After two months on Facebook, I had yet to post a picture or write what was on my mind. My profile didn’t declare my relationship status or where I lived because those things had recently changed, rather abruptly, but inspiration finally struck on a crisp cool day in October. I found a dead girl floating in the marsh behind my house.

- from KILLER ON THE WALL by Wendy Eckel
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Author Wendy Eckel joined Author Salon in October, 2011, and worked closely with AS editors, including advisory editors Penny Warner and Ken Atchity, to hone her "social media cozy" novel, KILLER ON THE WALL, into a competitive manuscript that was just signed by AEI FILMS AND BOOKS in Los Angeles. Wendy's KILLER ON THE WALL (formerly CLASS ACT) was an award winner in the Maryland Writer’s Association Mystery Novel Contest, and her other novel, LIAM, a semifinalist in the Amazon.Com next breakthrough novel competition.

KILLER ON THE WALL

Rosalie Hart discovers the body of a dead girl floating in the marsh behind her house. The law sees it their way, but too many things don’t add up. Determined to find answers, and feeling lost after having exiled herself in small town Maryland, she begins her own investigation, and with the help of a Facebook group composed of amateur sleuths known as "The What Ifs," she begins the search for evidence and clues. After friending suspects on Facebook and working with a nervous programmer living in mortal fear of Mark Zuckerberg, she hacks into the dead girl's Facebook account and assumes her identity, only to discover a dark underbelly to what had originally seemed a charmed and effortless life ...

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