DEATH IN REEL TIME

In this Family History mystery, a professional genealogist realizes the family history she’s tracing may be repeating itself after her client’s son-in-law turns up dead.

When genealogist duo Sophreena McClure and Esme Sabatier are hired to trace the family tree of Olivia Clement, they think the job will be an easy one. But then Olivia’s son-in-law is murdered. As the investigation begins, an ill wind of suspicion sweeps through the small town of Morningside, North Carolina. And as Sophreena and Esme delve into Olivia’s family history to find out more about her father’s disappearance back in the 1940s, they discover that the events of the past are proving to shed light on the present...

The author has created fresh, interesting main characters, and the secondary characters who form the scrapbooking club become the reader's friends, too. With so many knitting, quilting, and food-related cozies, this family history mystery brings a new hobby to the popular genre.

Brynn Bonner grew up in Alabama and lives in North Carolina. She was a working journalist, a high school teacher, a university instructor, and a full-time mother before beginning to write fiction. Both her literary fiction and mysteries frequently reflect the landscapes and the genuine people of her southern heritage—with an abiding emphasis on characters and their relationships to one another and to their place in the world. She has penned six novels writing as Ellen Harris. Her short stories have been featured in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Futures, Now and Then, Crossroads, and other publications.