Author Description

Southern artist and author, Ellorine Cottingham Morgan, with her vivid imagination and ‘artist eye’ provides a delight for the senses in her deftly woven cozy mystery series with protagonist Bama Lee Cotter and her parrot Astrid. After a heartbreaking romance and a disillusioned move to California, young artist Bama Lee Cotter returns home to her sleepy southern town in an attempt to reassemble the pieces of her seemingly broken life. Single, living with her grandmother and spending all her free time running her small art studio made her feel as if her life was passing her by... But when a mysterious visitor appears at her window in the middle of the night, Bama’s humdrum life is forever changed. The artist falls into a complex vortex of murders, corruption and fraud. Only with the help of the town’s handsome chief of police and a talkative parrot, can Bama attempt to unravel the twisted crimes that have befallen her. As the sheriff and Bama work together, the artist realizes her hidden passions are gaining strength. Before the crimes are solved, Boone and the artist are in danger...