Society authors, plus a number of other local writers, at the annual Illuminating the Arts Writers' Night on Friday, December 6, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Corner BLOC Coffeehouse on the corner of Price and Hawthorne Avenues in East Price Hill. There will be a few art galleries in the area open, too. Come out to see all of us authors and artists from the area, and maybe you know just the person who'd like a Price Hill mystery as a Christmas gift.