"E. Joan Sims has the uncanny ability to warm a reader's soul with the depth of her style and characters while simultaneously prickling nerves with disturbing precision. Her earlier Paisley Sterling mysteries received well-earned praise and left fans wanting more. In THE PAPER DETECTIVE, Sims takes us deeper into her world and satisfies on every level." -- Mike Stewart, Author of A CLEAN KILL, DOG ISLAND, and SINS OF THE BROTHER

Mystery novelist Paisley Sterling's daughter got engaged to the young doctor who came to town from the CDC to investigate a medical mystery -- and now he's accused of rape and murder Paisley must clear his name before the lynch mob finds him. What she discovers as she investigates is truly horrifying -- a terror that threatens not just her daughter's fiance, not just their rural Kentucky community, but ultimately the future of the human species. This tale of bioterror in the American heartland is E. Joan Sims's breakout book, and in this year of war and terror, it's as timely as it is riveting.

When Paisley Sterling goes home to Kentucky for a funeral, she can't guess what awaits--nothing she ever lived through prepared her for murder. Unmasking a real killer, she discovers that danger gives her new reason to treasure her family.

A KILLER'S ON THE LOOSE!

Like any successful writer, Paisley had the help of generous friends and colleagues on the way up. Now, insists her mother, it's her turn to come to the aid of a fledgling novelist.

But how can reading a manuscript open the book to murder, involving Paisley in a plot to blackmail some of the leading citizens of her beloved Rowan Springs? Solving this crime brings danger very close to home-and someone Paisley holds dear may not survive.

Watch for the other novels in this series:

Cemetery Silk
The Plague Doctor
The Paper Detective
The Cradle Robber
The Sow's Ear

A KILLER'S ON THE LOOSE!

Life's a picnic for Paisley Sterling-until a tornado cuts a swath through the charming little town of Rowan Springs, Kentucky-and the home she shares with her mother and daughter on Meadowdale Farm.

Paisley struggles to restore order to her life, but fate intervenes, and before long she finds herself caught up in an international mystery of truly evil proportions-involving kidnapping, murder, and baby trafficking!

Watch for the other novels in this series:

Cemetery Silk
The Plague Doctor
The Paper Detective
The Poisoned Pen
The Sow's Ear

ALL PUBLISHED BY WILDSIDE PRESS

E. JOAN SIMS is the author of six delightful mysteries featuring crime writer Paisley Sterling. She also works in disease surveillance at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and is planning many new adventures for her popular character.

Paisley Sterling has no idea of the trouble she's getting into when she and her teenaged daughter are called home for a family funeral. Paisley's mother, the elegant and stylish Anna Howard Sterling is delighted when they decide to extend their visit after Paisley's New York townhouse is rented out from under her. Things are going well until Anna discovers she has been cheated out of a sizable inheritance. Convinced that her favorite cousin was murdered, she decides to seek revenge by persuading Paisley to assume the persona of the intrepid "Leonard Paisley, hard-boiled detective" and write a fictitious expose of the crime. "Leonard's" novel is a huge success and life on Meadowdale Farm couldn't be happier until the thinly veiled accusations in the book provoke a lawsuit. Faced with financial ruin, mother, daughter and granddaughter fight to protect the home that has been in their family for generations by unmasking the real killer . . .

Mystery novelist, Paisley Sterling, is happier than she ever dreamed. As successful writer she is free to return to her mother's farm in Kentucky where she trades in her panty hose and high-heeled shoes for jeans and loafers. Her only problem is the pen name of Leonard Paisley that her agent encourages her to assume because a detective novel will sell better if it's written by a man. Unfortunately Paisley finds out that every paradise has its snake when her beautiful daughter, Cassie falls, in love with a young epidemiologist from the Centers for Disease Control. Dr. Ethan McEnery has come to Rowan Springs to investigate a medical mystery. When he is unexpectedly arrested for rape and murder, Ethan turns to Paisley - and Leonard for help. What follows is a roller coaster ride of slapstick comedy and nail-biting suspense as Paisley, her daughter, and her mother, Anna, search for clues to the crime and the mysterious deaths that brought the CDC to Rowan Springs in the first place. become the ultimate judge of who will live and who will die, has unleashed a dangerous and deadly pathogen that may prove impossible for even the most advanced medical science to contain ...

Mystery novelist Paisley Sterling takes time off to enjoy the holidays only to be interrupted by her agent. Seems like Leonard Paisley, the fictitious detective who is supposed to be writing her mystery novels, is required to make a personal appearance. Paisley would love to tell the world that Leonard is a fake and she does all the hard work, but her agent insists they keep up with the sham until her career is assured. Leonard has to be found. Paisley seeks the advice of her proper southern belle mother and hip college age daughter, and then goes out in search of the man she believes will be the perfect Leonard. When a snow storm gets in the way, she finds herself marooned in a remote log cabin with a man who is perfect in many ways - something Paisley didn't exactly expect. Burt Atkins reluctantly agrees to be Leonard for a day and the command performance goes off without a hitch - until Burt becomes a target for murder. Determined to discover why someone would want to kill Leonard - or Burt, Paisley begins to unravel yet another strange puzzle and ends up facing one of the deadliest foes she has ever encountered.