avg_rating: 4.11
name: Linda Lovely
about: A native of Iowa, Linda has called the South home for more than forty years. Her tenth novel, NEIGHBORS TO DIE FOR will be released November 8, 2022 by publisher Level Best Books. It's the second book in a new HOA (homeowner association) Mystery Series set in the South Carolina Lowcountry and featuring heroine Kylee Kane, a retired Coast Guard investigator.Linda's cozy Brie Hooker Mystery series, published by Henery Press, includes three humorous cozy mysteries set in a fictitious county near her current home in Upstate South Carolina. The heroine is a vegan chef who lives on a goat dairy farm with her aunt, a cantankerous carnivore. BONES TO PICK, PICKED OFF, and BAD PICK are the titles.Linda has published books in two other series. Her Ma A native of Iowa, Linda has called the South home for more than forty years. Her tenth novel, NEIGHBORS TO DIE FOR will be released November 8, 2022 by publisher Level Best Books. It's the second book in a new HOA (homeowner association) Mystery Series set in the South Carolina Lowcountry and featuring heroine Kylee Kane, a retired Coast Guard investigator.Linda's cozy Brie Hooker Mystery series, published by Henery Press, includes three humorous cozy mysteries set in a fictitious county near her current home in Upstate South Carolina. The heroine is a vegan chef who lives on a goat dairy farm with her aunt, a cantankerous carnivore. BONES TO PICK, PICKED OFF, and BAD PICK are the titles.Linda has published books in two other series. Her Marley Clark Mysteries dish up a main course of suspense, action and adventure with a generous side of humor and romance. DEAR KILLER and NO WAKE ZONE feature Marley Clark, a kick-ass, 52-year-old heroine. Linda's Smart Women, Dumb Luck romantic thrillers chronicle the adventures of three smart--and very different--women, who became friends by dumb luck. DEAD LINE, the first "Smart" novel, was honored as a finalist in the National Readers' Choice Awards and the published Maggies. DEAD HUNT, second in the series, is set in Upstate South Carolina.Prior to landing her first publishing contract, Linda's manuscripts made the finals in 15 contests, including RWA’s prestigious Golden Heart and Daphne du Maurier competitions and mystery contests such as Deadly Ink, Murder in the Grove and Malice Domestic. The author belongs to Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, International Thriller Writers, and the South Carolina Writers Association. For many years, she helped organize the Writers' Police Academy. She feels quite lucky to have found close friends and exceptional critique partners—snarky, funny, talented and generous—through these organizations. She lives with her husband beside a South Carolina lake, where she regularly perturbs the geese and one honking big turtle by jumping off her dock for a swim or pedaling (yes, pedaling not paddling) her kayak. Linda can’t imagine going to bed without a book nightcap. Thankfully her husband shares her passion for reading so she doesn’t have to use a miner’s light. ...more