Elizabeth Holt first appeared in Death By The Sea and one of the best ways to learn about a person is by asking questions, so let’s get to know Liz.

What is your name?
Liz (Elizabeth) Amelia Holt.

How old are you?
28

What is your profession?
Novelist. Author of Let the Wind Roar, and An American in Cornwall.

Do you have a significant other?
Yes.

What is his name and profession?
Ryan Stone/Former Brooklyn FDNY arson investigator and currently a private investigator.

Any children?
No.

Do you have any sibling(s)?
No.

Do your parents live near you?
Mother deceased when I was age five. Attorney Father lives nearby.

Who is your best friend?
Kate Fields, owner of Books & Browsery by the Sea.

Cats, dogs or other pets?
Kitten named Bronte.

What town do you live in?
Melbourne Beach, Florida.

House or building complex? Own or Rent?
Beach house. Own.

What is your favorite spot in your house?
Window seat with a view of the Atlantic Ocean.

Favorite meal? Favorite dessert?
Anything prepared by my surrogate grandfather and our hotel’s classically trained French chef Pierre Montague.

Favorite hobby?
Reading mysteries.

Favorite color?
Turquoise.

Favorite vacation spot?
Our barrier island.

Favorite sports team?
Florida Marlins.

Movies or Broadway?
Old movies from the 1960s I watch with my great-aunt.

Are you a morning or a night person?
Morning.

Amateur sleuth or professional?
Amateur.

Whom do you work with when sleuthing?
Ryan Stone (P.I.) and eighty-year-old Betty Lawson (Nancy Drew ghostwriter).

In a few sentences, what is a typical day in your life like?
I usually get up at early to watch the sun rise over the ocean while sipping coffee on my deck. Most mornings I go to my family’s hotel and share breakfast with my attorney father, great-aunt, Chef Pierre, and Barnacle Bob, Auntie’s obnoxious Macaw. Following breakfast, I go up to the hotel’s bell tower to work on my current novel, and for lunch, I usually meet my boyfriend Ryan at his grandfather’s gourmet deli and coffee bar. Then back to my beach house to edit what I’ve written. After dinner, I usually go to the hotel’s screening room and watch one of my eighty-year-old flamboyant great-aunt’s mid-century television shows, most of which she starred in as character actress, including the vampire-themed soap Dark Shadows. That is a typical day, but I’ve learned to play it by ear, depending on what’s happening back at the Indialantic by the Sea Hotel and Emporium. You see we’ve had more than our fair share of murders.

You can read about Liz in Murder by the Sea, the third book in the “By the Sea” cozy mystery series, coming May 21, 2019.

When a murderer crashes a masquerade ball, it’s up to Liz to unmask the killer . . .

It’s been quite a year for novelist Liz Holt. She’s overcome a lot and is finally feeling at peace with her new life at her family’s hotel, the Indialantic by the Sea, on the beautiful barrier island of Melbourne Beach, Florida. She’s exactly where she needs to be to ring in the New Year at the Florida Writes Literary Masquerade Ball.

But when her ex-boyfriend surprises her at the ball, she can’t disguise her anger, and the two engage in a very public argument. Naturally, after her ex is found dead on the hotel grounds, shot through the heart, Liz tops the suspect list. With the help of family and friends, she needs to clear her name before the real killer waltzes away scot-free . . .

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About the author
National Bestselling author Kathleen Bridge started her writing career at the Michigan State News in East Lansing, Michigan. She is the author of the A By the Sea Mystery Series: Death by the Sea, A killing by the Sea, and Murder by the Sea published by Lyrical Underground/Kensington Publishing. She is also the author of the Hamptons Home and Garden Mysteries from Berkley: Better Homes and Corpses, Hearse and Gardens, Ghostal Living, and Hamptons Scream House, coming in the summer 2019. Kathleen is a member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime and blissfully lives on a barrier island in Florida.

To learn more about Kathleen, visit her website at kathleenbridge.com, or on Facebook, or on Twitter, or on Instagram.

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