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    Serpent's Tooth: A Victoria Sears/Lynn Hanson Mystery
    Serpent's Tooth: A Victoria Sears/Lynn Hanson Mystery
    Serpent's Tooth: A Victoria Sears/Lynn Hanson Mystery
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    Serpent's Tooth: A Victoria Sears/Lynn Hanson Mystery

    By Michael R. Collings

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    A young man, relatively new to Fox Creek and living with his elderly grandmother, is discovered dead in his bed after having been severely beaten. Unfortunately, the first person to see the body is Carver Ellis; and the first police officer on the scene is already convinced that young Ellis not only found the body but murdered the victim.

    It’s up to Victoria Sears and her new best friend from down-mountain, Lynn Hanson, to work hand-in-hand with Chief Deputy Richard Wroten not only to clear Ellis of any complicity in the death, but to join together a tortuous series of clues to uncover precisely how and why Eric Johansson died.

    Can they do it before a crucial piece of evidence disappears?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWildside Press
    Release dateSep 9, 2011
    ISBN9781434437259
    Serpent's Tooth: A Victoria Sears/Lynn Hanson Mystery
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    Michael R. Collings

    I am a professor emeritus of English at Pepperdine University in Malibu CA (although my retirement home is in southwestern Idaho). During my twenty-seven years at Pepperdine I taught everything from Freshman Composition to Advanced Grammar to Business Writing; from Survey of English Literature to Milton and the Epic; from Introduction to Creative Writing to Senior Seminars in Writing.Along the way, I discovered the joys of writing, not just to meet requirements for graduate degrees or to insure tenure, but for myself--saying things in a way that might make my thoughts more interesting for readers and thereby invite them back into the books I talked about. Most of my academic writing relates to authors I love: John Milton, the great 17th-century English poet, on the one hand; Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, Piers Anthony, and additional science fiction, fantasy, and horror writers on the other.But my real love now is creative writing: novels, short stories, and most especially poetry. My offerings range from the three-line haiku found in Tissue Promises to a 6,500-line epic, The Nephiad. And everything in between.Please let me know what you think at my website: http://www.starshineandshadows.com/

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