Computer Crime Novels Looking for a Home

I’m looking for an agent/publisher for my three novels, all of which deal with computer crime on some level. Non-technical enough for your maiden aunt to enjoy. Bleeding-edge enough for thrill-addicted mainstream readers.


World of Mirrors is a psychological suspense novel set in the chaos that is East Germany in the year after the wall goes down, five years after The Lives of Others. The country is not yet reunited. When American hi-tech guru Zara Gray is blackmailed into hunting down stolen computer secrets, the search leads her to a Baltic island—and a deadly encounter with a sociopath. Her partner in the hunt is old boyfriend TK Drummond, a failed spy with no reason to love her and every reason to betray her. Double-crossed by everyone, Zara and T.K. must rely on a software thief and a North Vietnamese “guest laborer” to sail them to safety as they play a nautical game of cat and mouse through the shipping lanes of the fog-shrouded Baltic. (96,000 words)

Promiscuous Mode, a cozy with an edge,riffs on the the age-old theme, “a stranger comes to town.” First in the Emma Lee Devens computer crime sleuth series. 106,000 words

What do you do if the boss doesn’t know you’ve accepted a new consulting gig to work under cover in the Northwoods and you leave an “I’m outtahere” note for your husband and no note all for your boyfriend and then the guy who just hired you turns up murdered and there is no Plan B? If you’re Emma Lee Devens, you put your head down and drive an old Datsun pickup into DuBois, Wisconsin, determined to get to the bottom of the computer crime that you’ve been hired to solve. You realize the Northwoods aren’t the sylvan retreat you wanted, and you look over your shoulder for the bad guys while snooping around the office in the middle of the night, and trying to get the lay of the land by lunching with “the girls” at the Coffee Pot Café, bass fishing with the bigwigs, and drinking with the locals at Nub’s Pub. You adopt a stray cat because you’re lonely. The stress level skyrockets when your husband and boyfriend turn up importuning you on alternate weekends, a bad guy kidnaps the cat, and another body drops. You ramp up your powers of analysis and deduction to solve the computer crime and to unmask the murderer. You donate the Datsun to charity and trudge home for one of many reconciliations with your impossible husband. And then you’re off again to solve another computer crime and crash into even crazier adventures in Festival Madness. 106,000 words*

Promiscuous mode, in computer related fields, is refers to the practice of putting a small hardware device into a setting so that it passes all traffic it receives to the computer rather than just information specifically addressed to it. In my novel, the term is meaningful on several levels.

Festival Madness, second in the Emma Lee Devens computer crime sleuth series.
103,000 words.
Someone is killing three reformed hackers who share a shameful secret dating to their days at MIT. The first murder occurs at a folk music festival in the Berkshires, the second in Reno at a Burning Man decompression party and the third? The only hacker still standing is Wayne Wendel, master geek and friend of Emma Lee Devens. Emma is determined to save her best friend, but it won’t be easy. Not only does Wayne refuse to confide his secret, but he keeps disappearing. Once Emma tumbles to the murderer, she races to save Wayne from a watery grave in an Adirondack Lake. Will she get there in time?