Hillary’s body lay on the slate floor, a hand at the collar of her green scrubs, blood puddled around her head and shoulder. A red gash still glistened across her pale neck”
Jack Fell Down: Missing Children Mysteries Novella #1
Copyright 2014 Michelle Knowlden
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My heartfelt thanks go to:
My beta readers: Debra Young, Rebecca Lang, Kris Klopfenstein and Jeanine Gattas
OC Fictionaires: for your encouragement and comments on this novella.
To Ken, Jean, Dave, Shereen, and Neal: your support over the years warms my heart.
And, to the teachers in my life whose commitment to children inspired this novella: Linda, Sue, Chris, Lori, Debbie, Myron, Claudia, Maureen, Susie, Becky, and James … you save lives every day.
DEDICATION
To my family with love, always
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Between 1992 and 2011, Michelle Knowlden published 14 stories with Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine that featured hypochondriac detective Micky Cardex and others that did not. The 1998 story “No, Thank You, John” was nominated for a Shamus award. Many of these stories have been included in anthologies and translated in multiple languages. She also published a science fiction story for the More Amazing Stories anthology published by Tor.
In 2013, Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing released Sinking Ships, her first short novel in the Abishag Mysteries Quartet. In February 2014, the second Abishag mystery, Indelible Beats, was published followed by Riddle in Bones in April. The fourth and final Abishag mystery will be published August/September 2014.
Young Adult SF with Neal Shusterman: An X-Files novel (Dark Matter) for HarperCollins under the name Easton Royce and an e-novella Unstrung in Neal’s Unwind world published by Simon & Schuster.
In 2011, Michelle left an engineering career of many years to write full-time. Read more at Michelle Knowlden writes… at http://mlknowlden.wordpress.com/.
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