Upheavals at Cuma: an E.T. Madigan Mystery (The E.T. Madigan Mystery Series: Upheavals at Cuma, White Flutters in Munich, and Maine Roots Run Deep) - Softcover

Mularz, Joan Wright

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1500361720 ISBN 13: 9781500361723

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

Twelve-year-old Ellen Theodora Madigan doesn’t want to be a psychic. However, when her family moves to Cuma, Italy and lands her at the site of one of the renowned ancient oracles — the Cumaean Sibyl, she no longer has a choice. Her supernatural gift brings on strange dreams and the feeling that an old mystery on the Cuma hillside needs to be solved. Ellen's curiosity is heightened by a series of disturbing events that all seem to be connected to a pet collar she obtains from a local farmer. While coming to terms with her paranormal gift, she is confronted with cryptic messages, attempted murder and sybilline ghosts and must use her wits to solve two mysterious long-ago deaths. In the process, she must convince her family, her newfound Italian friends and even NATO to help her set things in motion. Good thing, because these deaths have international repercussions! This is the first book in a series of E.T. Madigan mysteries.

About this title

From the Author:

Joan Wright Mularz lived near Cuma in southern Italy for two and a half years,

About the Author:

Joan Wright Mularz was born into a large family on an island in the middle of New York Harbor. Childhood days spent with five siblings, lots of cousins and dozens of neighborhood kids weren't organized but were busy and fueled by imagination. Joan always enjoyed writing and drawing and her high school days were enriched with essay contests, Saturday art lessons and working at the public library. When it came time for college, she commuted daily by ferry to Manhattan. Through her studies and especially art history courses, she developed a yen to see the places she read about. She scrimped and saved while still a student and headed to Europe, truly bitten by the travel bug. When she met her husband, she found a kindred spirit with a love for exploring new places. They spent their honeymoon on an adventure in Venezuela. After that, Joan began teaching, had two children, and earned graduate degrees. Her family life has been rich with travel opportunities in the U.S and Canada, Europe, Asia, Central and South America, and Africa - both for work and for pleasure. Her experiences as a parent and a teacher, both here and abroad, have influenced Joan to write for young people. She has also written curriculums, educational grants, children's books for her own use in the classroom, and always makes notes about the places she travels. Joan lived in Italy for 2 and a half years, and that became the inspiration for her first E. T. Madigan mystery, Upheavals at Cuma. Six years in Germany led to the writing of the second mystery, White Flutters in Munich, which she is working on now. When not traveling, Joan now divides much of her time between a small town in Massachusetts and a small town in the western hills of Maine. She enjoys reading, walking, kayaking, hiking, downhill skiing, snowshoeing, gardening, redecorating, art, and, most of all, her family and friends.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1500361720
• ISBN 13: 9781500361723
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 383
• Illustrator: Novak Steven