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Patricia Miller
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Award-winning author Patricia Miller grew up in a small town in Ohio, where she has worked as a mental health counselor for 35 years. She writes Agatha Christie-like, who-dun-it cozy mystery collections (Mysterious Tales of the Unexplained Vols 1-4), which include illustrations by middle and high school art students. Patricia also has published a YA sci-fi trilogy (The Joshua Trilogy), and she is a short story contributing author in two anthologies (Love on the Lakefront) with Mystery Weekend Romance and (Holidays in the Heartland) with A Timeless Christmas. Her first two mystery collections were each named finalists in the American Bookfest Best Book Awards, and volume 3 was a 2nd Place Purple Dragonfly award winner in the mystery category. Patricia has presented Character-Driven Writing workshops, including at the 2024 West Virginia Young Writers Celebration at the University of Charleston at the invitation of Dr. Stephanie Burdette, the Faculty Advisor for the WVSU Reading Council. Patricia is a Mystery Writers of America and Great Lake Fiction Writers member. She enjoys hiking and biking weekends and British murder mystery marathons.
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Patricia Miller writes mysteries with clever twists and turns, relatable characters and feel-good endings.
Interest in Participating in Panels or Story Time
Character-Driven Writing: Using character biographies and profiles to help you write your story.
Book 1:
Mysterious Tales of the Unexplained, Volume 2
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Summary
Ghostly dreams, hidden tunnels, haunted hallways, devious secrets, and a seemingly unbreakable Chinese puzzle box make up the four mysteries in this Collection, Mysterious Tales of the Unexplained, Volume 2. In The Spiral Staircase, 12-year-old Rylee helps her mom uncover the secrets beneath their old Victorian home. A ghostly haunt runs wild in a basement office in Scary Mary. Mable and Archie uncover illegal activities behind the murder of a fellow resident of Open Arms retirement home in A Puzzling Mystery. 17-year-old Noah shows his 18-year-old brother and three friends how to ingenuously decipher clues surrounding a giant Chinese puzzle box in Mystery Weekend at Morehead Mansion.
Book 2:
Mysterious Tales of the Unexplained, Volume 3
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$18.00
Summary
Readers of award-winning Mysterious Tales of the Unexplained, Volumes 1 & 2 will not be disappointed with Volume 3. The mystique continues in Secrets at Sea with an investigation into a murder on the high seas aboard the Agatha with returning fan-favorite amateur sleuth Kelsie Raymond and her boyfriend, Max. Vats Trouble delves into a mysterious murder when a body falls through an office window, landing into a vat of cheese. The mysterious disappearance and reappearance of a suit of armor in an old castle leads to secret passageways and the supernatural in Freakish Knight. And in Keyholes, the recent purchase of an old 3-story office building leads to trapdoors and secret rooms discovered with the help of a diary written over a century ago.
Book 3:
Mysterious Tales of the Unexplained, Volume 3
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$18.00
Summary
Amateur sleuth Kelsie Raymond bursts onto the scene again, investigating her most baffling cases in Mysterious Tales of the Unexplained, Volume 4. What starts as a birthday celebration quickly turns dangerous when Kelsie and her friends become embroiled in a complicated murder investigation in Murder on Blood Red Island. A feisty farm owner named Bertha Wiseman is framed for stealing expensive collectibles in Duck Valley Robbery. A news reporter and an estate manager reluctantly partner against strange and supernatural phenomena in a stately mansion in Home Sweet Ghostly Home. And Kelsie Raymond becomes a personal assistant turned investigator into the murder of a wealthy businessman with his son as the likely suspect in The Tethering Affair.
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