Wildwind, Sharon
Sharon Wildwind
Sharon is The Calgary Mystery Lady. Originally from the southern United States, she came to Canada a long time ago. As a child, she read adventure stories, science fiction, and mysteries, and knew more about bush pilots than she did about social graces. It took her a while to realize that the guys always got the best adventures and the best lines, a situation she set out to remedy by making up her own stories.
After a couple of real life adventures—one involving being in the U.S. Army and one working in public health in northern Alberta—she realized it was easier to write about adventurous women than be one. Her Vietnam veterans series takes place in the early 1970s. For her three veterans—two women and one man—returning to civilian life is murder. She is also working on an as-yet-unsold series about an American woman who moves to northern Alberta looking for adventure, and boy, does she find it. Waiting in the wings is a stand-alone about a flight nurse, who has to prove she didn’t kill her patient before the police prove that she did.
Sharon also teaches writing and memoir workshops and has a burning ambition to help writers stop using their word processor like a typewriter.
Selected Bibliography:
Elizabeth Pepperhawk/Avivah Rosen Vietnam veterans mystery series:
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Some Welcome Home, Five Star, 2005 Captain Elizabeth Pepperhawk survived Vietnam, but will she survive Fort Bragg? Whoever dressed a body in a World War II uniform, and put it in her bed at Normandy House, wants to shorten not only her military career, but her life. |
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First Murder in Advent, Five Star, 2006 Ex-Captain Elizabeth Pepperhawk should have stayed in the Army. She knew she wasn’t convent material. Now, she can’t decide which will kill her first, the nuns, hypothermia, or the ravages of a guilty conscience. |
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Soldier on the Porch, Five Star, 2007 If only the hospital hadn’t exploded. Two men wouldn’t be dead. Ex-Army Nurse Elizabeth Pepperhawk wouldn’t be in trouble for coming to work intoxicated. Pepper’s friend and fellow Vietnam veteran, Avivah Rosen, wouldn’t be face to face with her worst nightmare. When civilian life collapses around them, Pepper, Avivah, and their friend Benny, organize their own private squad and go on patrol. That way lies murder. |
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Missing and Presumed Wed, Five Star, 2009 Ex-Special Forces Sergeant Benny Kirkpatrick is one week away from marrying Lorraine Fulford and, as he puts it, “I’ve seen courts martial that required less preparation than this wedding.” Then Benny’s mother is abducted. When her abductor’s body is discovered, Benny, Avivah and Pepper put their own romantic entanglements aside to help Benny find the killer. The price of justice may tear Benny’s family apart forever. |
Website: www.wildwindauthor.com
Sharon blogs every week on Poe’s Deadly Daughters
http://poesdeadlydaughters.blogspot.com/
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