Local couple to release new detective novel

Courtesy photoThe next Skylar Drake Mystery, “Gametown” is the fifth and last book in the series by Janet Elizabeth Lynn and Will Zeilinger, will be available April 15, 2019 and yes...we are still married!

The local writing duo of Janet Elizabeth Lynn and Will Zeilinger recently announced the release of “Gametown,” their latest and final in their Skylar Drake Mystery series. The couple lives in Long Beach. Will grew up in the area, having attended high school in Huntington Beach.

The book is the latest from the married authors and it follows private investigator Skylar Drake, who is hired as a bodyguard for two young starlets. He delivers them home after the 1957 Emmy Awards ceremony, but stumbles onto the murder of Silver Brovor-Smith, the mother of one of his charges. He wonders why the FBI is on-scene for a simple murder.

Drake and his partner are now on the case as suspicion shifts between the victim’s husband and her three brothers.

Drake and Dolan are misled while kidnapping and mysterious deaths take them into the world of Hollywood backroom deals.

They must keep the high-profile family from becoming front page news.

Drake meets the perfect woman to help him move on, but is she a suspect?

The letters P-E-G-O seem to appear everywhere. He thinks they may be connected to the crimes. Follow Skylar Drake to Hollywood parties where the forbidden is accepted and games played are for keeps.

These published authors say they wrote individually until they got together and created the Skylar Drake Mystery Series. These hard-boiled tales are based in old Hollywood of 1956-57.  Janet has published seven mystery novels and Will has three plus a couple of short stories. Their world travels have sparked several ideas for murder and crime stories. This creative couple is married and live in Southern Californi