Official Website of Mystery Novelist
Marie Moore
Welcome to my website!
My first mystery novel, Shore Excursion, was released by Camel Press, an imprint of Coffeetown Press, on April 1, 2012.
Shore Excursion was the first book in a new mystery series featuring Sidney Marsh, a young, New York based travel agent. Sidney came to Manhattan from Mississippi, fell in love with the Big Apple, and landed a job at a travel agency in Manhattan, Itchy Feet Travel. Based in New York, Sidney travels the world, working with her best friend and business partner, the flamboyant and fun-loving Jay Wilson...
Now Sidney and Jay are back, in a new adventure, Game Drive, which was released by Camel Press on April 15, 2013. Find it in bookstores and on Amazon and Barnes and Noble, in trade paperback and e-book!
Again, welcome to my website! I hope you will enjoy some of its features:
Welcome to the world of Sidney Lanier Marsh!
My first mystery novel, Shore Excursion, was released by Camel Press, an imprint of Coffeetown Press, on April 1, 2012.
Shore Excursion was the first book in a new mystery series featuring Sidney Marsh, a young, New York based travel agent. Sidney came to Manhattan from Mississippi, fell in love with the Big Apple, and landed a job at a travel agency in Manhattan, Itchy Feet Travel. Based in New York, Sidney travels the world, working with her best friend and business partner, the flamboyant and fun-loving Jay Wilson...
Now Sidney and Jay are back, in a new adventure, Game Drive, which was released by Camel Press on April 15, 2013. Find it in bookstores and on Amazon and Barnes and Noble, in trade paperback and e-book!
Again, welcome to my website! I hope you will enjoy some of its features:
- Watch the News page and mark your calendars for up-coming events
- Read the latest Reviews and watch for Event Photos
- Check out the Fun Stuff page for some travel tips and a great Southern recipe
Welcome to the world of Sidney Lanier Marsh!
Tanzania Safari...
Watch the News Page for exciting plans for an African Abercrombie and Kent safari to Tanzania being planned for January 2014 by Jan Oglesby at Gulliver's Travel.
Many thanks to Bill Boyce of Germantown, TN, for sharing his African wildlife video shot on safari in Tarangire National Park in Tanzania. Click on the link below to view!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT6zfLobGKw
Many thanks to Bill Boyce of Germantown, TN, for sharing his African wildlife video shot on safari in Tarangire National Park in Tanzania. Click on the link below to view!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT6zfLobGKw
Upcoming Events...
There will be no events from now until mid-August, except the following, because Marie is working now on Sidney's next adventure!
July 18, 2013: Marie will be speaking and signing at Trezevant Manor, Memphis, TN, 7:15 pm
Event Photos page has a new pic from the booksigning at Lemuria in Jackson
July 18, 2013: Marie will be speaking and signing at Trezevant Manor, Memphis, TN, 7:15 pm
Event Photos page has a new pic from the booksigning at Lemuria in Jackson
In bookstores and online now...
Game Drive
Book 2 in The Sidney Marsh Murder Mystery Series...
Sidney Marsh is a Mississippi-born, New York-based travel agent. She and her best friend and business partner, Jay Wilson, are struggling to remain standing in a world where the ground is shifting. Their boss at Itchy Feet Travel has a new scheme to attract customers—safari tour packages. He sends Sidney and Jay on a familiarization trip to Cape Town and safari country to check out the accommodations and confirm that the experience lives up to the hype in the brochures.
Sidney looks forward to the deluxe trip and so does Jay, despite his deathly fear of animals, both wild and domesticated. Their experience will be far wilder than either could have imagined. First Sidney stumbles upon a suspicious rendezvous and possible murder scene in Cape Town. After Sidney’s pocket is picked on a gondola ride up Table Mountain, she suspects that someone in their group is an imposter, a suspicion that is soon confirmed. At Leopard Drive—the luxury game lodge near Kruger National Park that serves as their base camp—one of the other agents on the “fam trip” turns up dead.
Sidney carries on a risky flirtation with a handsome Afrikaner, who may or may not be the latest manifestation of the “Marsh Curse,” which seems to jinx her every relationship. And Sidney and Jay discover that they have far more to fear from predatory humans than wild animals.
Game Drive is the second book in the Sidney Marsh Murder Mystery series.
"Moore's safari mystery proves that humans are more dangerous than wild animals! Compelling and well-written."
--Sarah Wisseman, author of the Lisa Donahue Archaeological Mysteries
Game Drive is available in trade paperback, Kindle and other electronic media, Marie Moore's books are available online and in bookstores nationwide.
