Created by Ed Lynskey
Pseudonyms include Lyn Key
(1956–)
STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSE’S MOUTH DEPARTMENT:
SHARON KNOWLES is early-mid 30s, single, brunette, and attractive. She lives in a brick bungalow located in Bay City, Virginia, a fictitious suburb just outside of Washington, DC. Her godfather, Captain MacSorley, runs the city’s police department. Her boyfriend, Zelmo Zuggs, is a NASCAR fan and up for any thing fun. Sharon graduated from the Virginia State Police Academy but was snapped up by MacSorley to come and work for him. Her experience working in a community outreach program for youth street gangs has had mixed results.
After seven years as a Homicide detective, Sharon resigned from the police force and established her own PI firm but consults for the city and MacSorley. She remains friends with the city’s ME, Dr. Barbara Canseco. Her office a second-story space over a rental storage facility run by a man named Butcher. In exchange for her security services, he lets her use the office rent free. Despite long hours and constant hustling for business, Sharon remains strapped. Her mentally disturbed father died in a warehouse fire. Her mother lives in a distant city.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Astoundingly prolific, American writer Ed Lynskey‘s work, mostly crime fiction of one sort or another, has appeared in numerous anthologies, magazines and e-zines, including Plots With Guns, Futures, Judas, Detective Mystery Stories, 3rdDegree, Mississippi Review, Hard Luck Stories and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. In his past, Ed has worked at one time or another as a gunsmith, fry cook, political campaign worker, technical writer, support engineer, and a sash and door millworker, as well as an occasional book reviewer for The New York Times and The Washington Post. He grew up in rural Virginia and has traveled to Toronto, Bermuda, Frankfurt, Ankara, and Mexico City. Today, he lives and works in “the gray swirls of suburbia” surrounding Washington, DC.
His most popular character by far is Frank Johnson, a Virginia private eye, whose first novel, The Dirt-Brown Derby, was published in 2006. A frightening tsunami of stories and novels have since followed. He has since also written several standalones, running the gamut from horror to cozies in such books as Lake Charles, Quiet Anchorage and Ask the Dice. But that’s not all! Ed has written a multitude of other series, featuring such diverse characters as the Tuxedo Cat, Isabel and Alma Trumbo, Juno Patchen, Piper and Bill Robin, Hope Jones and… well, you get the idea.
UNDER OATH
- “… smoothly-written.”
— James Sallis
SHORT STORIES
- “Teeth of the Hydra.” (February 2002, Orchard Press Mysteries)
- “Nine Green Fingers” (Fall 2002, Hard Luck Stories Ezine)
- “The Cedar Abbey” (October 2002, New Mystery Reader Magazine)
- “The Metal Detector” (October 2002, Detective Mystery Stories)
- “The Liars Will Fall First.” (November 2002, HandHeldCrime)
- “Watching the Detectives.” (November 2002, Detective Mystery Stories)
- “Rock Creek Park.” (December 2002, Detective Mystery Stories)
- “Blood Along the Tracks.” “Winter 2002, Judas Ezine)
- “Polcum’s Pulpit.” (January 2003, New Mystery Reader Magazine)
- “Murder in Bamboo Park.” (January 2003, Detective Mystery Stories)
- “Double Dipper” (June 2003, New Mystery Reader Magazine)
- “Faux Graffiti.” (July 2003, Detective Mystery Stories)
- “Karate Joe.” (October 2003, Detective Mystery Stories)
- “Bait” (2003, Bullet Points Anthology)
- “Right on the Money” (December 2003, EWG Presents Without A Clue)
- “Carrot Crazy” (January 2004, Vermont Ink)
- “Collection Agency” (March 2004, Without a Clue)
- “Shoot and Scoot” (tentatively scheduled for February 2004, EWG Presents Without A Clue)
- “Deep Six” (November 2004, Detective Mystery Stories)
- “Busted!”” (November 2004, Detective Mystery Stories)
- “Mr. Weems’ Dog” (2004, A Clear Path to Cross)
A prequel with Sharon as a university student, interning at the Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department. - “See You in September” (2004, A Clear Path to Cross)
- “Good Catch, Rookie” (Long Story Short)
- “Last Whistle Stop” (Clever)
- “A Person of Honor” (Clever)
- “The Other Mrs. Jones” (Mysterical-E)
COLLECTIONS
- A Clear Path To Cross (2004) | Buy this book
Respectfully submitted by Ed Lynskey. About the author submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.
