A Bad Week In Hollister: A Sheriff Cowboy Berkson Mystery Novel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780996619523)

About the Author I was born in Idaho in 1939. My father's job demanded that we frequently move so, by the age of ten, I had lived in Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Michigan and, finally Wisconsin. I lived in Wisconsin for the next eight years, until I graduated from school. I am the proud mother of three wonderful sons and two fantastic grandsons. I worked as an accountant for most of my life. Two years before I retired, I did a complete switch in careers and managed two Curves fitness facilities in Illinois. I retired in 2002 and moved to Branson, MO. In 2012, I moved to Indiana to be closer to my family and have lived in Highland for the past three and a half years. I enjoy a good laugh and figure it's my sense of humor that has kept me going when times were tough. Reading has always been one of my passions and I still read a couple of books a week. In 2003 I started designing websites for a few clubs and I maintain them in my spare time. I also designed my own site, so please feel free to visit. Most of my life I have written short stories and poems for amusement. I wrote Blueberries and Bears and My Brother's Shoes, a book about growing up in the forties and fifties. After I self-published it and gave it to friends and family to read, they encouraged me to get serious about my writing. Crossing Sydney was my first novel and it was published in July, 2015. It has received outstanding reviews. A sequence to this book is being considered at this time. Don't Smother Your Mother was my second book, and I really had fun writing it. Although, it's a mystery, I threw humor into it, and made it an easy to read whodunit. Sylvia Toppers picks up where this one leaves off, with another mystery for Sheriff "Cowboy" Berkson to solve. I never thought that, at the age of 76, I would become an author. I certainly am enjoying my retirement knowing, that when I get up each morning, I have something to look forward to. www.susanlpare.com.