Hazel Dawkins

Eye Sleuth: a Yoko Kamimura Mystery Hazel Dawkins

Publisher Marketing: Dr. Yoko Kamimura's safe, predictable routine as a behavioral optometrist at the College of Optometry in New York is shattering. When the stranger who comes up to Yoko on East 23rd Street and warns her of danger is shot to death, safe and predictable switches to murder and mayhem. The very next day, there's a catastrophe at the iconic National Arts Club and Yoko's godmother is left in a coma after a vicious attack. Frustrated by the dismissive attitude of Detective Dan Riley at the 13th precinct, Yoko vows to turn sleuth, but work and bizarre events keep her scrambling. Not even a prestigious conference 3,000 miles away in England in the tranquil coastal city of Bournemouth and a visit to Christchurch's 11th century priory are havens for Yoko. Now she is in the killer's cross-hairs and the chase is on...in and around the Gramercy Park area, sometimes at No. 34, New York's first coop building, sometimes at the abandoned Quaker Meeting House and eventually at the famous Pete's Tavern. Praise for Eye Sleuth: "Optometrist and epicurean Yoko Kamimura is a likable heroine who fights with her head and occasionally with her fists. Readers will learn much about behavioral optometry through Yoko's sleuthing exploits in the Big Apple and England." --Naomi Hirahara, Edgar winner and Author of the Mas Arai series Contributor Bio:  Dawkins, Hazel Hazel Dawkins, an editor-writer who started out in London's newspaper world, has worked in Paris and New York and now is based in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Her factual books on behavioral optometry, a specialty in optometry that is available in forty countries, are published by (and available from) the Optometric Extension Program Foundation in California, the professional organization for optometrists (http: //www.oepf.org/). Eye Wit is the second Dr. Yoko Kamimura mystery. The intrepid behavioral optometrist and sleuth was introduced in Hazel's first mystery, Eye Sleuth, a cozier read, also set in New York City. Dennis Berry's career as a writer includes stints with the U. S. Forest Service, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, architecture and engineering firms in the Pacific Northwest, the Royal Saudi Navy and the Saudi Aramco oil company in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and The Boeing Company in Seattle. Journalism credits include feature articles for the Daily Astorian in Astoria, Oregon and the Chinook Observer in Long Beach, Washington. Works of fiction, besides Eye Wit, include Mommie Dearest, an Andy Eastman novel, and Papa Doc, another Andy Eastman novel to be published in 2012. Dennis enjoys life with a diminutive yet stalwart badger hound in Oregon's tsunami zone near the mouth of the mighty Columbia River. Both authors' books are available at: http: //www.murderprose.com. Contributor Bio:  Berry, Dennis Hazel Dawkins, an editor-writer who started out in London's newspaper world, has worked in Paris and New York and now is based in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Her factual books on behavioral optometry, a specialty in optometry that is available in forty countries, are published by (and available from) the Optometric Extension Program Foundation in California, the professional organization for optometrists (http: //www.oepf.org/). Eye Wit is the second Dr. Yoko Kamimura mystery. The intrepid behavioral optometrist and sleuth was introduced in Hazel's first mystery, Eye Sleuth, a cozier read, also set in New York City. Dennis Berry's career as a writer includes stints with the U. S. Forest Service, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, architecture and engineering firms in the Pacific Northwest, the Royal Saudi Navy and the Saudi Aramco oil company in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and The Boeing Company in Seattle. Journalism credits include feature articles for the Daily Astorian in Astoria, Oregon and the Chinook Observer in Long Beach, Washington. Works of fiction, besides Eye Wit, include Mommie Dearest, an Andy Eastman novel, and Papa Doc, another Andy Eastman novel to be published in 2012. Dennis enjoys life with a diminutive yet stalwart badger hound in Oregon's tsunami zone near the mouth of the mighty Columbia River. Both authors' books are available at: http: //www.murderprose.com.