Signs Troubled Bones (St Martins $25.99), a medieval mystery

Jeri Westerson writes medieval mysteries with an enigmatic, flawed, sexy, and very different protagonist. His name is Crispin Guest and he’s an ex-knight turned private eye. Think of him as a Medieval Sam Spade and these mysteries as Medieval Noir. That’s what makes these novels different. They’re full of hard-hitting action and characters with dirty little secrets. Then there’s the added twist dropped in the middle of murder: a relic with mystical powers. They always seem to stir things up, whether it’s something everyone wants to get their hands on or can’t wait to get rid of.

Besides writing Jeri is a public speaker, artist, singer, wife, and mother. She’s on the board of directors for the Southern California chapter of Mystery Writers of America; is president of the Orange County Chapter of Sisters in Crime and a member of Sisters in Crime Los Angeles chapter; She’s a member of Private Eye Writers of America and the Historical Novel Society. Jeri lives with her photographer husband, waves at her twenty-one-year-old son in college, and herds two cats, one tortoise–and the occasional tarantula– in her home in Southern California.

Visit her site http://www.jeriwesterson.com/