10 Days Till Release of A Deed of Dreadful Note
NEW VIDEO! The countdown to the release of my newest novel begins today! We’re only 10 days away from the release of A Deed of Dreadful Note, first in the Anna Katharine Green Mysteries. This book is the first and only historical fiction ever written featuring the Mother of Detective Fiction!
In this video, I share all the reasons why I think of Anna Katharine Green as my “sister from another century.” We have so much in common it’s crazy!
Read the original post that inspired this video here: Anna Katharine Green is my sister from another century.

A Deed of Dreadful Note
AVAILABLE IN JUST 10 DAYS—Releasing May 30!!!
Fifteen years before Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published A Study in Scarlet, Anna Katharine Green began writing The Leavenworth Case, inspiring the creation of detectives like Sherlock, Poirot, and Wimsey, as well as almost every device and convention we now recognize as standard in detective mystery fiction.
When her father’s client is found murdered, Anna takes up the call to prove innocent the young girl accused of the murder. The investigation inspires many of the events, characters, and descriptions that would later be published in her debut novel.
A love letter to mystery and writing itself, A Deed of Dreadful Note is an homage and reintroduction to an author who was the Agatha Christie of her time but a forgotten female today.
This book is a fictionalized account of how Anna Katharine Green’s first novel may have come to be…
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Join me for my LIVE Q&A on Release Day May 30th at 6:00pm MST!
—Learn more about Anna Katharine Green—
Watch my YouTube Channel playlist all about Anna Katharine Green.
Head here for a complete timeline of Anna Katharine Green and the History of Mystery Fiction.
November 11th is Anna Katharine Green’s birthday! Read this post to learn more about her impact on mystery fiction.
Find my full review, great quotes, and learn how Anna Katharine Green inspired Agatha Christie here from when I re-read The Clocks, and began to really research who this Green woman was.
Find my full review and great quotes here from the first time I read The Leavenworth Case.
Find my full review and great quotes here from the first time I read That Affair Next Door, the first Miss Butterworth case.
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