The Magic of Murder (24 page)

About the author

Formerly a Manhattan entertainment attorney and a contributing editor to the quarterly art magazine SunStorm Fine Arts, Susan Lynn Solomon now lives in Niagara Falls, New York, where she is in charge of legal and financial affairs for a management consulting firm.

After moving to Niagara Falls she became a member of the Just Buffalo Literary Center’s Writers Critique Group, and turned her attention to writing fiction. Since 2009, a number of her short stories have appeared in literary journals, including,
Abigail Bender
(awarded an Honorable Mention in a Writer’s Journal short romance competition),
Witches Gumbo
,
Ginger Man
,
The Memory Tree
,
Elvira
,
Second Hand
,
Sabbath
(nominated for
2013 Best of the Net
by the editor of
Prick of the Spindle
), and
Kaddish
.

Her latest short stories are,
Yesterday’s Wings
, about a
woman searching for the courage of her past, which
appears in the October 2015 edition of,
Imitation Fruit
; and
Captive Soul
, which is included in Solstice Publishing’s Halloween anthology,
Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep
.

The Magic of Murder
is Susan Lynn Solomon’s first published novel.

Acknowledgements
:

It has often been said that writing is a lonely profession. I have found this not always to be the case. My writing has been enlivened by a wonderful and talented group of people. In this regard, I wish to acknowledge Solstice Publishing’s Mel Massey, my Editor-in Chief, who believed in this story, and the marvelous editor, Fred Crook, who found and graciously corrected so many mistakes. I also need to acknowledge those who helped shape my writing: the Edgar Award winning author, Gary Earl Ross, moderator of the Just Buffalo Literary Center’s Writer’s Critique Group, who challenged me to write a murder mystery, then helped edit the story (and pounded into my head that a rifle is not merely referred to as a gun). I must also acknowledge the talented writers who are members of this group, and its former moderator, Jerome Gentes, all of whom helped shape my sense of metaphor and make my stories cohesive. Finally, I acknowledge Victor Forbes, editor of SunStorm Fine Arts, who allowed me the freedom to write creatively.