The Enemies Within Us – a Memoir
Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’,’ Douglas MacArthur
Your dad has cancer.” Ten-year-old Sharon hears these words. Not from her parents. They lied. Set mainly in 1950s and 1960s Toronto, this is Sharon’s story before and after Daddy’s dirty little secret surfaces. Before, she is Princess to her elderly father’s King. He protects her, a shy only child, from best friend, The Bully.
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Beyond Faith
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance, George Bernard Shaw
From the moment Dana Bowman sees the redheaded nun arguing with a man on the street and Bast Overture receives an email from Eli Foster asking him to find her birth parents, the twin PIs are thrust into a complex chain of events involving extortion, stalking, fire, vandalism, secret adoptions, a bank robbery, assault and murders – past and present.
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Beyond Blood
Dana Bowman has misgivings about starting the home-based Attic Investigative Agency with her fraternal twin, Bast Overture. Especially when the agency’s launch is preceded by a break and enter downstairs. Especially when David is kidnapped and his babysitter, Debbie Sangwell, is murdered during the agency’s launch. Further digging reveals more kidnappings, murders, fraud, and abortion. The twins’ investigation also leads to run-ins with police detective Donald Fielding, CKNT reporter Charles Haas, Dana’s ex-husband Ronald, Great Aunt Doris, and Mini-Mall merchants Lois and Ray Chalmers. Hovering in the background is the mysterious “Him”.
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Beyond the Tripping Point
Murder, attempted murder, sexual abuse, kidnapping, missing persons, vengeance, revenge, suicide, gambling, explosions, vehicular mishaps, indignity to a dead body and even love occur in these 13 stories (four of which introduce the fraternal twin PI duo of Dana Bowman and Bast Overture). All these happenings affect the characters in their life journey – sometimes damaging them, sometimes stalling them in limbo, but often forcing them to reach beyond the tripping point. To get there, the characters often do the unthinkable and absurd, often with unexpected results. The pace is always relenting in this collection by a master crafter of the genre.
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Sharon A’s Gigs
Sharon A. Crawford is available as a guest speaker to talk about crime writing and growing up in Toronto in late 1950s and 1960s.
Creating Crime between the (Book) Covers
Can you get away with murder, fraud, kidnapping and other heinous crimes? Yes, if you do it between the (book) covers and it is fiction. Join mystery author Sharon A. Crawford as she relates how the characters in her Beyond mystery books “commit” crimes and solve them too. Sharon will reveal where her story ideas originate and how she develops them with her characters and plots in Beyond the Tripping Point (Blue Denim Press, 2012), Beyond Blood (Blue Denim Press, 2014) and Beyond Faith (October 2017).
And as Dana Bowman
You never know when Dana Bowman will appear instead of Sharon. As a PI Dana likes to stick her nose into Sharon’s business.
Dana Bowman is available to do short and long skits about her life between the Beyond books covers. She is noted for dissing Sharon – when she can get away with it. Dana has teamed up with George Walton and other characters created by literary author Shane Joseph (Crossing Limbo, Morning Rain Publishing, 2017; In the Shadow of the Conquistador, Blue Denim Press, 2015) in a mad mix of reality and fiction.
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To book criminal talks, readings, skits, and workshops by Sharon A. Crawford, email Sharon at words@samcraw.com
For Sharon’s upcoming gigs (with or without Dana Bowman), read more here
