Multi-award winning author, Heather Haven, writes humorous, noir, and romantic mysteries, short stories, and plays. The San Francisco Book Review calls her critically acclaimed Alvarez Family Murder Mysteries set in today's Silicon Valley, "Strong work in the genre of the mystery/thriller." Heather's first novel, Murder is a Family Business, began the Alvarez Family Series, winning the Single Titles Reviewers' Choice Award 2011. The second, A Wedding to Die For, was both a 2012 Global and EPIC finalist for Best eBook Mystery of the Year. Death Runs in the Family won the Global Gold for Best Mystery Novel, 2013. DEAD....If Only won the Global Silver for Best Mystery Novel, 2015. The CEO Came DOA, debuted September, 2016, won the Global Gold Medal Best Mystery Fiction 2017 and the Dan Poynter's Legacy Award Best Fiction 2017. The Persephone Cole Vintage Mysteries, dubbed "the perfect mystery" by Dan Poyntner's Global Ebook Awards, is set in Manhattan circa 1942, our country's entrance into WWII. Book One of the Persephone Cole Vintage Mystery Series, The Dagger Before Me, was voted best historical mystery novel by Amazon readers in October, 2013. It was followed by Iced Diamonds. Book Three, The Chocolate Kiss-Off, was winner of Global Silver 2016 as well as a LEFTY Finalist for Best Historical Mystery. As the daughter of real-life Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus folk, Heather's proudest achievement is winning the Silver IPPY for Best Mystery/thriller 2014 for Death of a Clown. During the golden age of the circus, her mother was a trapeze artist/performer and father, an elephant trainer. Heather brings the daily existence of the Big Top to life, embellished by her own murderous imagination. Corliss and Other Award Winning Stories is an anthology of her favorite short stories, short shorts, and flash fiction. Her most recent endeavor is Honeymoons Can Be Murder, A Novelette, Book One of the Lee Alvarez Mysteries, a spinoff of the Alvarez Family Murder Mysteries.
