Murder in the Pit - Softcover

Miner, Erica

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1606191101 ISBN 13: 9781606191101

Publisher: Paladin Timeless, 2010

Synopsis

Julia Kogan, a brilliant young violinist, teams up with opera-loving cop Larry Somers to solve the high profile murder of a famous opera conductor. In the process, Julia and Larry discover an opera house rife with with a dangerous web of secrets, intrigue, lethal rivalries, and danger.

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About the Author

Violinist turned author Erica Miner has had a multi-faceted career as an award-winning screenwriter, author, lecturer and poet. A native of Detroit, she studied music at Boston University, the New England Conservatory of Music, and the Tanglewood Music Center. After experiencing a variety of highs and lows in her quest to forge a career in New York City, Erica won the coveted position of violinist with the Metropolitan Opera Company, a high-pressured milieu but the pinnacle of her field. Her life became even more challenging, however, when injuries from a car accident spelled the end of her musical career. Searching for a new creative outlet, she drew upon her lifelong love of writing for inspiration and studied poetry and screenwriting, winning a number of awards in both categories. After moving to the West coast, Erica honed her screenwriting skills with author and script guru Linda Seger of Making a Good Script Great fame and with Ken Rotcop, the author of Perfect Pitch. Erica's screenplays, one of which is based on her award-winning debut novel, Travels with My Lovers, have won awards and/or placed in such competitions as WinFemme, Santa Fe and the Writer's Digest. Her essays and articles have appeared in Vision Magazine, WORD San Diego and numerous newsletters and E-zines. Erica has completed both the novel and screenplay of her suspense thriller, Murder in the Pit, which takes place at the Met, and currently is at work on the second novel in her "FourEver Friends" series chronicling four young girls' coming of age in the volatile 60s and 70s. In addition Erica has developed a number of writing lectures and seminars, which she has presented at various venues across the West Coast and on the High Seas, where she is a "top-rated" speaker for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. Topics range from "The Art of Self Re-Invention" to "Opera Meets Hollywood" and "Journaling for Writers: Mining the Gold of Your Own Experiences."

Edition details

• Publisher: Paladin Timeless
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1606191101
• ISBN 13: 9781606191101
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228