Elaine Orr - Jolie Gentil 05 - Trouble on the Doorstep (22 page)

Elaine L. Orr has written fiction and nonfiction for many years and recently introduced the Jolie Gentil cozy mystery series. She began writing plays and novellas and graduated to longer fiction by the mid-1990s.
Biding Time
, was one of five finalists in the National Press Club’s first fiction contest, in 1993. She is a regular attendee at conferences such as Muncie’s Midwest Writers Workshop and Magna Cum Murder, and does presentations on topics such as electronic publishing and other writing-related topics. She has taken writing courses at the Writer’s Center of Bethesda, Maryland, Georgetown University’s School of Continuing Education, the University of Maryland, and the Iowa Summer Writing Festival at the University of Iowa. Her nonfiction includes material on caring for aging parents and carefully researched local and family history books. Elaine grew up in Maryland and moved to the Midwest in 1994.

Books and novellas by Elaine Orr

The Jolie Gentil Series

Appraisal for M
urder
(First of the series)

Rekindling Motives
(Second of the series)

When the Carny Comes to Town
(Third of the series)

Any Port in a Storm
(Fourth of the series)

Trouble on the Doorstep
(Fifth of the series)

Also by Elaine Orr

Biding Time
(young adult
, novella)

Secrets of the Gap
(mystery with a touch of romance)

Monett
, a pictorial local history, Arcadia Publishing

Orr, Campbell, Mitchell, and Shirley Families: Descendants of Paul Orr and Isabelle Boyd in Ireland to America
, 2,400 indexed names and places  (
Only in paperback
)

Links to all Books

http://elaineorr.blogspot.com/p/links-to-all-books.html

Many books are in large print, and some have audio versions.