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Welcome! Come on in and look around. Ellis writes crime fiction, usually suspense, with varying degrees of romance. After all,
love makes the world go round, but death stops it cold. These two elements seem essential to creating characters, conflict, and an
exciting plot. Besides, it’s what she likes to read. And how could you write something you wouldn’t want to read?
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Header photo by Andreiuc88
love makes the world go round, but death stops it cold. These two elements seem essential to creating characters, conflict, and an
exciting plot. Besides, it’s what she likes to read. And how could you write something you wouldn’t want to read?
Visit The Unpredictable Muse, Ellis's blog. Contact Ellis
Header photo by Andreiuc88
Time of Death
While visiting near Charleston, South Carolina, an artist draws
scenes of murder she can’t explain.
Alex. The artist. After a tree falls on her house, she joins her aunt on an
unspoiled island, but something wakens her family psychic streak. She draws
eerily accurate scenes of violence, but she knows nothing about them.
Connor. The prosecutor. He’s building a case against a drug lord one piece of evidence at a time. For him it’s personal, and he can’t risk a relationship with a witness, especially a psychic who’ll blow his case out of the water.
Rollins. The killer. He’s a cog in a much bigger wheel, and the witness to his acts of
violence threatens his operation and his life. He’ll do anything to see that doesn’t happen.
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scenes of murder she can’t explain.
Alex. The artist. After a tree falls on her house, she joins her aunt on an
unspoiled island, but something wakens her family psychic streak. She draws
eerily accurate scenes of violence, but she knows nothing about them.
Connor. The prosecutor. He’s building a case against a drug lord one piece of evidence at a time. For him it’s personal, and he can’t risk a relationship with a witness, especially a psychic who’ll blow his case out of the water.
Rollins. The killer. He’s a cog in a much bigger wheel, and the witness to his acts of
violence threatens his operation and his life. He’ll do anything to see that doesn’t happen.
Buy at Amazon Kindle. Read an excerpt
Cold Comfort
ISBN 978-1-59080-861-0
eBook: 978-1-59080-862-7
Echelon Press LLC
Cold Comfort is suspense with a love story, or maybe it could be
called an old-fashioned romantic suspense--a little sex, bad
language, and violence. It's available now in eBook and print from Echelon Press.
When Christmas shop owner Claire Spencer is attacked, she hires
burned out security consultant Ben Riley to find out why. Together they find
everything she believed is a lie, but the truth is . . . Cold Comfort.
Read an excerpt
Buy at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006HYGXGI
eBook: 978-1-59080-862-7
Echelon Press LLC
Cold Comfort is suspense with a love story, or maybe it could be
called an old-fashioned romantic suspense--a little sex, bad
language, and violence. It's available now in eBook and print from Echelon Press.
When Christmas shop owner Claire Spencer is attacked, she hires
burned out security consultant Ben Riley to find out why. Together they find
everything she believed is a lie, but the truth is . . . Cold Comfort.
Read an excerpt
Buy at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006HYGXGI
Haunting Refrain
ASIN: B00336F3QE
Parkwood Press
Haunting Refrain is suspense with a little romance and a touch of paranormal.
Photographer Kate McGuire is only looking for a little fun in her life when she
joins in a parapsychology experiment.
Witnessing a murder isn’t part of the plan. And when her eccentric friend Venice,
a complication all by herself, leaks the story to a hot-dog reporter, Kate’s life
turns upside down. The police don’t take her seriously, but the murderer does.
Read an excerpt
Buy at Amazon Kindle
Parkwood Press
Haunting Refrain is suspense with a little romance and a touch of paranormal.
Photographer Kate McGuire is only looking for a little fun in her life when she
joins in a parapsychology experiment.
Witnessing a murder isn’t part of the plan. And when her eccentric friend Venice,
a complication all by herself, leaks the story to a hot-dog reporter, Kate’s life
turns upside down. The police don’t take her seriously, but the murderer does.
Read an excerpt
Buy at Amazon Kindle
Tea in the Afternoon
Three Southern short
stories
Parkwood Press
eBook: B0068LVVBM
Southern fiction in three short stories: Miss Bliss Strikes a Blow, in which a lady makes her mark; Restitution, in which a father and daughter make up for past mistakes; and The New Car, in which Bertie Gilchrist aims to get the car
of his dreams. Restitution won the South Carolina Writers Conference Literary Award for Short Fiction.
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Parkwood Press
eBook: B0068LVVBM
Southern fiction in three short stories: Miss Bliss Strikes a Blow, in which a lady makes her mark; Restitution, in which a father and daughter make up for past mistakes; and The New Car, in which Bertie Gilchrist aims to get the car
of his dreams. Restitution won the South Carolina Writers Conference Literary Award for Short Fiction.
Read an excerpt
Amazon Kindle
The Peeper
by Jim Christopher and Ellis Vidler
ASIN: B005FU5HH6, Amazon Digital Services
ISBN-10: 1463770480, Createspace
The Peeper is the story of an unlikely hero, a lonely young man who makes "friends" through dorm windows under cover of darkness. While engaged in his own illegal activities, Elliott Cash sees more than he ever wanted to. The brutal murder of one of his friends. He struggles for a way to tell the police without going to jail-or worse. With no place to
turn, it's up to Elliott to stop the murderer. In a foolish act of heroism, he prevents another murder but draws the killer's attention to himself. When campus detectives Sam Fullerton and Kay Kendall meet Elliott, neither trusts the sweet but challenged young man's vague story. Then proof shatters their perceptions and their lives. The Peeper is a novel of suspense that takes place on a South Carolina college campus over twelve days.
Read an excerpt Amazon Kindle
ASIN: B005FU5HH6, Amazon Digital Services
ISBN-10: 1463770480, Createspace
The Peeper is the story of an unlikely hero, a lonely young man who makes "friends" through dorm windows under cover of darkness. While engaged in his own illegal activities, Elliott Cash sees more than he ever wanted to. The brutal murder of one of his friends. He struggles for a way to tell the police without going to jail-or worse. With no place to
turn, it's up to Elliott to stop the murderer. In a foolish act of heroism, he prevents another murder but draws the killer's attention to himself. When campus detectives Sam Fullerton and Kay Kendall meet Elliott, neither trusts the sweet but challenged young man's vague story. Then proof shatters their perceptions and their lives. The Peeper is a novel of suspense that takes place on a South Carolina college campus over twelve days.
Read an excerpt Amazon Kindle