Sidney looks forward to the deluxe trip and so does Jay, despite his deathly fear of animals, both wild and domesticated. Their experience will be far wilder than either could have imagined. First Sidney stumbles upon a suspicious rendezvous and possible murder scene in Cape Town. After Sidney’s pocket is picked on a gondola ride up Table Mountain, she suspects that someone in their group is an imposter, a suspicion that is soon confirmed. At Leopard Drive—the luxury game lodge near Kruger National Park that serves as their base camp—one of the other agents on the “fam trip” turns up dead.
Sidney carries on a risky flirtation with a handsome Afrikaner, who may or may not be the latest manifestation of the “Marsh Curse,” which seems to jinx her every relationship. And Sidney and Jay discover that they have far more to fear from predatory humans than wild animals.
Game Drive is the second book in the Sidney Marsh Murder Mystery series.
"Moore's safari mystery proves that humans are more dangerous than wild animals! Compelling and well-written."
--Sarah Wisseman, author of the Lisa Donahue Archaeological Mysteries
Game Drive is available in trade paperback, Kindle and other electronic media, Marie Moore's books are available online and in bookstores nationwide.
About Shore Excursion, Book 1 in The Sidney Marsh Murder Mystery Series (April, 2012)...
Travel agents might be a vanishing breed, but Sidney Marsh, a New York transplant from Mississippi, is holding her ground—at least on land. She is the tour leader on a cruise from Scandinavia to Russia for a group of eccentric senior citizens who call themselves the High Steppers. Sidney expects her days to be filled with long meals, shopping expeditions and visits to museums, churches and fjords. But this cruise is anything but routine. There is a killer on board, targeting the High Steppers and quite possibly herself.
After the first suspicious death, the captain and his crew are grimly determined to carry on as usual. Frustrated and dismayed by their inaction, Sidney decides to take matters into her own hands and launch her own investigation. She enlists the halfhearted help of her friend and business partner, the flamboyant and fun-loving Jay Wilson.
Suspects abound. What about those two handsome young men who stay mysteriously aloof? One of them has his eye on Sidney. So does another passenger, far too charming and again too young to fit the “High Stepper” mold. Then there’s Captain Vargos, the arrogant ladies’ man whose plans to thwart Sidney’s investigation might include seduction. Who is that crew member shadowing Sidney? Is the theater really haunted? Even the High Steppers themselves are not as predictable or harmless as they seem. The closer Sydney gets to the truth, the less she understands.
How can a luxurious European cruise go so wrong?
Shore Excursion is available in trade paperback at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis, Lemuria Books in Jackson, Reed's Gum Tree Bookstore in Tupelo, Politics and Prose in Washington, DC, Mystery Loves Company in Oxford, MD, other fine independent booksellers, and also at Barnes and Noble and Amazon. It is also available for Kindle and Nook.
After the first suspicious death, the captain and his crew are grimly determined to carry on as usual. Frustrated and dismayed by their inaction, Sidney decides to take matters into her own hands and launch her own investigation. She enlists the halfhearted help of her friend and business partner, the flamboyant and fun-loving Jay Wilson.
Suspects abound. What about those two handsome young men who stay mysteriously aloof? One of them has his eye on Sidney. So does another passenger, far too charming and again too young to fit the “High Stepper” mold. Then there’s Captain Vargos, the arrogant ladies’ man whose plans to thwart Sidney’s investigation might include seduction. Who is that crew member shadowing Sidney? Is the theater really haunted? Even the High Steppers themselves are not as predictable or harmless as they seem. The closer Sydney gets to the truth, the less she understands.
How can a luxurious European cruise go so wrong?
Shore Excursion is available in trade paperback at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis, Lemuria Books in Jackson, Reed's Gum Tree Bookstore in Tupelo, Politics and Prose in Washington, DC, Mystery Loves Company in Oxford, MD, other fine independent booksellers, and also at Barnes and Noble and Amazon. It is also available for Kindle and Nook.
"An appealing heroine tangles with murder and romantic interludes gone wrong in a tartly funny take-off on tour travel, with more twists than a conga line. Readers will be enthralled."
– Carolyn Hart, 2013 Amelia Award-winning author of the Death on Demand series
Stay Tuned for More from the Sidney Marsh Series...
Next Up....
OPEN JAW
Sidney leads her readers and clients on a merry chase through mystical northern India, into the jungle home of the Bengal tiger, and through the twisting mountain roads of the Himalayas before meeting her match in Nepal in the ancient streets of medieval Kathmandu.
Next Up....
OPEN JAW
Sidney leads her readers and clients on a merry chase through mystical northern India, into the jungle home of the Bengal tiger, and through the twisting mountain roads of the Himalayas before meeting her match in Nepal in the ancient streets of medieval Kathmandu.
