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Death of a Sculptor in Hue, Shape and Color
by M.C.V. Egan
Genre: Suburban Women's Fiction
Color coded love stories and revealing female anatomies lead to the murder of world renowned sculptor,
Bruce Jones.
In life, the artist loved women, almost as much as women loved him. Adored for his art and colorful
personality, Bruce is mourned by the world at large. The tale is launched with the multifaceted
perspectives of four ex-wives, the current wife, and his new love interest and their children.
Mary , Bruce’s wealthy first love, is always in perfect pink; the color of love. Mother of Clair the famous
actress and Aaron the corporate lawyer.
Leslie The Second’s color is yellow for her sunny nature as much as for her fears and insecurities. Her
only son Bobby is vulnerable and lost. Mourning his father’s death, he finds himself.
Petra The Third, is outstanding in orange, representing not only her native Holland but also her love of the
fruit. Cherished her freedom and had no children of her own.
Toni The Fourth is a vibrant passionate Italian red and part of the eventual glue that creates and solidifies
this dysfunctional Jones family. Her teenage daughters Tina and Isa are as different as night and day.
Brooke The Fifth a gold-digger. Green, her color, reflects the color of money and envy. Her young son’s
Kyle and Caleb are too young to understand why their world has been turned upside-down.
Mara, as blue as the ocean was the last woman to steal Bruce’s heart. Mother to newborn Baby Peter is
the unexpected gift and surprise.
Bruce Jones’ eight children speak out, too. They are as distinctive as the women he loved, their mothers.
Loose ends are tied up by the insights of Sylvia, Aaron’s wife and a trusted keeper of secrets; Scott, the
private investigator and family friend; Nona, the quintessential grandmother everyone loves but to whom
few are truly related; and Detective Jim Miller who will not rest until he discovers Bruce Jones’
murderer.
A word, a single word defines a moment for Anne. She needs to find a new one when her spouse, Frank,
leaves her at the age of forty-seven, coming out of the closet literally in a closet.
She finds herself back in her hometown of Skvallerby, Connecticut among her high school friends which
she had left in her past.
An inheritance from a frenemy leaves her with the means to meddle and spy on the lives of mutual
acquaintances.
In an attempt to run from her reality Anne becomes engrossed in a game of fun and flirtation with her
friend and fellow sufferer Connie.
Their fun games turn into a deadly reality. It is no longer a game. Life, death and not even a defining
word can stop the reality of manipulation.
On August 15th, 1939, an English passenger plane from British Airways Ltd. crashed in Danish waters
between the towns of Nykøbing Falster and Vordingborg. There were five casualties reported and one
survivor. Just two weeks before, Hitler invaded Poland. With the world at the brink of war, the manner in
which this incident was investigated left much open to doubt. The jurisdiction battle between the two
towns and the newly formed Danish secret police created an atmosphere of intrigue and distrust. The
Bridge of Deaths is a love story and a mystery. Fictional characters travel through the world of past life
regressions and information acquired from psychics as well as archives and historical sources to solve
"one of those mysteries that never get solved." Based on true events and real people, The Bridge of
Deaths is the culmination of 18 years of sifting through conventional and unconventional sources in
Denmark, England, Mexico and the United States. The story finds a way to help the reader feel that s/he is
also sifting through data and forming their own conclusions. Cross The Bridge of Deaths into 1939, and
dive into cold Danish waters to uncover the secrets of the G-AESY.
On August 15th, 1939, an English passenger plane from British Airways Ltd. crashed in Danish waters
between the towns of Nykøbing Falster and Vordingborg. There were five casualties reported and one
survivor. Just two weeks before, Hitler invaded Poland. With the world at the brink of war, the manner in
which this incident was investigated left much open to doubt. The jurisdiction battle between the two
towns and the newly formed Danish secret police created an atmosphere of intrigue and distrust. The
Bridge of Deaths is a love story and a mystery. Fictional characters travel through the world of past life
regressions and information acquired from psychics as well as archives and historical sources to solve
"one of those mysteries that never get solved." Based on true events and real people, The Bridge of
Deaths is the culmination of 18 years of sifting through conventional and unconventional sources in
Denmark, England, Mexico and the United States. The story finds a way to help the reader feel that s/he is
also sifting through data and forming their own conclusions. Cross The Bridge of Deaths into 1939, and
dive into cold Danish waters to uncover the secrets of the G-AESY.
M.C.V. Egan is the pen name chosen by Maria Catalina Vergara Egan. Catalina is originally from Mexico
City, Mexico. Catalina has lived in various countries and is fluent in four languages; Spanish, English,
French and Swedish.
Her first book The Bridge of Deaths revolves around her maternal grandfather's death in 1939. A true-life
pre-WWII event. It has over 200 footnotes with the resources of her extensive search through Archival
materials as well as the use of psychometry and past life regressions. It is more fact than fiction.
The revised edition of The Bridge of Deaths; A love Story and a Mystery focuses on the story-line as
opposed to fact, but all footnotes and facts are available through the website for any curious minds. http://www.thebridgeofdeaths.com
Defined by Others taps into the dark quirky side found even in the best of people. With the 2012
American elections as a backdrop and the fearless reassurance that the world might end on December 12,
2012, as predicted by the Mayan Calendar.
Death of a Sculptor; in Hue, Shape, and Color is a novella written in sixteen different voices. It is a
murder mystery. She is currently working on a sequel; Bruce (title subject to change).
M.C.V. Egan lives and works in South Florida. She loves cooking and crafting. She is married and has a
son. Aside from writing Astrology is one of her passions and careers she pursues.
To
keep readers interested, as writers, we always need to move a story
forward. We need conflict, twists, and turns and the unlikely but not
impossible to surprise our readers. I am very fortunate to live in
South Florida, where it is said we boast more writers/authors per
capita than anywhere else in the U.S.A. Big names are very generous
with their techniques and knowledge, and I have had the privilege and
pleasure to attend numerous workshops on a wide variety of subjects.
To
me, the biggest hurdle is remembering that balance between love and
hate. The characters I grow fond of, I love, well, it is hard to hurt
them. If I give them an easy-breezy life, I will bore my readers to
death; well not death, but to slam my book shut! And my villains,
those icky guys that we hope in real life we never encounter, well we
cannot hate the, not wholly, we have to give them qualities that make
them well rounded and remember that even the most horrid villains had
a mother who loved them.
So,
when I am in a mischievous mood, I write a list of terrible things
that could happen to a character I love. It was hard to hurt one of
my main characters in Defined
by Others,
I mean, they had suffered enough in life. But I wrote my list… and
even considered killing her, but I simply could not say goodbye.
The
same with villains, in Death
of a Sculptor,
my killer is logical, although most cannot guess who did it. I wanted
to give it a more evil nuance but remembered that balance, your
villain needs qualities to keep the reader invested.
In
The
Bridge of Deaths,
as it is far more fact than fiction, I stated with five very real
corpses. One of whom was my maternal grandfather, a man I never knew
but always missed; I added love to the story, the passionate love
between Bill and Maggie, as well as the love and curiosity of
uncovering the past and uncovering truths.
That
was a love I understand well; every time I had the time and money, I
traveled to locations where I could research dusty old archives. I am
also very blessed to have a good marriage and know love, so Bill and
Maggie were a smooth flow.
Happy
reading, and thank you for welcoming me to your blog.
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