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Welcome
Whether you were
looking for this particular site, or
came by way of a search engine query
gone awry, please feel free to look
around. I am Jean Sheldon, and although
I have spent most of my life doing fine
and graphic art, these days, I write
mysteries.
This is my eighth year
as a mystery writer and I am as excited
about every character and every story as
I was in 2004. I learn, and hopefully
grow, with each book, not just as a
writer, but as a person. The experience
has been humbling, rewarding, exciting,
frustrating, but most of all, it has
shown me things in life I might not
otherwise have seen. It has been a gift
beyond my wildest imaginings. Do I sound
like I enjoy my work? You bet!
My sleuths are
generally aging females,
seasoned women who seek, or
have already found, the knowledge and
peace that comes with survival. I've
learned a great deal from these
characters who often teach lessons I struggle to learn.
They use humor and good sense
and the stories rarely focus on
violence, bloodshed, and the sometimes
darker sides of our nature. They don't fit most definitions I've
read of 'cozies', but if you're looking
for horrific descriptions of blood,
gore, and depravity, you won't find them
in these mysteries. I don't read stories that
cause me to grit my teeth or
create a knot in my stomach, so I don't
write them.
You can also find information on my
other mysteries.
The Woman in
the Wing
is a historical mystery about women
pilots (WASP) and factory workers (Rosie
the Riveter) during WWII.
Seven Cities
of Greed
is an
adventure in New Mexico, where I lived
for over twenty years. It involves a
group of women of a 'certain age' on a
quest for adventure and the mythical
'Seven Cities of Gold'. Also available
as an eBook is
Mrs.
Quigley's Kidnapping,
about a female detective in Chicago in
1968, and in both eBook and print,
Flowers for
Her Grave, an old
fashioned whodunit about two amateur
sleuths in their early sixties intent on
solving a 20-year-old crime.
An Uncluttered
Palette
(previously titled Monet's Palette),
my most recent mystery, is filled with
art history, oil painting, forgery,
and fun!
There are sample chapters of all the
books along with some
examples of my
artwork,
a few smatterings of
poetry,
some
articles
I've written, such as
What Does 'Tsk'
Mean Anyway,
or
It is Not
What You Think.
Want to know more
about me?
My Books
Please feel free to
contact
me with questions.
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