Adult Books by Kim Batchelor

Children's Books

• The Mists of Na Crainn

• Golondrina and the White Butterflies

Adult Novels

• Maryam: An Imagined Life (in progress)

• Shaun Vega mystery series

   

Maryam, An Imagined Life

An old story. A woman we thought we knew so well, or didn't really know at all.

An ear from heaven tipped toward earth as each sound at day’s end told a story. The ferocious growls and pained squeals of dogs tore the silence with jagged teeth. Shouts laced with new wine came from men who crowded together instead of finding a place to rest.

More to come

Shaun Vega Mystery Series

When Lara Shaunnassey Vega was four years old, an unknown gunman murdered her father, an immigrant from Mexico, in front of her childhood home. Her mother supported her young daughter by becoming a stripper, until a betrayal drove Shaun away. With help, Shaun rejected the lure of drugs, alcohol and the streets to pursue a career as a police officer and then a detective. But her past is never really past, and she frequently encounters echoes of it in the cases that come her way.

"A dark haze cloaked the mirrored and chrome buildings of downtown, visible in the distance as Miguel Antonio Avila trudged along the busy four-lane road at dusk. Like spent breath from a smoker’s lungs, the thick air pressed in on his lean body as he walked, felt heavy as he drew it in." (Tattooed Everything)