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Beyond A Doubt

by Nancy Cole Silverman

Beyond a Doubt

(A Carol Childs Mystery Book 2)

Cozy Mystery

Paperback: 244 pages

Publisher: Henery Press (July 14, 2015)

ISBN-13: 978-1941962732h

E-Book ASIN: B00W5VI838

When reporter Carol Childs is called to the scene of a body dump she has no idea she’s about to uncover a connection to a string of missing girls. Young, attractive women drawn to the glitz and glamour of Hollywood via an internet promise of stardom and romance have been disappearing. A judge’s daughter leaves behind a clue and a trip down Hollywood Boulevard’s Walk of Fame reveals a connection to a high powered real estate mogul and to a cartel targeting girls for human trafficking.

Old Hollywood has its secrets, its impersonators and backdoor entrances to old speakeasies and clubs where only those with the proper credentials can go. And when Carol Childs gets too close, she finds herself politically at odds with powers that threaten to undue her career and like the very girls she’s seeking, disappear.

Books in the Carol Childs Mystery Series:

SHADOW OF DOUBT (#1)
BEYOND A DOUBT (#2)
WITHOUT A DOUBT (#3) January 2016

Guest Post

From Thirty-Seconds to Fiction

By Nancy Cole Silverman

When I first started working in broadcast news I was amazed how little time was allotted for an actual news story. Most people who get their news from radio and TV don’t realize the stories are little more than thirty-second blurbs, sandwiched in between more anemic mini-blurbs about shootings and car high-jacking and then punctuated with bookend commercials selling diet drugs and sexual enhancement products. The public gets more information in a Viagra commercial than they do in a broadcast news piece about a murder.

I suppose that’s one of the reasons why I’m having such fun with the Carol Childs Mystery Series with Henery Press. When I retired to write fiction, writing about what happened behind mic in a news room seemed as important as what went out on the air, and frequently more interesting. It was the most natural thing in the world for me to do. I simply switched from writing for the air to writing for the blank page, with one major difference. I no longer had a crazed editor standing over my shoulder with a sickle pointing to a clock telling me to stick to the facts and hurry it up.

No longer was I a prisoner to budgets cuts and time restrictions or station policy that dictated the appropriateness of certain stories. My days of dealing with management regimes that refused to cover stories they didn’t think fit the station’s demographic were over.

Now I could pick and choose the stories I wanted. I could make-up a blend of characters, some real and some as wild as I could imagine. I could write about those over-sized personalities, those self-proclaimed gurus who editorialized about people and places they didn’t know like they were God’s gift to the airwaves. I could share inside secrets about darkened studios, stained with the smell of stale pizza and cigarette smoke, or on-air psychologist who dished out love advice on the air, while falling apart during a station break. I could dish stories about those talkie-fans that hung around outside the studio doors at night, and who became as much a part of the broadcast as the shows they listened to.

In my latest book, Beyond A Doubt, KCHC reporter Carol Childs is called to the scene of a body dump at five in the morning. When Carol realizes the body being pulled from the canyon in front of her is an innocent young girl – not much older than her own daughter – she’s not about to let station policy dictate her investigation.

I like Carol because she’s feisty. She’s a middle-aged mom, in a start-over career with a half-pint boss who views her as the world’s oldest cub reporter, and she’s determined to make it or break it. She’s loyal to friends and thrust into positions that challenge her loyalty and what she believes to be true. Work and family are a constant balancing act and she won’t settle for less than having it all.

This was a fun book to write on many levels, both for the mystery of the nightclub scene, old Hollywood and the romance. But perhaps best of all was because I was able to find in Carol a dogged determination that I believe woman backed into a corner possess. Rather than meeting brawn with brawn, Carol, faces brute force head on, using her feminine strengths, her brains, beauty and ingenuity to defeat her enemies.

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About This Author

Nancy Cole Silverman credits her twenty-five years in news and talk radio for helping her to develop an ear for storytelling. But it wasn’t until 2001 after she retired from news and copywriting that she was able to sit down and write fiction fulltime. Much of what Silverman writes about today she admits is pulled from events that were reported on from inside some of Los Angeles’ busiest newsrooms where she spent the bulk of her career. In the last ten years she has written numerous short stories and novelettes. Today Silverman lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Bruce and two standard poodles.

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Twitter: @NancyColeSilve1

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