death is Always With Us

About the Book

This book, death is Always With Us, is the fifth to be published in a series of John Holmes Johnson mysteries.  It looks back at the background of John Holmes in order to clarify who he is and the key role played by an interesting roster of characters.during his childhood.

These are the people, places and experiences that created the rare blend of characteristics that identify the man himself.  He was born in London, raised in the South Downs between Lewes and Dover.  The bright, inquisitive boy grew to be an intelligent, curious investigator of all sorts of mysteries.  His boyhood is fraught with peril as he watches his family go through many man-instigated hells in the course of nine years.

The nature of this book is such that it could quite easily have served as a Pre-quel to death is Belligerent, however, John Holmes himself pieced this material together, using notes left to him by his late Uncle John.  Death is Always With Us is a unique mixture of personalities come together on a wide variety of life and death struggles, whose very scars built stronger than strong ties.  You will meet them all in this book.

About the Author

The author has written short stories and poetry since early childhood, most were destroyed as she had little confidence in its literary value.  Her writings helped her through a difficult childhood.  The family suffered multiple deaths, including her parents.  She and her siblings were raised by the only surviving grandparent, the maternal grandmother.

After working at Hallmark Cards for five years, she attended and graduated from Kansas University with a Master's degree in Education.  She became a career art teacher and is to this day.  Her experiences include teacher of Infants and Toddler for the University of Missouri, all grades at the Elementary and Secondary level, and Community College in Kansas City, Kansas.  She is currently an Adjunct Professor at Davis College in New York's Southern Tier, where she is in her seventh year.

Her life has been devoted to children of all ages, not only as a teacher, but as a mother to two adopted and twenty-three Foster Children.

Needless to say, children play important roles in her mysteries. although her books are not meant for children.

She has published four mysteries to date and a book of Poetry, Dueling Sisters: seasons of change, a joint effort with her sister, Carolyn M. Headrick.

Her other four mysteries feature an Englishman, John Holmes Johnson, living in Kansas City Missouri; this book traces his beginning.

She is not through yet.