Creativity emerges in many forms. Painting and writing are two of the ways I enjoy expressing myself most.

My Novels

All forms of art–painting, music, writing, sculpture–are connected to each other, and my latest artistic expressions include five recently published mystery novels having to do with art, history, travel and even a little romance: Painting Lessons: a Bella Sarver Mystery, Brush With Death: a Bella Sarver Mystery, and Paint a Murder: a Bella Sarver Mystery, Death on the Danube: a Bella Sarver Mystery, and the latest, The Butterfly Carpet Murders.

All artist Bella Sarver really wants to do is paint and teach and enjoy her post-retirement career, but somehow she and her friends keep finding themselves in the midst of murder. Thanks to her knowledge of art, Bella manages to point the way to ‘whodunnit.’ My mystery novels offer an insider view of the art world that most ordinary artists live and work in.

A Wonderful Good Morning is a Speculative mystery with apocalyptic overtones.

Tim Pfeiffer is a young meteorologist from Chicago who feels like a fish out of water while on a Rhine River cruise populated almost exclusively by the over-70 set. He is beginning to feel pretty comfortable though, sort of like traveling with his grandparents, when things become really strange. He keeps having this sense of déjà vu, as if he’d experienced these particular destinations only yesterday. Maybe he really did.

Riva’s Journey: a Memoir is the book my grandmother might have written if she’d had the chance. It’s the story of a Jewish woman born in the Russian Pale of Settlement, an area into which nearly all the Jews living in the Russian Empire were restricted, in the late 19th century. It was a tumultuous time in history, especially for the Jews who were caught up, not only in the continuous wars and revolutions, but additionally, in the unrelenting anti-Semitism that made their lives difficult and precarious. It’s the story of a woman who left that life and immigrated to a new and better life in America. It’s the story of every immigrant, past and present, who uprooted themselves and journey into the unknown, in the hope of a better life for their children.

All 7 books are available on Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle versions.