Genre: Suspense Thriller
Summary: What if the Loveladies lagoons on Long Beach Island, New Jersey, originally dug by actual Soviet spies, were used today as a conduit for espionage?Miranda Craig’s summer at the shore is disrupted by the death of a neighbor, subsequent noise of his children’s huge construction project and her unrelenting questions that she feels are short of paranoia.What did the dead man do for the CIA, could her next door neighbor be a Nazi in hiding and are there still Russian spies in Loveladies? She wonders if there is a connection between the spyware found on her computer and those of other residents in her elite shore town, to the Ukrainian hack of 2015 and the recent tampering with the Presidential election.With the help of another neighbor Liz, the two unravel a complicated plot and a frightening realization that the new Cold War is potentially more deadly and closer to home.
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Author Bio: Keslie Patch Bohrod started writing while in grade school at the Tappan Elementary School in Ravenna, Ohio. In Fifth grade, she wrote an essay entitled "Molly Pitcher" for the Daughters of the American Revolution essay contest and won at the state level. The next year's topic was the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Her essay titled "The Human Jefferson", won state, district and national levels and was published in the Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine. Principal Ted Poole declared a "Keslie Patch" day at the school where she read her essay to all classes.
Keslie received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and completed one year of post baccalaureate studies in Social Work from the University of Akron. She obtained her Master of Arts degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from the University of Cincinnati.
She began her career as a Rehabilitation Consultant to Worker's Compensation Insurance Companies in Orlando, Florida, in 1984. In 1986, she moved to Macon, Georgia where she began to work for Underwriter's Adjusting Company, a subsidiary of Continental Insurance Companies. Over the next nine years, her various jobs moved her to Atlanta, Georgia; Cranbury and Piscataway New Jersey and New York City where she gained experience in sales & marketing, commercial lines underwriting and ending as a Quality, Service and Productivity Officer for the company. Other positions elsewhere included project manager and medical/cost researcher for an expert witness for Life Care Planning.
Meeting husband Bill in 1991 they were married in 1994. They have two adult children, Jaysen and Stephanie and a Weimador named Bo.
Keslie has served on a number of non-profit boards such as Summit Child Care, Watchung Hills Regional High School PTO and Loveladies Harbor Organization.
Loveladies Ennui is her first fictional novel in a planned series featuring Miranda Craig.
Purchase links:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B094Q77TK9
Social Media links:
Website: https://kesliebohrod.wixsite.com/loveladiesennui
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Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21491379.Keslie_Patch_Bohrod
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