Mystery Women Authors
Deborah
Biography
Macavity Award-winner Deborah Adams' first novel, All the Great Pretenders, was nominated for the Agatha Award in 1993. Since that time, Adams has earned a reputation among readers, critics, and booksellers as a talented author who consistently produces a more compelling story with each new novel.
A seventh-generation Tennessean, Adams brings to her work an appreciation for the lore and traditions of the South. Combining her sharply perceptive observations of human nature with a mature and biting wit, she creates satirical novels that gently tweak the reader's conscience while mercilessly tickling the funny bone.
In addition to writing, Adams is actively involved with a domestic violence prevention organization. In 1995, she competed in her first horseback endurance race, completing the course under particularly grueling conditions (i.e. the fringes of a hurricane). She did not finish in last place.
Adams also teaches online courses through Nashville State Technical Institute--Writing the Mystery Novel, Writing Short Stories, and Tarot for Beginners.
(Bio from Deborah Adams'
Deborah Adams is a member of the Teri Holbrook
Books
Jesus Creek Mysteries (Not a character - a town)
All the Great Pretenders
Twin Elms innkeeper Kate Yancy was already busy managing a beauty-queen chambermaid, a religious-fanatic cook, and a handful of eccentric guests. But with the disappearance of a rich girl, the inn at Jesus Creek, Tennessee, becomes chaotic when a psychic arrives--along with a yardful of reporters. (From Amazon.com synopsis)
Nominated for the Agatha Award 1993
Published Ballantine Books 1992
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All the Crazy Winters
Foul play returns to Jesus Creek, Tennessee, "the murder capital of the South," in the second offbeat thriller from the author of All the Great Pretenders. Delia Cannon suspects there's a connection between the burning of an antebellum house and the murder of a soft-hearted librarian. What she doesn't suspect is that she already knows too much for her own good. (From Amazon.com synopsis)
Published Ballantine Books 1992
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All the Dark Disguises
Third in the highly successful series--set in Jesus Creek, Tennessee--by the author of All the Crazy Winters. Waitress, poet, and purveyor of cosmetics, Kay Martin reluctantly adds sleuth to her list of professions, when a serial killer stalks Jesus Creek--and targets her as his next victim. (From Amazon.com synopsis)
Published Ballantine Books 1993
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All the Hungry Mothers
Aliens . . . paranoid old ladies . . . demon possession . . . haunted houses . . . you name it. Fledgling nanny Janet Ayres can't quite believe the nutty Southern enclave of Jesus Creek, Tennessee, where she's come to work. The only island of sanity is the happy home next door--until pure hell comes to roost even there. Fourth in the eccentric Southern Jesus Creek mystery series. (From Amazon.com synopsis)
Published Ballantine Books 1994 (reprint 1999)
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All the Deadly Beloved
The fifth fiendishly funny whodunit set in the eccentric Southern community of Jesus Creek by the Agatha Award-winning nominated author. Murder at the Jesus Creek nursing home brings Police Chief Reb Gassler on the run--to find out who nursed a deadly grudge against the town's favorite R.N. (From Amazon.com synopsis)
Published Ballantine Books 1995
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All the Blood Relations
When the most successful businesswoman in Jesus Creek is murdered during a tea room opening, policewoman Kay Martin finds a host of suspects and is frustrated by her lack of professional support. (From Amazon.com synopsis)
Published Ballantine Books 1997
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All the Dirty Cowards
Dan McClain bought the old Vickers farm hoping to find a peaceful retreat in Jesus Creek, Tennessee, but the town�s unique reality hits home when skeletons start popping up in McClain�s yard, followed by the murder of a beloved local resident. Are the crimes connected?
Amateur sleuth and genealogist Delia Cannon is determined to unearth the answer. As ghostly remnants of a long ago murder linger in the shadow of present day tragedy, Delia�s passion for truth draws the attention of a killer who isn�t about to let a decades-old crime come to light. (From Amazon.com synopsis)
Published Ballantine Books 2000
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Short Stories
Cast Your Fate to The Wind in MALICEDOMESTIC III ed Nancy Pickard, 1994
Hagseed in HOMEWORKS, 1996
All The Ice-Cold Blood in MURDEROUSINTENT MYSTERY MAGAZINE, Jan, 1996
Good Intentions in MURDEROUSINTENT MYSTERY MAGAZINE, Jan 1997
They Only Kill Their Asters in FUNNYBONES, ed Joan Hess ,July 1997
The Cadaver Waltzed at Noon in MURDER,THEY WROTE II ed Elizabeth Foxwell, forthcoming 1998
Non-fiction works
Trailblazers, Pathfinders, and Gutsy Womenin MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA YEARBOOK
The Mysterious Destiny of Daryl Dean Jamesin THE USUAL SUSPECTS
A Matter of Pedigree: the Southern regionalmystery as written by women in THE FINE ART OF MURDER II, ed Jan Grape andDean James, 1997
Web site address
http://members.aol.com/dkadams/index.htm
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