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Kate Sweeney

She hails from the Midwest, Chicago exactly, where she's lived most of her life. As for what she does for a living? In her own words: "It's a bit unremarkable. I'm an office manager for a small company in the town where I live. A lesbian version of Walter Middy! I file by day. By night, I write romantic, passionate love stories and murder mysteries.. Go figure!

What I like most about the obscurity of my job, is.. Well it's obscure. Oh, and it pays the bills.. It also gives me plenty of time to pursue my passion for writing. Two years ago my boss gave me an old computer. I hooked it up and sat there for about two minutes staring at the blank screen, then it started. All the stories, all the adventures that were locked in my scrambled brain since I was a kid came flowing out. I had sprung a leak and I've been happily leaking ever since. Well, you know what I mean."

Fascinated by the power of the written word, M. K. Sweeney has finally put her imagination on paper. Owing her love of reading to her mother, the author admits, "She was constantly reading to us, whether it was a short story by O. Henry or the gossip column from the Chicago Tribune. It mattered little, she had a way of making a grocery list seem full of adventure!"

Website: www.kateryanmysteries.com

Email MK Sweeney: ksweeney22@aol.com

Current Works

She Waits

Book One: Kate Ryan Series

by Kate Sweeney

ISBN: 978-1-933113-40-5

Price: $16.95

Release Date: April 2006

Winner of the 2007 GCLS Literary Award for Debut Author

Kate Ryan is a middle-aged, accident prone, ex-private investigator. Emphasis on 'ex' as she and her partner gave up their profession after their last case nearly cost both of them, their lives. They wisely decided to limp away with whatever dignity and body parts they had left. Unfortunately, Kate will forever carry the scar to remind her of her folly that nearly took her life and plagues her heart and soul. Vowing never again to let her emotions rule her reason, Kate decides to go back to her first love, free-lance photography. For the next few years, she exists alone in - "My emotionally detached loop," as Kate proudly calls it. Then all hell breaks loose and Kate drops a loop.

Enter young Dr. Maggie Winfield and her adorable Aunt Martha. Kate literally stumbles into their lives one autumn morning and becomes an unwitting participant in their tangled web. Clues unravel in their small little hamlet and old secrets are sadly revealed. Kate's long forgotten instincts now compel her to untangle this web of deceit. In the midst of all this murder and mayhem, the detached photographer finds herself in a position she never thought she would be in again. It seems the feisty Dr. Winfield is having an unexpected, yet pleasant effect on her. The elusive Kate combines forces with the sarcastic Maggie, as they become the nucleus for this ongoing series.

A Nice Clean Murder

Book Two: Kate Ryan Series

by Kate Sweeney

ISBN: 978-1-933113-78-4

Price: $16.95

Release Date: December 2006

A Nice Clean Murder, the second in the Kate Ryan Mysteries series, finds Kate’s brother-in-law, Mac, heir to a small family estate in the wild west of Ireland; bequeathed to him by an uncle he barely knew. Kate finds this a little suspicious, but as her family, she too is excited about Mac’s inheritance.

When a young Irishman collapses on Kate’s doorstep, her suspicions are justified. She is now sure that Mac’s Uncle Brian did not ‘accidentally fall off the cliff’ as reported. So, she agrees to accompany Mac and Teri on their trip across the Atlantic.

It’s good timing too, since things between Kate and Dr. Maggie Winfield are a little tense—it seems the elusive Kate is still chasing her demons.

Join Kate Ryan and her family on a historic, merry romp of murder and betrayal along the romantic, rugged coast of the Emerald Isle.

Away From The Dawn

by Kate Sweeney

ISBN: 978-1-933113-81-4

Price: $16.95

Release Date: August 2007

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Haunted by her immortality, Sebastian wandered Europe for five centuries in search of her lost humanity. Her quest – to find a way to live among the mortals. The search seemed futile, until she meets the brilliant, Dr. Alex Taylor. Sebastian reluctantly joins forces with this woman, this mortal who could be her savior.

Sebastian’s quest now causes an upheaval in the hierarchy, and the vampire community is in jeopardy for the first time in over a thousand years. Ancient ways are challenged, and the battle for supremacy among the hierarchy begins.

Enter Leigh, Sebastian’s lover and companion through the centuries. Will she be Sebastian’s comrade or nemesis?

Will Leigh aide Sebastian in her quest, or hold Sebastian away from the dawn.

The Trouble With Murder

Book Three: Kate Ryan Series

By Kate Sweeney

ISBN: 978-1-933113-85-2

Price: $16.95

Release Date: January 2008

After a three-week photo assignment chasing wild mustangs in the heat of South Dakota, Kate Ryan wants nothing more than a quiet week at her log cabin in the woods. She decides it should be "girls only" and invites her sister Teri, Aunt Hannah, and Maggie.

Her nice quiet week turns out to be anything but. The trouble is, Maggie brings a friend along, and Kate is more reluctant to acknowledge any feelings she might have for Maggie. However, Kate finds a champion in Aunt Hannah, who is determined to see her sarcastic niece and the elusive Kate together at last.

Yet, something more troublesome is happening on the lake: a violent storm that leaves them isolated; a body washes up on the beach; too many suspects and no way out - that's the trouble with murder.

Forthcoming Works

Residual Moon

by Kate Sweeney

ISBN: 978-1-933113-94-4

Price: $16.95

Release Date: May 2008

Two young women are found dead on the Chicago lakefront in as many weeks, each murdered in the same fashion. Detective Sergeant Grayson MacCarthaigh is at her wit’s end trying to solve the grisly mess before the murderer claims another victim.

Her only common thread is Dr. Neala Rourke, the curator of the famous National Museum in Dublin, Ireland. She is in Chicago with her archaeological exhibit at the Field Museum, which suspiciously coincides with the two murders.
With a strange and eerie turn of events, things start unraveling. Grayson now is compelled to return to her birthplace and follows Dr. Rourke back to Ireland where ancient Celtic beliefs and mythology are thrown into the mix, turning the detective’s logical world upside-down.

However, one fact remains for the determined Detective MacCarthaigh: Someone killed those two women and whether real or mythological—he or she will kill again.

The O'Malley Legacy

by Kate Sweeney

ISBN: 978-1-933113-95-1

Price: $16.95

Release Date: August 2008

Travel through history with the O’Malley women—from the 14th century and Brigid O’Malley, the Irish Barbarian, to the 1820s and sail the Jamaica Winds with Quinlan Stoddard, and finally to Shawn Riordan, fighting for her love and country during the weeks before the invasion of Normandy in Twilight’s Own.

Though vastly different in time and generations, the fiercely loyal, independent blood that courses through their veins connects these women. Each a warrior in her own right, three women struggle to find their rightful place in the world in which they live.

Strengthened by the spirit of all the O’Malley women who walked the earth before them, they battle tenaciously for family; they fight passionately for love—they are the O’Malley.