Sara Hoskinson Frommer
Welcome to my web site, whether you're a mystery lover, a music lover, a quilter, a tree hugger, or just like getting to know authors. Mostly, I write mystery novels, but I've also published a few short stories. Also some little hi-lo (high interest-low level) books for adults learning how to read in literacy programs.
Look around and let me know if there's something you wish I'd included or something that doesn't work right. I'd love to hear from you.
New in August, 2005.
Why a tree? That's what Joan Spencer
thinks when one of her best violinists announces
that she can't play the community orchestra's
children's concert after all, because she has to
sit in a tree. Turns out, of course, that sitting 70 feet
up in an oak tree isn't exactly safe. And then Joan's
son is in danger.
Hardcover edition
ISBN 978-0-312-32921-1
$23.95 U.S./$33.95 Canada
St. Martin's Minotaur http://www.minotaurbooks.com/
175 Fifth Ave., New
York NY 10010
Distributed by McClelland & Stewart, Inc. in Canada
Available from traditional and online booksellers:
Also from St. Martins Minotaur (888)330-8477 ext. 6540. If you like, send a message to Howard's Bookstore at Howards116@sbcglobal.net, or phone Howard's at (812) 336-7662, and when they call me, I'll trot downtown and sign books to anyone you wish.
Bloomington Symphony Orchestra
St. Martin's Minotaur e-book
ISBN 0-312-70890-4
Download from Palm Digital Media $17.95
now out of print
Hardcover edition
ISBN 0-312-30243-6
St. Martin's Minotaur
now out of print
Worldwide paperback
ISBN 0-373-26510-7
Large print hardcover
ISBN 1-57490-469-8
Thomas H. Beeler http://www.beelerpub.com/
Beeler, alas, is going out of business. But as long as
they last, his mysteries are a steal. The last I checked,
you could buy any 10 of these hardcover library
editions for $3.00 each, which included shipping.
Excerpt Reviews What others say about it
Here's the real Bishop Hill.
The following books are out of print, but some mystery bookstores will have them. Also, you can click Howards116@sbcglobal.net HERE
or phone Howard's Bookstore at (812) 336-7662 to place an order, and when they call me, I'll walk over and sign first edition copies to anyone you wish.
The Vanishing Violinist, St. Martin's Minotaur, 1999; Worldwide, 2000.
Murder & Sullivan, St. Martin's Press, 1997; Worldwide, 1998.
Reader's Choice Award for Best Traditional (Amateur Sleuth) Mystery.
Buried in Quilts, St. Martin's Press, 1994;
Worldwide, 1996;
Now a POD trade paperback from
The Authors Guild
Backinprint.com, 2000.
ISBN 0-595-14306-7
$15.95 US/$25.95 Canada
Murder in C Major, St. Martin's Press, 1986;
Worldwide, 1988.
Now a trade paperback from Poisoned Pen Press.
ISBN: 1-890208-31-0. $14.95
Poisoned Pen Press Missing Mystery #17 April, 2000
Coming in December, 2003
ISBN 0-7862-5987-6
Large print softcover library edition. $24.95
Thorndike
Adult New Reader books
As my first contribution to literacy (before I started tutoring an adult learner in 1999), I wrote sixteen little books for adults who read at the first- and second-grade level. Very short and easy to read, these illustrated books appeal to the interests of adults, not children. Some of them are mysteries, including my first quilting mystery, Dear Mary Ellen. In 1999 I read about how Dear Mary Ellen was used in an ESOL GED class of Latino students learning to read mysteries. I was delighted to find my little story used between Langston Hughes and Guy de Maupassant, and getting raves from the students. In 1990 and 1991 they were published as the Kaleidoscope Collection of Stories by New Readers Press, the publishing division of Laubach Literacy International, and are used in many literacy programs. They're now out of print, but some of these books are available from Howard's Bookstore. For descriptions and to see illustrated pages, click HERE.
Short stories
"Taken Care Of," Blue Murder Magazine, 1998
"Cold Fish," "twist," TheCase.com, 1997.
"One Man's Meat," Red Herring Mystery Magazine, 1995.
Recipes
"Grandma Zimmerman's Corn Bread," Recipe of the Month (October 2002) on maggody.com.
"Fred Lundquist's Sourdough Oatmeal Bread" in A Taste of Murder, Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers, edited by Joe Grossman and Robert Weibezahl, Dell, 1999.
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Designed September 1999; most recent update September 3, 2005