Sarah Wisseman

Biography

Sarah Wisseman is a retired archaeologist. Her experience working on excavations and in museums inspired two contemporary series, the Lisa Donahue Archaeological Mysteries and the Flora Garibaldi Art History Mysteries. Her settings are places where she has lived or traveled (Israel, Italy, Egypt, Massachusetts, and Illinois) and her favorite museum used to be housed in a creepy old attic at the University of Illinois.

She lives in Champaign, IL, with her husband and two cats.

Where to find Sarah Wisseman online

Books

Good for What Ails You
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 7,380. Language: English. Published: September 12, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical
Ben Keck and his girlfriend Anna seek for answers when a friend drops dead during a speakeasy raid in 1920s Big Grove, Illinois. Did Carley consume toxic bootleg liquor or was she deliberately poisoned by someone else?
Death on Display
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 5,080. Language: English. Published: September 1, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural
An archaeologist and physician recreate an Egyptian mummy using a modern cadaver and ancient embalming methods. Then they put the finished mummy on display at an international conference reception...what could possibly go wrong?
Malice Archaeological
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 6,430. Language: English. Published: April 9, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
Cathy loves everything Italian, but working on an archaeological dig in the Tuscan hills turns out to be more stressful than she’d imagined. Close quarters and professional jealousies cause friction among her fellow students, and then a harmless prank turns dangerous when forged ceramics appear in one of the trenches.
Catacomb
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 66,210. Language: English. Published: April 1, 2016 by Wings ePress, Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense
An art conservator joins her policeman boyfriend in a perilous search under the city of Rome for a lost trove of Nazi-looted art.
The Dead Sea Codex
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 53,070. Language: English. Published: December 1, 2015 by Wings ePress, Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense
Two archaeologists working in Israel race to find an ancient manuscript about the teaching of Jesus’ female disciples before Christian fanatics destroy them.
The Fall of Augustus
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 60,890. Language: English. Published: January 14, 2014 by Wings ePress, Inc.. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
When Victor Fitzgerald is killed by a falling statue, Lisa Donahue becomes Interim Director of her Boston University museum.. Suddenly she’s juggling murder, artifact theft, and a complicated move into a new building. Then the treacherous Dean announces her replacement: a vicious woman from Lisa’s past…
Bound for Eternity
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 72,500. Language: English. Published: June 5, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
Disappearing artifacts, jealous colleagues, and dead bodies—who says a museum curator’s job is easy? Archaeologist Lisa Donahue discovers that an Egyptian mummy holds the clues to two murders in her Boston Museum.