Amanda Brenner

Amanda Brenner is a native Midwesterner who has traveled extensively throughout the United States, and who now lives quietly with her husband and an assortment of wildlife visitors to their urban home. Her interest in writing began at an early age when westerns were popular attractions at the local theater. It seemed only natural that her first novel, Trail of Vengeance, should be in that genre. After finishing a second western, Shadow of the Rope, she began to explore a new direction, completing three contemporary mysteries involving private investigator Sid Langdon, a self-doubting magnet for offbeat clients and hapless scenarios, the latest being The Mystery of the Nourdon Blue. Amanda enjoys learning from the books she reads, a characteristic reflected in the research she includes in her own works. You are welcome to visit her website: http://pillaredroses.webs.com Novels by Amanda Brenner: Tainted Legacy: A corpse and a million dollars in missing jewels--and Sid Langdon is tapped to find the answers by the very man who may be responsible for both! It's Sid's first case--it might well be his last! http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006ON3M5W The Cottage by the Lake: Sid Langdon is hired by a wealthy gentleman to investigate mysterious occurrences at his parents' lakeside estate. The man considers the incidents the work of pranksters trading on a local legend of a Confederate officer whose ghost prowls the surrounding woods. But when the body of his client's disabled father is found floating beside the boat dock, his skull fractured, possibly by the blunt edge of a sword, Sid suspects it was no accident and that his quarry is no ghost. Dogged by guilt that his initial skepticism may have contributed to the man's death, Sid is determined to bring the killer in. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006P3QBFE The Mystery of the Nourdon Blue: Two men are obsessed with a legendary jewel that vanished during the Crimean War. Now one of them is missing, and Sid Langdon is hired to find him. When the trail goes cold, Sid decides to trace the stone instead, and uncovers a murky world of murderous intrigue along the trail to the Nourdon Blue. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00580V82Q Trail of Vengeance: Hired gun Charlie Cross vows vengeance on the posse that lynched his kid brother, but he never figured a drifter would risk his life to avenge a friend. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006NNZBGQ Shadow of the Rope: When the man she loved was cruelly gunned down, Charlotte Beckford swore she would see his murderer hang. But Bowie Rayburn laughed at her threat as he rode away unconcerned. After all, he thought, what could she do--she was just a girl. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006571LN2 While My Love Sleeps: When aristocratic Karl, Graf von Abensberg, heir to a centuries-old title, married commoner Leda Devoe, he told her he needed her strength, her courage, and her love. Soon all three are tested when Karl is injured in an explosion that leaves him in a deep coma, and Leda is all that stands between him and those who would rob him of his property, his fortune, and his very life. Will her courage and determination be enough to save the man she loves? They will have to be, for in her heart of hearts, Leda knows that if her beautiful husband's life is over, then so is her own. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DF9E6AS