Amanda Brenner is a native Midwesterner who has traveled extensively throughout the United States, and who now lives quietly with her husband and an assortment of wildlife visitors to their urban home. Her interest in writing began at an early age when westerns were popular attractions at the local theater. It seemed only natural that her first novel, Trail of Vengeance, should be in that genre.

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After finishing a second western, Shadow of the Rope, she began to explore a new direction and completed three contemporary mysteries involving private investigator Sid Langdon, a self-doubting magnet for offbeat clients and hapless scenarios, the latest being The Mystery of the Nourdon Blue. Amanda enjoys learning from the books she reads, a characteristic reflected in the research she includes in her own works.


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Visit Amanda's website, and welcome: A corpse and a million dollars in missing jewels--and Sid Langdon is tapped to find the answers by the very man who may be responsible for both! It's Sid's first case--it might well be his last!


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Sid Langdon didn't believe in the Greenwood ghost--until it killed his client! Despite rumors of its deadly curse and doubts of the stone's very existence, a man risks his life and all he holds dear to search the steamy jungles of Guatemala for the fabulous sapphire known as the Nourdon Blue. Charlie Cross vows vengeance on the posse that lynched his brother, but he never figured on a drifter who would risk his life to avenge a friend. When the man she loved was cruelly gunned down, Charlotte Beckford swore she would see his murderer hang.

But Bowie Rayburn laughed at her threat as he rode away unconcerned.

After all, he thought, what could she do--she was just a girl. Are You an Author?

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