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Ellis Vidler

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South Carolina author: PRIME TARGET, suspense with a love story; TIME OF DEATH, suspense with a hint of romance; COLD COMFORT, romantic suspense; HAUNTING REFRAIN, suspense with a little romance; THE PEEPER, with Jim Christopher, suspense. Ellis's novels contain adult language and situations.
3 short stories, TEA IN THE AFTERNOON, Southern fiction.
Some favorites: To Kill a Mockingbird, Prince of Tides, Tarzan of the Apes, Anne of Green Gables, The Lord of the Rings, Beach Music--those are on my shelf of favorites. So many books, so little time!
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Each chapter should end with something unresolved, somethingthe reader wants to know. It may be as subtle as waiting for an importantletter, or it can be a real cliffhanger, with the hero treading water in ablack ocean as the cruise ship lights fade into the night, but to keep thereader turning the pages, his curiosity must be aroused and not satisfied.And then?The unresolved issue doesn’t
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“Bad decisions make good stories.
--from an Internet list.”
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“But it was worth it, she reminded herself, making a mental note to pick up Mrs. Armstrong’s proofs from the lab.”
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“He couldn't afford to alienate her just now—she was the only item of interest in what looked like a dead-end case.”
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“Bad decisions make good stories.
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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
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“Why do we write?
"To make suffering endurable
To make evil intelligible
To make justice desirable
and . . . to make love possible”
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“At the prosecution table, Flagler gave me his Ivy League snicker. If I wanted, I could dangle him out the window by his ankles. But then, I was picking up penalties for late hits while he was singing tenor with the Whiffenpoofs. Okay, so I’m not Yale Law Review, but I’m proud of my diploma. University of Miami. Night division. Top half of the bottom third of my class.”
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“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
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message 2: by Betsy (last edited Apr 30, 2012 12:45PM)

Betsy Hi Ellis,
I'm not sure if you'll get my reccommendation or not for - I Went To Harvard For This ? - or not. It deals with cooking and although its' not a cozy mystery by a long shot,it is absolutely the funniest time-travel story I've ever read. The heroine goes back to the 50's after blowing up a tinfoil fast food dinner in her micro-wave. This accident occurs after losing her job for coming up with the slogan:"The Best Your Mother Ever Faked." for a new line of Swanson type dinners. If you were raised in the 50's or 60's you'll relate to every hysterical quip.


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Beth Hi Ellis,
Thanks for befriending this fellow mystery author on Goodreads!


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