Author Name: W. T. O’Brien
Book Genre: Detective fiction, murder mystery
Age range: This is an adult novel but suitable for mature teens age 16+
Trigger warnings: Homicide
Author Bio:
W.T. O’Brien is a lifelong resident of the Pacific Northwest. He attended school in Seattle and after high-school enrolled at the University of Washington, majoring in billiards and games of chance. After graduating cum laude without a degree, he began a series of menial jobs and failed schemes, which did little to enhance him financially, but added a great deal of spice to his experience. During this time, he considered his occupation to be as a professional pool player, an oxymoron, even though he almost never performed in that pursuit. Eventually he managed to land a real job, working in the Health Sciences department back at the University of Washington. After twenty-five enjoyable years, he retired. He considered that his modest retirement party, attended entirely by college professors, was a tribute to a successful career as a research consultant.
Over the years, Mr. O’Brien has written short stories, poetry, and screenplays.
The Arboretum After Midnight is his third novel. It is a murder mystery centered around the interior design community in 1990’s Seattle.
Book Title: The Arboretum After Midnight
Book Synopsis:
Whitney Colliers is an astonishingly beautiful woman. Moving amongst creative people, and fronting a well-known design studio, she has plenty of admirers and almost as many lovers. A tease to everyone, she delivers on her advertising.
Beautiful, admired, but not well loved. There are plenty of people with a grudge against Whitney. After creating her usual friction at a party, she takes a ride to a local park to give her dog a run.
It’s just after midnight.
The next morning a jogger comes upon her body, tangled in her dog’s lead and sprawled in a rockery. It looks like a tragic accident, but rookie detective Roscoe Romar quickly concludes that it’s murder.
