Susan L. Solomon & A.J. Kohler

Susan Lynn Solomon

A former entertainment attorney, Susan Lynn Solomon is the facilitator of the Writer’s Critique Group that is co-sponsored by the Buffalo Central Library and Just Buffalo Literary Center.

She is the author short stories that have appeared in numerous literary journals. These include, Abigail Bender (awarded an Honorable Mention in a Writers Journal short romance competition), Ginger Man, Elvira, The Memory Tree, Going Home, Yesterday’s Wings, Smoker’s Lament, Kaddish, and Sabbath (nominated for the 2013 Best of the Net). A collection of her short stories, Voices in My Head, has been released by Solstice Publishing.

Ms. Solomon is also the author of the Emlyn Goode Mysteries. A finalist in Chanticleer International Book Award’s Mystery & Mayhem Novel category, and a finalist for the 2016 Book Excellence Award, her first Emlyn Goode novel, The Magic of Murder, has received rave reviews, as have the novelettes, Bella Vita, The Day the Music Died, A Shot in the Woods, and ’Twas the Season. The second Emlyn Goode novel, Dead Again, was a finalist for both the 2017 McGrath House Indie Book of the Year and the 2018 Book Excellent Award. Writing is Murder, the third Emlyn Goode novel was awarded a First Place in the 2019 Chanticleer International Book Award Mystery & Mayhem category.

Stepping aside from mysteries, Ms. Solomon’s novel, Abigail’s Window, has been awarded a gold medal as a finalist in the Readers Favorite novel competition and the Chanticleer International Book Award gave it the Grand Prize as the best paranormal romance of 2019. In addition, her recent novel, Raising Kane if a finalist in both the Book Excellence Awards and the Chanticleer International Book Awards

Her latest books are What’s Past is Prologue and the recently published Shooting Parr, a new Emlyn Goode Mystery.

Anthony Kohler

A.J. Kohler has done insurance sales, collections and law before he retired and found heaven in a warmer climate. He now lives in the outskirts of Tucson, in the heart of the Sonoran desert, and he likes to say that his heart goes where the saguaro grows. He grows many kinds of cactus in his garden, and in the desert, learned that gardening can be a blood sport.

He initially met Suzy through editing her books, and when an idea struck him, suggested to her that they collaborate. The Magician is the result, and it’s not like anything that either one has written before. It’s also nothing like the one they’re currently collaborating – or should that be conspiring? – on.

No Third Choice

When the patriarch of Amy Youngston’s old, very rich and very private Family hires her to find out who is trying to kill him, she receives the case which will set her up for the rest of her life - or end it prematurely.

No Other Choice

Becky is in jail. The charge? Murder. There’s also a very deep and dark place inside her own head that she’s found, crawled into and pulled in after her. That’s going to be even harder to get her out of than jail, which is going to be plenty difficult by itself.

When she ends up hauling the real killer into court, she’s lucky enough that the victim’s widow screams out in open court that she’ll kill Amy just like she did her no-good cheating husband!

That works. It gets Becky out of jail. Getting her out of that pit in her own mind is going to be lots harder.

Ripped in Two

Reesa’s not looking for a relationship, she’s after for a killer. Sometimes, though, it’s easier to think outside the box when you don’t start inside it, and it’s not like he doesn’t have some involvement with these murders already. Jeff’s not bad to look at either, and he’s willing to settle for just going to lunch from time to time. That works for her.

Of course, life would be so much easier if the star local TV crime scene reporter didn’t insist on putting her front and center all the time and sneering at the fruitless efforts of both the Tucson Police and Pima County Sheriff’s Departments.

One way or another, Reesa won’t rest until the killer is brought in. Better if he’s a stranger, but if it’s this private eye who’s working to be her friend, so be it. Whoever it is will be going down.

Repeat: A Love Story For The Ages

A Reader’s Favorite Gold Medal Winner

Angelina and Paul have just had their lives rebooted to when they met almost fifty years ago, but they're not simply starting over. They still remember what happened their first time around, when they went their separate ways. Now they have a chance to do it over, knowing the mistakes they made and the choices they regretted. Even so, they can find new mistakes, new choices to regret, and they will.

You're sorry you said goodbye, way back when. You went your separate ways, and the paths you took were hard ones indeed. You'd do better if only you could start over again, wouldn't you? Especially if you remembered this life. What would such a chance look like? How would you feel? What new mistakes and bad choices would you find? Paul and Angelina could tell you – now.

Tales of the Rhadamantha, Vol. 1 – Amaranna

Amaranna is Rhadamantha — rare women born with green hair, green eyes and magic for the first man they consent to lie with. The wizard keeping her wants that power, but she wants her destined mate instead.

Mike was a cop who didn’t believe in wizards, magic, or beautiful green-haired women — until he came face-too-face with all three.

All that was left was escaping the wizard, leaving the wizardy he ruled without being caught and keeping him from killing one or both of them. Child’s play.