The Minuscule Monk: A Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective Mystery has been published and is now available on Amazon in print book edition. The e-book editions will be available in one week on Kindle, Smashwords, iTunes and Barnes & Noble.
Many of you have supported me in my Girl Detective project and I want to thank everyone for their encouragement, inspiration and knowledge about Lizzie Borden and her Fall River. I hope my attempts at self-promotion do not feel out of place here. I know that several of you have asked about this book for years.
It would be helpful if you all can post reviews of the book on Amazon, give it a star rating, or just purchase it for your own reading pleasure. More information about the book and how to purchase it can be found on my blog, http://www.lizziebordengirldetective.com.
I'll be doing a book signing at the Fall River Historical Society on August 1 at noon. You can come and enjoy the show and meet Herr Hugo von Trotter the Truth-Telling Dog.
When a dead body mysteriously appears in the basement of her father’s furniture store, 17 year-old Lizzie Andrew Borden immediately takes on the case. Accompanied by an eccentric millionaire who campaigns to extend the vote to animals; a Boston terrier trained to sniff out crooked politicians; and a boy detective who believes the entire universe to be inside his own head, Lizzie follows a trail of taxidermy tools and Civil War bushwhackers to the Minuscule Monk, a legendary gunslinger whose mummified body will bring a punter’s pot to anyone who can deliver it to the New York gangster who has been hunting the Monk for decades. With such high stakes, everyone has a motive for murder, yet everyone seems innocent. Or perhaps, as Lizzie suspects after attending a dinner party with non-existent food and meeting a horse that has turned into its opposite, none of it is even real. Lizzie Borden, the Girl Detective of Fall River, is at her most spirited in The Minuscule Monk, a comic mystery that paints a portrait of Fall River at the height of its splendor and its most infamous citizen at the start of her most excellent career.
