Patricia Delaney eGumshoe Mystery Series
"A fine addition to the ranks of professional sleuths." Sue Grafton
(blurb on the original print edition)
First in series.
Second in series.
Third (and final) in series.
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Patricia Delaney, computer-whiz eGumshoe, combines old-fashioned detective work with newly emerging computer technology to investigate the disappearance of an employee, and $100,000.00, from Kauffman Real Estate and Auctioneering. Features a murder-by-hatpin!
Patricia's own steamy past resurfaces when she accepts Gigi Lafferty's odd request to investigate her own past... and Patricia discovers Gigi is actually her old pal Loretta King, once a stripper at a bar where Patricia was a bouncer.
Buy the eBook: Amazon Patricia is hired by opera superstar Carlotta Moses to investigate the claim of a sleazy tell-all TV program that Carlotta once had a child she abandoned. Buy the eBook: Amazon |
SOME BACKGROUND:
My first published novels were in my Patricia Delaney eGumshoe mystery series, published in the early 1990s in the U.S. by Fawcett Books (a division of Random House) and in the mid 1990s in the U.K. by Women's Press Ltd. In the early 1990s, personal computers were still cutting edge, and certainly a PI using computer research as part of her detective tool kit was rare in real life and, at that point, brand new in fiction.
Patricia Delaney was an 'electronic gumshoe,' or 'cyber PI,' or 'computer-whiz detective,' solved crimes--her nickname depending upon who was writing the marketing copy at any given time. The confusion is understandable (if now a bit quaint) because Patricia used computer databases and the World Wide Web to snoop around and solve crimes! OK, now that's eye-rollingly obvious--and who doesn't snoop on the Internet these days--but these novels were published in the early 1990s, when the Internet was newfangled rather than ubiquitous. Patricia was one of the first--if not THE first--detective in fiction to use computer database and Internet research to solve her cases. The novels were published in the U.S. by Fawcett Books, a division of Random House, and in the U.K. by Women's Press Ltd.; I've included a gallery of the original book covers at the bottom of this page simply because the art work was so lush.
It was fun then to push the edge with what Patricia could do with computer technology; now what she was able to do in the 1990s seems positively commonplace. Her stories hold up, though, as tales of passion, crime, and human strengths and weaknesses, and if read as historical (because by now, the 1990s definitely are historical, and in terms of technology, ancient), they also provide an interesting insight into the early years of computer technology as it began to make its way into our every day lives.
However, I promise that the novels are not filled with dull scenes described by "... and then she pressed Enter!" Patricia investigates intriguing cases brought to her by in-depth characters. She lives and works on the mean streets of Cincinnati, Ohio. (Oh, yes. Cincinnati has some pretty mean, and pretty interesting, streets.)
Originally published by Fawcett books (a division of Random House), these novels have now been reissued by Cornerstone Communications, with a new forward and a few changes to name the technology used (terms such as PC-286 were avoided at the time; now, since the novels are 'historical' why not use the terms?).
My first published novels were in my Patricia Delaney eGumshoe mystery series, published in the early 1990s in the U.S. by Fawcett Books (a division of Random House) and in the mid 1990s in the U.K. by Women's Press Ltd. In the early 1990s, personal computers were still cutting edge, and certainly a PI using computer research as part of her detective tool kit was rare in real life and, at that point, brand new in fiction.
Patricia Delaney was an 'electronic gumshoe,' or 'cyber PI,' or 'computer-whiz detective,' solved crimes--her nickname depending upon who was writing the marketing copy at any given time. The confusion is understandable (if now a bit quaint) because Patricia used computer databases and the World Wide Web to snoop around and solve crimes! OK, now that's eye-rollingly obvious--and who doesn't snoop on the Internet these days--but these novels were published in the early 1990s, when the Internet was newfangled rather than ubiquitous. Patricia was one of the first--if not THE first--detective in fiction to use computer database and Internet research to solve her cases. The novels were published in the U.S. by Fawcett Books, a division of Random House, and in the U.K. by Women's Press Ltd.; I've included a gallery of the original book covers at the bottom of this page simply because the art work was so lush.
It was fun then to push the edge with what Patricia could do with computer technology; now what she was able to do in the 1990s seems positively commonplace. Her stories hold up, though, as tales of passion, crime, and human strengths and weaknesses, and if read as historical (because by now, the 1990s definitely are historical, and in terms of technology, ancient), they also provide an interesting insight into the early years of computer technology as it began to make its way into our every day lives.
However, I promise that the novels are not filled with dull scenes described by "... and then she pressed Enter!" Patricia investigates intriguing cases brought to her by in-depth characters. She lives and works on the mean streets of Cincinnati, Ohio. (Oh, yes. Cincinnati has some pretty mean, and pretty interesting, streets.)
Originally published by Fawcett books (a division of Random House), these novels have now been reissued by Cornerstone Communications, with a new forward and a few changes to name the technology used (terms such as PC-286 were avoided at the time; now, since the novels are 'historical' why not use the terms?).