Pat's micro-fiction story, "A Chilling Clue," is in the just released Crime and Suspense Anthology I: 200502006. The publisher is Wolfmont, and Editor Tony Burton also is editor for the Crime and Suspense Ezine at crimeandsuspense.com.

May 16, 2007 Presentation on "International Cultural Business Communication" at Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA.

May 17, 2007 Pat will share "Life Stories and Writing the Mystery" at Mr. Zion Lutheran Church in University Place, WA.

May 19, 2007 Pat serves as treasurer and board member of the Northwest Chapter of Mystery Writers of America. The May meeting, featuring Alice Orr, Literary Agent, will be held at Fado's in Seattle's Pioneer Square at 6 p.m. All are welcomed.

Autographed Bookplates Now Available Buying one of Pat's books as a gift? Check her website's Updates Page for information on obtaining a signed bookplate

Seeking Recipes! Have a good recipe to add to sleuth sidekick C.J.'s repertoire? Check Pat's site for info on sending it in

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Patricia Harrington

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Patricia (Pat) Harrington began a lifelong interest in mysteries as a kid. Like many a mystery fan, she began as an avid reader of the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boy Mysteries. She has spun that interest into her writing as a professional grant writer and as a mystery author. She writes grant programs to help communities and organizations that are fighting crime, drugs and gang activity. And she writes mysteries in the traditional/cozy genre. Her mystery short fiction has appeared on-line at MysteryBooks@About.com and NEFARIOUS, Tales of Mystery.  She has a mystery, "Murder So Sad," coming out in Murderous Intent Mystery Magazine.  Pat also is one of the acquisition editors for Mysterical-e, a mystery short story ezine.

Death Stalks the Khmer, Pat's first novel, is a traditional mystery set in the Pacific Northwest.  The book's amateur sleuth, Bridget (Bridg) O'Hern, has to learn about the Khmer culture and grasp the horrors of the Khmer Rouge experience in order to solve the shooting deaths of a Cambodian refugee couple.  Khmer is scheduled for release late this year.

Kids Mysteries are another passion of Pat's.  She has written a series for elementary age children that features a trio of fifth graders.  A.T. Washington, Jeff Knight and Soeun Ye have formed the Stanley St. Irregulars.  As Soeun Ye says, "We're like the Three Musketeers, only better.  They're just guys!"  This gang does good not bad, works to right the wronged, and helps the underdog.  The Case of the Purple Hands and The School Locker Mystery have appeared on Mysterybooks@About.com.  The stories often deal with current issues as in the latter mystery.  In The School Locker Mystery, the young sleuths solve a hate crime against a Kosovo girl but with a positive ending for both the victim and the offender. 

Books by Patricia Harrington:

Crime and Suspense Anthology I

Wolfmont Publishing
Anthology featuring a story by
Pat Harrington
April 2007

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The Ex-Factor

Koboca Publishing
Anthology featuring a story by
Pat Harrington

Death Comes Too Soon

2nd Bridget O'Hern mystery

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Murder by Six

© 2005 RAGE m a c h i n e Books

An anthology featuring a story by Pat Harrington

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Death Stalks the Khmer

1st Bridget O'Hern mystery
AmErica House Publishing

ISBN#  1-58851-350-5

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Mystery in Mind

An Anthology of
Supernatural Tales,
featuring one by
Pat Harrington

Reviews

"Well-known for her short fiction, author Patricia Harrington has produced a meticulously researched full-length novel focusing on the immigrant population of the Seattle area. Set in the mystical town of Seabell, DEATH STALKS THE KHMER, paints a realistic picture of the probvlems facing a group trying desperately to retain its own culture. Widowed Bridget O'hern, age 48, is a carefully drawn sympathetic character with whom readers will identify as she glues together the pieces of her shattered life while volunteering at an assistance agency dealing with immigrants. Harrington skillfully weaves teh many threads of her plot into a gripping account of murder, with just the right light touch provided by Bridget's Norweigian elkhound and 1965 thunderbird. Police procedures and cultural details add greatly to the readability of this debut novel. Watch for further exciting adventures as Bridget grows and develops in her new life."-- Linda Hutton, Editor of Mystery Time

"Harrington's novel is more than a simple work of fiction.  It's a sweeping landscape portrait of the process of assimilation framed by murder.  Middle-aged American's will be reminded of heart wrenching scenes from The Killing Fields and the story of Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father, while reading this unusually sensitive and insightful work of fiction."  --Sandra Morgan, editor, Cloudy Mountain Books and Fiction Forest

"Death Stalks the Khmer is a somber, yet fascinating, entertainment, a close and realistic examination of a community that few white Americans will ever know. Harrington, who has worked for years on behalf of the Cambodian transplants, does know them and this intimacy lends an exotic overlay to her well-paced and compelling novel."  -- G. Miki Hayden, author Pacific Empire and By Reason of Insanity.

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