New Orleans Author Helps Out

Writer Erica Spindler's "Killer Takes All" is a New Orleans mystery that's giving back and the New Orleans Police Department is the winner.

Mystery writer Erica Spindler's last novel Killer Takes All is out in paperback this month. The book is a police procedural set in New Orleans, Splindler's home town and where many of her books take place.

Spindler, a former winner of the Daphne DuMaurier Award for Excellence, is donating five percent of the proceeds of this book until September 1, 2006 to the New Orleans Police Department to aid recovery efforts in her beloved city.

See Spindler's website at www.ericaspindler.com for details and to register for her latest giveaway contest.

For more on the mystery/crime genre, read our own Janet Kay Blaylock, a longtime mystery afficianado and freelance writer.