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Mysteries Worth Investigating
Welcome to my blog. My name is Merrill Heath and I’ve been writing fiction since I was in junior high school (which is more years than I care to reveal). While in high school and college I won a few...
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The Alec Stover Mysteries
In some ways this is an experiment – writing a series of novellas. But I’ve talked with a lot of people who said they don’t read more simply because they don’t have time. They look at the novels being...
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Novels by W. L. Heath
During his writing career, which spanned three decades, my father, William L. Heath, published eight novels and more than three dozen short stories. Two of his short stories were adapted for TV and one...
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Violent Saturday and Ill Wind
I’m pleased to announce that Violent Saturday and Ill Wind are now available as ebooks through Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Violent Saturday Originally published in 1955, Violent Saturday was voted...
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Runner
A new short story, Runner, is now available. This is based on a story I wrote many years ago about a woman who was attacked while jogging. I had planned to publish it as part of a short story anthology...
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Darby’s Folly
During Dad’s writing career he wrote a wide variety of books — suspense, southern literature, young adult, even one that could be classified as fantasy. Darby’s Folly is a children’s book about a...
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A Hackamore Saga
Some of you will remember this book as The Good Old Boys, published in 1971. Dad never liked that title, so I’m happy to publish it with his title. Many people approached Dad after reading this book...
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The Inheritance
It is my pleasure to introduce you to a new novel by my cousin, Ellen Heath, entitled The Inheritance. Born in Mississippi and raised by her late aunt in a Tucson trailer court, Martha Stahlings has...
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Selected Shorts
When my father started his writing career there was a great demand for short stories. Publications such as The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Argosy, Esquire, even Cosmopolitan published short...
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2014 – The Year of Publishing Dangerously
Earlier this month, when I was thinking about writing goals for 2014, I realized that I didn’t publish anything in 2013. I worked on several books. I outlined several others. But I didn’t publish...
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Timebox
Synergistic Escapes, Inc., has developed technology that allows people to experience a virtual vacation that is amazingly realistic. Not only that, but the time ratio is approximately 40:1. One minute...
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Kyle Barrymore Mysteries
I’m excited to announce a new series – the Kyle Barrymore Mystery series. This series will be a little more introspective, with more character development as the main character, a homicide detective,...
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Access Denied – The Alec Stover Mysteries – #2
I’m excited to announce that the second book in the Alec Stover mystery series – Access Denied – is now available! It was really fun to get back into this series. I actually started this book several...
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W. L. Heath
During his writing career, which spanned three decades, William L. Heath published eight novels and more than three dozen short stories. Two of his short stories were adapted for TV and one novel,...
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Merrill Heath
Merrill Heath is the author of five novels and numerous short stories. His novels are suspense thrillers and mysteries, with a new horror novel to be published soon. He also has two more mystery novels...
View ArticleA New Beginning
It’s time for a new beginning. It’s time to start something new…a new series…in a new genre…for me, at least. I’m writing a series of cozy mysteries. In fact, I’m almost done with the first draft of...
View ArticleWhat is a “cozy” mystery?
If you look up Cozy Mystery on Wikipedia, you will see the following: Cozy mysteries, also referred to as “cozies,” are a subgenre of crime fiction in which sex and violence occur off stage, the...
View ArticleNo profanity. No graphic violence. No gratuitous sex.
There are several tenets of cozy mysteries and one is that they are “clean.” No profanity, no violence, and no sex. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen 1-star reviews on Amazon with the main...
View ArticleAmateur Sleuths
The main character and crime-solver in cozy mysteries is usually a woman who is an amateur sleuth. Her life’s experiences have provided her with certain skills that she will utilize in order to solve...
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