Bleeding Blue

As women sleuths go, Billie Bly is one tough private investigator. But when her psychic tells her she is to stumble upon a murder, she wishes the seer also would have told her it was Billie who was to be the victim in her own private murder mystery.Maybe her psychic didn’t want to give her more to worry about. Billie’s already stressed because of a looming million-dollar lawsuit, a missing client who doesn’t want to be found, and her on again off again romance with her former cop partner.To learn who wants her dead and why people are dying around her, Billie follows a trail of evidence to Portland’s City Hall. It’s crawling with suspects: a mayor who wants to be governor at any cost; his mistress, who wants to tag along with or without her city auditor husband; a city commissioner who hires a private investigator to spy on Billie; and an ambitious cop seeking advancement at any price. The suspense mounts as the mayor attempts to put Billie under house arrest for her own good and an assassin tries to kill her in a drive-by shooting, then takes out a chief witness at the Portland Pirate Festival. Billie begins thinking she needs better paranormal advice. Perhaps a psychic who tell her who is behind this crime surge.Is the assassin a man Billie once loved? Will she find the truth before the murderer finds her? And who will walk away from a late-night shootout on the Portland riverfront?

Don lives in Portland, Oregon, most widely known as the location for TV shows Portlandia, Grimm and Leverage. He is a member of Willamette Writers and Oregon Writer’s Colony, and is the Volunteer Coordinator for the annual Willamette Writers Conference with over 1000 attendees. He also volunteers with Oregon Writer’s Colony staging author workshops and literary events. He graduated from Idaho State University with a degree in Journalism and worked as news reporter at several newspapers in Portland where he covered police and city government. As a teenager, Don was a voracious reader of Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dashiell Hammett, and other mystery authors and loves all kinds of mysteries. He writes thriller and hard-boiled yarns ＂but somehow humor manages to sneak into my writing voice,＂ Don says. He also writes a blog on writing and getting publishing called I Love A Mystery. He has a short story available on Kindle called ＂Death Fits Like a Glove.＂ It features the debut of woman sleuth Billie Bly, a tough female Private Investigator who turns a petnapping case into a lethal climax. He currently is working on another Billie Bly mystery-thriller, The Drone Apocalypse, about an assassin who converts a remote control aircraft into a drone to kill a popular presidential candidate.