#alexia gordon

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Boyd on set of The Sandman Season 2, with Alexia Gordon

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[therefugeofbooks]

In my own challenge to read diverse authors this holiday season, I wanted to read a mystery or a thriller and I came across Alexia Gordon who is a black mystery writer.

I've read Death in D Minor that is more of an ending of the year holiday book than a Christmas book specifically, but it was so good! There's murder, classical music, art theft and forgery and ghosts! I loved the main character, Gethsemane, a classical musician turned teacher who befriends ghosts in her free time 🤣

The two ghosts that appeared are so friendly! I love this kind spooky but cozy theme? And art heist is so intriguing! I didn't know what to expect of it, but I enjoyed all the details throughout the story. It was a very fun book with a cool mystery!

What are you guys reading before the end of the year? 😊

[nanowrimo]

Every writer, while writing her current work, thinks of a hundred great stories she should write instead of her current work.   Don’t change. Stick with one story for thirty days. Then, if you decide you’d rather write about unicorn bank robbers instead of singing fish, go ahead.   Don’t forget those other ideas. Keep a notepad handy. Write them down. (To this day, I kick myself for not jotting down the Greatest Story Idea of All Time before it fled my mind.) Because unicorn bank robbers sound like a great sequel to singing fish.

Alexia Gordon is a Virginia native, a physician by training, and an author by passion. She writes the Gethsemane Brown mysteries, from Henery Press: Murder in G Major (Lefty winner, Agatha nominee, Suspense Magazine Best Of); Death in D Minor; Killing in C Sharp; and Fatality in F. Find her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or visit her website.

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[blacksandbooks]

Killing in C Sharp (Gethsemane Brown Mysteries #3)

Alexia Gordon

ISBN 1635113040

She saved Carraigfaire—but can she save her friends? Gethsemane Brown fought off an attack by a sleazy hotel developer who wanted to turn her Irish cottage into a tourist trap. Now she must face a vengeful ghost determined to exact revenge for her murder centuries ago. This ghost’s wrath spares no one—not Gethsemane’s students, Inspector Niall O’Reilly, fellow teacher Frankie Grennan, or a group of ghost hunters descended on Dunmullach to capture proof ghosts exist. Proof Gethsemane has to quash to keep Eamon, her resident ghost and friend, from becoming an internet sensation. As if a spiteful specter wasn’t bad enough, a crooked music reviewer turns up dead in the opera house orchestra pit, a famous composer is arrested for the crime, and Gethsemane must team up with a notorious true-crime author to clear his name. If she doesn’t, friends will die, a ghost she cares about will never know peace, and she’ll star in a final act gruesome enough for any opera.

[nanowrimo]

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—Alexia Gordon is a Virginia native, a physician by training, and an author by passion. She writes the Gethsemane Brown mysteries, from Henery Press: Murder in G Major (Lefty winner, Agatha nominee, Suspense Magazine Best Of); Death in D Minor; Killing in C Sharp; and Fatality in F. Find her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or visit her website.

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Text added over original image by Vidar Nordli-Mathisen on Unsplash.

[nevinslibrary]

Weird & Wonderful Wednesday

This was a mystery with just a bit of fantasy thrown in there, and only in the best way. Gethsemane Brown is a music teacher and violinist who accepts a position at an Irish boarding school. She also moves into a haunted cottage. Oh, and then she is hunted by a dangerous murderer too. So… settling in well, settling in well… luckily, the haunted cottage is actually haunted, and the ghosts that she can see may also be able to help her solve the mystery.

Sometimes you just feel like reading about a musician who talks to ghosts and solves crimes, am I right? In all seriousness though, this was a fun book. It was more than a cozy mystery (in tone and death and such), but it wasn’t something more hardcore like a Kathy Reichs. Also, they’ve made two movies (I think) with this character on the Hallmark Mysteries channel too. With Tamera Mowry-Housley starring as Gethsemane.

You may like this book If you Liked: In the Company of Witches by Auralee Wallace, Be My Ghost by Carol J. Perry, or Aunt Dimity's Death by Nancy Atherton

Murder in G Major by Alexia Gordon

[books-in-order]

Books of Alexia Gordon in order

Alexia Gordon is an American author best known for writing the Gethsemane Brown Mystery series. Her work has been nominated for an Agatha Award, won a Lefty Award, finished as a finalist for the Silver Falchion Award, and won multiple Lone Star Literary Bloggers’ Choice Awards.

Gethsemane Brown Mysteries

Murder in G Major (2016) — Buy on Amazon!

Death in D Minor (2017) — Buy on Amazon!

Killing in C Sharp (2018) — Buy on Amazon!

Fatality in F (2019) — Buy on Amazon!

Execution in E (2020) — Buy on Amazon!

Anthologies

Writers Crushing COVID-19 (2020) — Buy on Amazon!

Malice Domestic: Mystery Most Diabolical (2022) — Buy on Amazon!

[minoritiesinpublishing]

‘We already have a Black writer’: Black Chicago crime fiction author Tracy Clark, others talk about the fight for recognition

Writers Kellye Garrett, Alexia Gordon and Tracy Clark talk about what it means to be a Black woman writing crime fiction.

In addition to Crime Writers of Color, Clark, Garrett and Gordon are all members of Sisters in Crime, an organization dedicated to women writers in crime fiction. Jefferson Park resident Lori Rader-Day is a crime author and the president of Sisters in Crime . She believes the road to more diversity needs to extend beyond the first book writers publish.

“I think we often see more diversity at the debut author level, but can we find a way to make sure that diverse authors find their audience so that they sell enough books, so that get have a longer career than one book, than two books?” Rader-Day said.