Scott Finley
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America
Genres: Cosy Mystery
After graduating from the University of Texas with a degree in journalism Scott launched a 39 plus year career in broadcast news where he worked for all four major network affiliates. Following that was a stint doing training and corporate videos, and then he transitioned into doing media for non-profit entities, including the Alzheimer’s Association where he covered their media for the entire state of Texas. Along the way, and despite his best efforts, he collected one Emmy® nomination, 19 Telly Awards, three Aegis Awards, two Addy awards and five Best Newscast in Texas awards from the Associated Press, as well as an honorable mention from PR News for blogging for a non-profit. Outside of media and broadcast, he is the author of "A Little Theatre", a two-act comedy that has been produced by Texas community theaters with relatively few over-ripe tomatoes thrown at the actors. Scott lives in Dallas, Texas with his legal counsel Gabrielle, two cats, and a neurotic dog.
Scott Finley's books
Genres: Cosy Mystery, Historical Fiction, Mystery
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+
March 1930 Ship's nurse Maeve Chandler of the luxury liner Queen Victoria is finding out all that dazzles may not be diamonds, as she investigates a sparkling shipboard murder alongside up-and-coming diamantaire Harry Winston. The British luxury liner Queen Victoria is bound from New York to Cherbourg carrying several diamond dealers when one of them, an irascible and miserly old man, is found dead in his First-Class cabin, seated in an armchair with no sign of struggle, his mouth stuffed with diamonds, and the cabin locked from the inside. Traveling with him is his young nephew, who owes an insurmountable amount of cash to an American gangster and has fallen in love with a ship's nurse. Also along for the voyage is a mysterious gunman hired for protection by the uncle only the day before sailing, as well as the uncle's former business partner, feeling constant remorse for the deadly...
Genres: Cosy Mystery, Crime, Mystery
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+
October 1929 Murder books passage on the British luxury liner Queen Victoria, turning ship's nurse Maeve Chandler into an amateur sleuth apprenticing under the tutelage of mystery writer Agatha Christie. A passenger dies in full view of the first-class dining salon, followed by a millionaire apparently leaping overboard a day before the New York stock market crashes. Add in an abusive husband pushed down an open lift shaft and a crewman left to cook against a boiler in the ship's engine room, and a killer will walk free when the ship reaches New York unless Maeve and Agatha can unwind the clues -- but with 2,935 suspects on board, every revolution of the Queen Victoria's propellers means time is running out. 378 pages including bonus chapter for next book in series, a reader's guide for book clubs and a lexicon of definitions and people from the era who are mentioned...