As You Lie There... Sleeping

About the Book

Lafouchfeye County, Mississippi, and the entire Mississippi Gulf Coast were still reeling from the double murder in August of 1987 of a distinguished Judge and his wife, when a week before Christmas of the same year, the newlywed couple of recently elected District Attorney Wendell Matthew Holmes, Jr. of Warren County, Mississippi, and his wife Emma, are discovered dead in a refrigerator car in the Lafouchfeye County railroad yard.

Percy (Teaspoon) Dinwiddle was found guilty of the Holmes’ murders and sentenced to thirty years in prison. The first case went unsolved, Sheriff Travis died of a heart attack and after the first of the year, his son, Jim Travis was elected Sheriff on January 6, 1988.

Twenty years later a young lawyer named Taylor L. Lipton, was researching both sets of homicides. New evidence through DNA was introduced concerning Percy Dinwiddle and Percy was set free February 1, 2009.

Greed, revenge, and deception erupt like a volcano, throwing Jim, Bea and Aunt Jewels into a whirlwind of chaos.

About the Author

Terry I. Miles lives on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Having acquired an Associates Degree from Jefferson Davis Junior College in 1997 and a BA in English and History in 1999 from USM, she is continuing her education in various avenues. She has been the Secretary of the Gulf Coast Writers Association for the past five years and a member in good standing in The National Scholars Honor Society. She is the published author of eleven Cozy Little Murder Mysteries and two children’s books. “Gussie the Christmas Goose and Other Stories and the second one, A Christmas Carousel of Children’s stories. P.S. Her twelfth Cozy Little Murder Mystery is ‘in the works’ Its title is: “Murder…Could Be Cause For Divorce” coming in the spring of 2011. You may browse www.gulfportgalleria.com or gcwriters.org for further delight and reach her at Miles50@cableone.net