League of Utah Writers Award Winner! Somebody's murdering authors of thriller books. Guess what? You're next. SynDee Unser, a fitness instructor and writer of thriller novels, dreams of becoming a bestselling author. Since the death of her husband, she also dreams of finding another Mr. Right, falling in love, and once again embarking on that "living happily ever after" journey. Thus far, however, based on her experience of slow book sales and the lack of dating action, she deems both dreams are just that. Pie-in-the-sky dreams. But that's about to change. Circumstances draw three bachelors into SynDee's life. Aimes, a poet she recently met at a MeetUp; R.C., a retired Navy SEAL she knows from the Spin class she instructs; and Bart, the owner of the Fiddle and Grub restaurant she frequents. While aroused in the presence of Aimes and R.C., uneasiness settles over her when she's near Bart. She's certain more than once he's secretly snapped photos of her while she was dining. A serial killer tagged the "Thriller Book Killer" by a group of amateur cyber sleuths, murders female authors of thriller novels. Indeed, he has mastered the ultimate publicity stunt to catapult authors of thrillers out of e-book obscurity and onto best seller book lists by bringing the writer's killer to life then murdering the author exactly as described in her book. When the media reports the murder details and the connection to the novel, the dead author's book rockets to "best seller" status overnight. SynDee fits "The Thriller Book Killer's" victim profile perfectly. Perhaps too perfectly. Evidence stacks up. The killer is someone close to SynDee. Could the "Thriller Book Killer" be Aimes? R.C.? Bart? Or…? Will SynDee identify the real "Thriller Book Killer" before she becomes another of his bestselling dead authors? Download the award-winning "The Thriller Book Killer" today to explore the "A Killer Among Us" series of killer-good stand-alone novels.
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Shirley strives for what she calls, "plausible realism" in her books and garners critical details from her "police ride along" experiences as well as educating herself by attending and graduating from the West Jordan Citizen's Police Academy and receiving training as a CERT member (Community Emergency Response Team). She is currently a West Jordan Police Department VIPS (Volunteer In Police Service).
When researching Ultimate Trust (book 2 in the Jewels Trust M.U.R.D.E.R. series) her antagonist built a bomb and consequently blew up a house. To ensure the scene was "plausible" she met with the fire chief and a SWAT arson investigator who helped her "build a better bomb" for her story!
"Thinking up and plotting the dastardly deeds of demented killers is a challenge," Shirley says. "However the real fun begins when figuring out how my heroine--and her studly hero, of course--will turn the tables, outsmart the twisted murderer, and survive."
In real life, Shirley has been a victim of human predators more than once, yet lives by the motto: No matter what horrible circumstance life hurls at you, choose to survive and become stronger because of it. She uses that maxim as a guide when writing her novels.
Shirley often wrangles friends into "role playing" when researching scenes and admits she "experiments" on herself and has done so with some of the tools her bad guys use, including duct tape, a variety of rope, and handcuffs. She even locked herself in the trunk of her car and attempted to escape. Hmmm. Knowing this, you may wonder how many of the stunts described in her books she tried on herself ... but she'll never tell!
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