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Malicious Intent
Malicious Intent
Malicious Intent
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Malicious Intent

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Tales for every mood, running the gamut from quirky mystery to chilling horror.

 

When a lifelong friend betrays her trust once too often, an elderly woman plans the ultimate revenge.  A young drifter meets a famous artist, with grisly results.  A secretary's get-rich-quick scheme backfires.  Recently released from a mental institution, a woman fears she's hallucinating -- but is she?  A detective makes use of an unusual witness.  A woman escapes her coffin for a final farewell.  A real estate agent discovers why her best model home is scaring away customers.  Is a cache of confederate gold really haunted?

 

Often strange, sometimes startling, always unpredictable, these stories and more await you in Malicious Intent.

 

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"Chilling, thrilling . . . Fun!"

-- Mike Pettigraf, Paper Tiger Reviews

LanguageEnglish
Release dateMay 16, 2020
ISBN9780228614135
Malicious Intent
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Elizabeth Dearl

Elizabeth Dearl is a former Texas police officer who also owned a small bookstore for several years. Her short mysteries have appeared in Woman's World, Mystery Net, Mystery Time, Blue Murder, Futures, Britain's Fiction Feast and other magazines. Her story "The Way to a Man's Heart" won a Derringer Award, and "The Goodbye Ghoul" has been optioned for a short film. Elizabeth's romance fiction has been published in Woman's World, The Romantic Bower, and The Lover's Knot, to name a few. Writer On Line and InSinc (the Sisters in Crime Newsletter) have published her articles, and her fantasy/horror stories have appeared in Plot Magazine, Xoddity, and the Civil War ghost story anthology, DEAD PROMISES.Elizabeth's mystery novels, DIAMONDBACK (an EPPIE Award finalist which has recently been optioned for a feature film) and TWICE DEAD (2002 EPPIE Award winner for "best mystery"), are set in West Texas and feature amateur sleuth Taylor Madison, who is assisted in crime-solving by her ferret, Hazel. "Buyer's Remorse," a novella which also stars Taylor Madison, is included in BLOOD,THREAT and FEARS: Four Tales of Murder and Suspense (2002 EPPIE Award winner for "best anthology"). MALICIOUS INTENT (DiskUs Publishing) is a collection of Elizabeth's mystery/horror short stories.Elizabeth is a member of Sisters in Crime and The Short Mystery Fiction Society. She lives in the Houston area with her husband (a police detective) and two fur-children of the canine variety.

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