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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.
My protagonists are in
general, more seasoned women who seek or
have already found the knowledge and
peace that comes with survival, often
teaching me lessons I struggle to learn.
Their weapons are humor and good sense
and the stories rarely focus on
violence, bloodshed, and the sometimes
overwhelming darker side 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 read stories that
don't cause me to grit my teeth or
create a knot in my stomach. Those
are
the stories I write.
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 that takes place 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'.
In the fall of 2010, I released of
Mrs.
Quigley's Kidnapping,
about a female detective in Chicago in
1968, and in 2011,
Flowers for
Her Grave, an old
fashioned whodunit about two amateur
sleuths in their early sixties intent on
solving a 20-year-old crime.
You
can find 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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