Member Since:
Dec. 08, 2022
Zara Brooks-Watson
Biography
Zara Brooks-Watson (Cathy Smith) lives in northern Maine near the Canadian border writing cozy novels, poetry (on Kindle), taking photographs (for the poetry) and editing her short stories from the Nineties (of which she has many). She lives in a farming (rural) area watching the wildlife -- recently foxes, weasels and cardinals -- and the ubiquitous coyote. She has a wonderful rescued Yorkshire terrier named Sparky, supports third world and other animal rescue organizations online and has owned quite a few amazing dogs and cats.
She also writes under two pseudonyms -- Zara Brooks-Watson and Sophia Watson (cozy mysteries). She has a few book websites -- silverlakemysteries.weebly.com -- jitterbug-watson.weebly.com -- zarabrookswatson.weebly.com and appleciderpoetry.weebly.com -- She authors the Silver Lake Cozy Mystery Series and the Bonaventura Cozy Mysteries -- samples of these books and links to online downloads are on the above websites. She attended Boston University and Harvard.
She also writes under two pseudonyms -- Zara Brooks-Watson and Sophia Watson (cozy mysteries). She has a few book websites -- silverlakemysteries.weebly.com -- jitterbug-watson.weebly.com -- zarabrookswatson.weebly.com and appleciderpoetry.weebly.com -- She authors the Silver Lake Cozy Mystery Series and the Bonaventura Cozy Mysteries -- samples of these books and links to online downloads are on the above websites. She attended Boston University and Harvard.
Series
Tie Dye
Books
Jitterbug
by Zara Brooks-Watson
Series: Bonaventura Cozy Mysteries, Book 1.
Price:
Free!
Words: 97,560.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: October 23, 2017
by
Zara Brooks-Watson.
Categories:
Fiction » Coming of age, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Humor & comedy » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Cozy
It was an entirely different world in Fifties' America. Enter here ... dance with us. Vincente Bonaventura, an Italian gentleman farmer/tailor from the bayous of Louisiana sets out, after his beloved wife dies of Cholera, to make his fortune in something other than farming. His mother offers to raise his newborn daughter, Julietta. He refuses and insists on taking her with him. He becomes a...
Tie Dye
by Zara Brooks-Watson
Series: Bonaventura Cozy Mysteries, Book 2.
Price:
Free!
Words: 56,970.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: October 24, 2017
by
Zara Brooks-Watson.
Categories:
Fiction, Fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Historical » General, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Cozy
This is the story of two runaway teenagers in love in the Sixties. Tie Dye is a fashion, an industry and the baby of the Sixties. Julietta Bonaventura is a hippie entrepreneur selling her incense, occasional ounce of pot, legal hallucinogens and handmade tie dye in Grant Park, downtown Chicago. Don't be shocked LSD was legal for a while in the Sixties. During which marijuana wasn't! Grant Park...