Louise Titchener
Description
Louise F. was born on 1941 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She began to write short stories in high school and continued to write in college. She married with a philosophy student, and they moved to Ohio, where she obtained a Masters degree and taught freshman English and her husband became a Philosophy Professor. The marriage had two sons, and she began to write in earnest, those first efforts remain unsold. The family moved to Maryland, where she joined a literary critique group. There she wrote a collaborative effort with other three women, Ruth Glick, Carolyn Males and Eileen Buckholtz. The result was a romance novel, "Love is Elected", was published by Silhouette Books under the pseudonym Alyssa Howard, and they also wrote other novel, Southern Persuasion. But they decided split them into groups of two. She wrote in collaboration with Ruth Glick under the pseudonyms Alexis Hill, Alexis Hill Jordan and Tess Marlowe, and in collaboration with Carolyn Males as Clare Richards and Clare Richmond. She also wrote alone under the pseudonyms of Anne Silverlock and Jane Silverwood, and fantasy and mystery novels under her real name: Louise Titchener. She said: "I'm a story-teller; I'm not a romance writer, mystery writer, or suspense writer per se. I tell all different kinds of stories. I certainly would not recommend it to other writers -- it's not the way to build an audience or a career in today's market." With their children grown, Louise and her husband decided to move from the Maryland suburbs to inner city Baltimore. Now, they are grandparents. When she isn't writing fiction, she paints, sails, bicycles and figure skates. She particularly enjoys long walks around Baltimore, where she loves to set her mystery books. She is member of the Washington Romance Writers, a chapter of the Romance Writers of America.
Books
Homebody
In a house he is restoring, builder Don Lark meets a woman squatter who turns out to be a ghost. But Sylvie Delaney does not realize she is a ghost, thinking she is alive. Lark learns she was murdered and goes searching for the killer. As he sinks his teeth into his new project, Lark's new neighborhood starts to work its charms on him. He strikes up a romance with the real estate agent who sold him the house. His neighbors, two charming, chatty old ladies, ply him endlessly with delicious Southern cooking. Even Sylvie, the squatter Lark was once desperate to evict from the old house, is now growing on him. But when Lark unearths an old tunnel in the cellar, the house's enchantments start to turn ominous.
Mantrap
No one ever died of a broken heart. Sally Dunphy has had a rough eighteen months. Then she hears that her ex-fiance has taken a dive off a bridge. Convinced that Joe, who had everything going for him, would never kill himself over her, as his note implied, Sally demands some answers. She teams up with rugged Duke Spikowski, an old friend who's also a police detective, to investigate what looks like foul play. Soon Sally finds both suspicious evidence and unexpected romance closer to home than she ever dreamed possible.
Bumped Off in Baltmore
Since the tragic day when she shot her abusive cop husband in self defense, dyslexic Toni Credella has been barely scratching out a living. To make ends meet Toni plays bodyguard to a beautiful opera singer with underworld connections and a violent boyfriend. When that boyfriend threatens Toni she knows she's in trouble again. Add a murdered activist socialite, a contract killer, a disappearing uncle, and a suspicious homicide detective to the evil mix and Toni realizes that if she's going to stay alive in Mysterious Baltimore she has to make sense of this mess before it messes her up for good.
Malpractice
Ex-Pinkerton and ex-Union sharpshooter Oliver Redcastle is hired to find a kidnaped boy. His search takes him to the mean streets of Baltimore in 1884 and the dangerous harbor where many unwary immigrants are sacrificed in the "Oyster Wars." To save a child Oliver must confront grave-robbers, mediums, unscrupulous physicians, a mad scientist and the "ghost of an old love." Before his mission is complete he even has to outshoot Annie Oakley.
Buried in Baltimore
When Toni Credella teams up with a tough private investigator in hopes of getting her own PI license, she finds herself investigating one crime too many. What's the connection between the murder of a homeless woman and a young girl who met a mysterious death decades earlier?
Greenfire
At her first testing at the sacred pool of her ancestors, Reawen learns she must steal back the green stone that confirms her mystical power. Cheated of her birthright as Domis of the Peninsula's waters, Reawen sets off to trick Brone, the ruthless, golden-haired ruler who stole the sacred stones of the four Domi. The beautiful young water goddess finds herself embroiled in a struggle for conquest between wizards and princes.
Burned in Baltimore
Toni Credella wants a decent home of her own. Instead, she gets "Metal Men," a drive-by shooting, a puzzling death by fire, a mysterious faucet, two hunky men vying for her favor and more flack from her family. Is Toni up to the challenge? You needed to ask?
The Dress Circle
When beautiful, 18-year-old Valeska Wolff discovers she is pregnant, she turns to the powerful choreographer who can propel her to instant stardom--rather than to the father of her child. But 20 years later, she finds she must make difficult decisions to bring love back into her life.
Gunshy
It's 1882 and Oliver Redcastle, an ex-Pinkerton detective and a former Union Army sharpshooter, has inherited a house in Baltimore and a new daughter. Oliver dreams of putting his violent past behind him. When John D. Rockefeller forces him to investigate a railway explosion Oliver finds himself plunged into mayhem once again. The plot thickens when a Civil War encampment in the city digs up old betrayals, triggers death and breeds a fresh murder plot that Oliver must foil to prevent his future from becoming as bloody as his past.