Interview with mystery author Nancy Herriman ~ win a copy of her book

Today Suspense Sisters is happy to welcome mystery author Nancy Herriman with her brand new book, No Justice for the Deceived from Berkley, a Mystery of Old San Francisco. 

First let's hear a bit about the story:

At an opulent masquerade ball no one is who they’re pretending to be, but when the affair ends in death, Nick and Celia will have to unmask a killer . . .Word of an upcoming engagement that will join two prominent families has tongues wagging among San Francisco society, but Celia worries the bride-to-be may be making a serious mistake. Her intended, a controlling man and a known womanizer, has recently been linked to a violent attack on a former mistress. When a hapless maid is poisoned at the party where the engagement was to be announced, Celia discovers that the fiancé was the intended victim.

Detective Nick Greaves is called to the scene to investigate the grim death and learns once again that Celia has already unearthed valuable clues. Teaming up to uncover the would-be murderer, they soon learn that any number of people had reason to do away with the man. Then another young woman is found dead, and Celia realizes that cornering the killer may expose a cruel truth at the heart of a wealthy family’s deceptions .

Tell us about your inspiration for this story: On October 8, 1867, a man was sitting outside a building in downtown San Francisco, waiting for a friend. A person dressed as a boy walked past, asked him his name, and upon receiving it tossed acid on the fellow, scarring him and leaving him blind in one eye. A woman the man had married but then shortly thereafter discarded had paid the ‘boy’ to commit the assault. A case of revenge. In the following months, several people decided to copy the crime. Reading about these events gave me the idea for the background story in my newest Mystery of Old San Francisco novel, No Justice for the Deceived. What might happen as a result of such a terrible act? How might the person attacked respond? With their own revenge? Questions I thought were worth answering.

Let's hear a bit more about this author:

Nancy Herriman has fronted a cover band, acted on stage, and worked in the tech industry as an engineer. Writing is her current and most long-lasting passion. She is the author of the Mysteries of Old San Francisco, the Bess Ellyott Mysteries, and several stand-alone novels. A winner of the Daphne du Maurier Award, when not writing, she enjoys singing, gabbing about writing, and eating dark chocolate. Find more at www.nancyherriman.com.

Leave Nancy a comment for a chance to win a copy of NO JUSTICE FOR THE DECEIVED. Print copies to USA readers only. You must leave an email address. Drawing in one week.

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Have a great week of reading!  Mary Ellis, Suspense Sisters