Morgan’s Landing – Release Blitz and Giveaway

 

Where is Julie Morgan?

 

Morgan’s Landing

by Linda Griffin

Genre: Mystery, Police Procedural

 

 

Morgan’s Landing is a fast-paced, unpredictable mystery you’ll devour in a single sitting.”

 ~ Indies Today

 

In the small Maryland town of Morgan’s Landing, fourteen-year-old Julie Morgan is living in comfort with her wealthy family. She disappears on her way to school after a spat with her twin sister.

Detective Jim Brady, married and the father of two, has been on the Morgan’s Landing police force for twelve years. He identifies a few suspects in the girl’s disappearance—Is it the fired school janitor, a paroled sex offender, Julie’s computer teacher…or his own teenage son? Jim can’t believe his son could be involved, but his wife is convinced the boy is hiding something.

He needs to find Julie before the worst happens—and keep the peace at home.

 

 

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I was born and raised in San Diego, California and earned a BA in English from San Diego State University and an MLS from UCLA. I began my career as a reference and collection development librarian in the Art and Music Section of the San Diego Public Library and then transferred to the Literature and Languages Section, where I had the pleasure of managing the Central Library’s Fiction collection. Although I also enjoy reading biography, memoir, and history, fiction remains my first love. In addition to the three R’s—reading, writing, and research—I enjoy Scrabble, movies, and travel.

 

My earliest ambition was to be a “book maker” and I wrote my first story, “Judy and the Fairies,” with a plot stolen from a comic book, at the age of six. I broke into print in college with a story in the San Diego State University literary journal, The Phoenix, but most of my magazine publications came after I left the library to spend more time on my writing.

 

My stories have been published in numerous journals, including Eclectica, Thema Literary Journal, Avalon Literary Review, The Nassau Review, and Orbis, and in the anthologies Short Story America, Vol. 2, The Captive and the Dead, Australia Burns, 2023 in a Flash, and Apocalypse.

 

Member of the Authors Guild and Sisters in Crime

 

 

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52 Comments

  1. Lisa Brown

    Sounds great, I hope I get a chance to read it :)

  2. Marcy Meyer

    The cover looks good. Sounds like a good story. Thanks for sharing.

    • Linda Griffin

      Thank you, Marcy. Credit for the cover art goes to Lisa Dawn MacDonald.

    • Linda Griffin

      Thank you, Marcy. All credit for the cover goes to Lisa Dawn MacDonald.

  3. Deborah D

    Linda,
    How did you come up with the plot of this book? How long was the writing process?

    • Linda Griffin

      Hi, Deborah. I was interested not so much in the solution to the mystery as in how a small town detective would go about solving it and how the townspeople would react and speculate. Most of the writing was done in less than three months, but there was a lot of revision after that.

    • Soha Molina

      Question for Author–What inspired you to become a writer?

  4. Barbara Montag

    I would love reading this book!
    Thank you for sharing the excerpt.

    • Linda Griffin

      Thank you for stopping by, Barbara.

    • Linda Griffin

      Yes, Lisa Dawn MacDonald does wonderful work. Thanks, Leo!

  5. Wendy Jensen

    This sounds like a great mystery read.

  6. heather

    This so sounds like a great read and one that will keep me interested for sure!

  7. Piroska

    The book sounds very intriguing. I love a good mystery!

  8. Linda Griffin

    Thank you, Piroska! So do I!

  9. Deborah D

    Where do you leave a comment? I clicked on the the blitz link and it says oops page can’t be found.

  10. Linda Griffin

    I had the same problem, but it would have just looped back here anyway. You can leave your comments here.–in fact you did! Thanks for dropping by.

    • Linda Griffin

      Thank you! Lisa Dawn MacDonald is the artist.

  11. Heather Swanson

    Looks very exciting Do you write in a daily journal?

    • Linda Griffin

      I do write in my journal every day. Not very excirtingly, I;m afraid!

  12. Debbi Wellenstein

    I enjoyed reading about Morgan’s Landing. Thanks for the giveaway!

    • Linda Griffin

      Thank you for commenting, Debbi.

    • Linda Griffin

      Thank you! I was very happy with it.

    • Linda Griffin

      Thanks for stopping by, Stephanie!

  13. Nina Lewis

    Love the trailer! Happy Release Day! :)

  14. David Basile

    This sounds like a good mystery

  15. Ann Fantom

    This sounds like an interesting book and I also like the cover.

    • Linda Griffin

      Thank you, Ann! I was very pleased with the cover too.

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