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Missy Jenkins is a thirty-four-year-old piano teacher who lives in a fictional neighborhood called Twin Pines, located on the outskirts of the very real town of Middletown, Pennsylvania. She's married to hunky construction worker Dick Jenkins, and has two rambunctious boys, ten-year-old Alan and six-year-old Jimmy. Missy has her faults: she snoops; she talks to herself; she's impulsive; sometimes she has trouble with her temper. Missy's strengths are her love for the children; her loyalty; her curiosity; her tenacity; her ability to improvise.

Suzanne Flaig lives in Phoenix, Arizona. She is the author of four Missy Jenkins novels: Terror in Double Time, Death in 3/4 Time, Killing in Quarter Time, and her latest Missy Jenkins mystery, Murder in Measured Time. Killing in Quarter Time received the Best Fiction Award at the 2017 Cirque du Livre Writers Conference.

Her short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, both print and online. Her recent short story, "Night Blindness," appears in the 2023 anthology So West: Wrong Turn (DS Publishing.) She has also published nonfiction articles on a variety of subjects, including music, writing and roller skating.

Suzanne has published two books of original short stories: Thrilled to Death, featuring "flash fiction" stories, and longer mystery/suspense stories, Deadly Droplets. She is a member of the Desert Sleuths Chapter of Sisters in Crime, Triangle Chapter of Sisters in Crime, the Mesa Writers Guild, the Valley of the Sun Chapter of the Society of Southwestern Authors, and a member of the Short Mystery Fiction Society. Suzanne is currently working on a new mystery series, based in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with an Amish woman as her protagonist.

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Books by Suzanne by Suzanne Flaig is a freelance writing, editing and book consulting service. Suzanne provides editing and other writing services, including writing query letters and synopses and formatting manuscripts. She has published her own books as well as those of other writers on sites such as Kindle Direct Publishing. Besides private clients, her editing credentials include serving as co-editor for several anthologies, and eight years as co-editor and co-founder of Red Coyote Press, a small press located in Phoenix, AZ specializing in mystery fiction. Suzanne is also available for speaking engagements to Book Clubs and Organizations. Contact her for topics and information at sueflaig@hotmail.com.

Suzanne (Yoder) Flaig grew up in Reading, Pennsylvania, the middle daughter of "Doc" and Charlotte Yoder, managers of the Sinking Springs Skatarena. She competed in both artistic and speed skating events there until age sixteen, when the family moved to Middletown, PA where her parents owned The Gold Skate. When her mother passed away in 1977, Suzanne and her husband, Paul, ran the rink for thirteen years where Sue taught and coached skating. She started taking piano lessons at age six, and organ lessons at age nine, on the Hammond organ at the roller rink. While raising her children, she taught piano and organ lessons out of her home studio.