Genres: Cozy Mystery/Humor/Romance
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Valerie E. Tate
Valerie is a recently retired teacher living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She has a degree in English Literature from Victoria College at the University of Toronto, which included an advanced writing course with the Author in Residence, and a teaching degree. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine published her short story, DEADLY QUINTET a number of years ago. She shares her life with her family, as well as two horses and a dog. As you can see from the photo, her Jack Russell Terrier is a big help in her writing, reading, and making notes on her manuscripts. His favourite character is Horatio, Mrs. Short's Cairn Terrier.
Valerie is seeking representation or a publisher for her mystery novel, CATNIP, which is complete at 71,240 words.
Catnip
by Valerie E. Tate
What can go wrong when an elderly matriarch leaves the family fortune to her cat? Just about everything, including ‘catnapping’ and murder!
‘Finally, what you'll all have gathered to hear, I give, devise, bequeath and appoint my entire estate, including all financial assets, properties and personal possessions to my only true friend and companion, my cat, Marmalade.’
With those words, Amanda Dunbar sets in motion a series of events that will lead her family and Christopher Mallory, the young attorney who finds himself trustee to the cat, into mischief, misadventure and murder!
CATNIP is a mystery set in the picturesque town of Dunbarton, Ontario and tells the story of what befalls the dysfunctional Dunbar family, and the chaos that ensues, when the matriarch of the clan leaves the family fortune to her cat. That formidable feline proves to be more than a match for the humans in his life until one fateful night when, caught unawares, he is stuffed in a sack and carried away. A nosy neighbour with a nasty, suspicious mind points the finger of suspicion at Christopher and the Dunbars and, under the terms of the will, they face losing everything. When a murder occurs, Christopher finds himself confronting a ruthless killer who would do anything, including kill again, to conceal his/her identity.
What can go wrong when an elderly matriarch leaves the family fortune to her cat? Just about everything, including ‘catnapping’ and murder!
‘Finally, what you'll all have gathered to hear, I give, devise, bequeath and appoint my entire estate, including all financial assets, properties and personal possessions to my only true friend and companion, my cat, Marmalade.’
With those words, Amanda Dunbar sets in motion a series of events that will lead her family and Christopher Mallory, the young attorney who finds himself trustee to the cat, into mischief, misadventure and murder!
CATNIP is a mystery set in the picturesque town of Dunbarton, Ontario and tells the story of what befalls the dysfunctional Dunbar family, and the chaos that ensues, when the matriarch of the clan leaves the family fortune to her cat. That formidable feline proves to be more than a match for the humans in his life until one fateful night when, caught unawares, he is stuffed in a sack and carried away. A nosy neighbour with a nasty, suspicious mind points the finger of suspicion at Christopher and the Dunbars and, under the terms of the will, they face losing everything. When a murder occurs, Christopher finds himself confronting a ruthless killer who would do anything, including kill again, to conceal his/her identity.
Horse Sense
The second novel in The Dunbarton Mysteries Series
by Valerie E. Tate
When Olympic Dressage Rider Alex Craig discovers that she has been the victim of fraud and theft she calls on her best friends, Alicia and Chris Mallory, to discover who has stolen her dream of a foal by the world’s top dressage stallion. Their quest to discover what happened to the $10,000 straw of frozen semen takes them into the world of Olympic level dressage and international horse breeding. When people start dying, Chris and Alicia must unmask the murderer to avoid being next.
This is the second in the Dunbarton Series of mysteries that began with CATNIP.
by Valerie E. Tate
When Olympic Dressage Rider Alex Craig discovers that she has been the victim of fraud and theft she calls on her best friends, Alicia and Chris Mallory, to discover who has stolen her dream of a foal by the world’s top dressage stallion. Their quest to discover what happened to the $10,000 straw of frozen semen takes them into the world of Olympic level dressage and international horse breeding. When people start dying, Chris and Alicia must unmask the murderer to avoid being next.
This is the second in the Dunbarton Series of mysteries that began with CATNIP.
