Lydia Proctor Mysteries : Using Genealogy to Solve Mysteries of the Past...

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Welcome to the website of Laurie Pooler Pelayo and her alter-ego Lydia Proctor.
You'll learn about Lydia's adventures in the genealogy/murder mystery field as well as learn a little more about her creator Laurie.
There are hints and tips, just pick a topic to your left and take a gander.
Who knows you may decide to become a genealogist when you're done!

Book Signing in El Segundo!

El Segundo Author Fair

June 6th at 3:45-4:45

El Segundo Public Library

111 W. Mariposa Ave.

El Segundo, CA

A Commitment to Murder

Available through www.Amazon.com and www.BBOTW.com

Lydia Proctor is back on the case - genealogy that is. This time it's at the request of a Tri-Cities society founding member. When Jackie Grier asks Lydia to help solve a family dispute, Lydia takes the task on reluctantly. Patience becomes a virtue when Lydia has to appease Jackie and try to solve her family history problem the "right" way.

Murder, as she eventually learns, comes in many forms, both in the past and the present.

As always Lydia has the support of her good friends, Faye, Muriel and Julia.
Join them as they make A Commitment to Murder.

ISBN: 0-7414-5302-9 - $15.95

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The First in a series: An Old Fashioned Murder
by Laurie Pooler Pelayo

When Lydia Proctor, working mother, volunteer librarian and for hire genealogist gets an unexpected phone call her life changes. For her genealogy is a fact finding mission, with an occasional skeleton now and then. But she learns that some families contain just a few more skeletons than others when she's hired to solve a one-hundred year old crime. Did Julia’s grandfather really kill his wives or was it someone else? With the help of Lydia’s good friends Faye and Muriel, clues keep pouring in until the real murderer is discovered. It’s a challenge trying to solve An Old Fashioned Murder.

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ISBN: 0-7414-3579-9; ISBN 13: 978-0-7414-3579-8
$15.95; (Trade Paperback)

...Welcome to the world of Lydia, Muriel, Faye and Julia

Meet the Characters

Click here to read Reviews for An Old Fashioned Murder!

Poster Child 2008

April 17, 2008

READ 2008 Celebrity
It was an honor to share my love
of reading and genealogy with
others in celebration of Libraries Week.

**Would you like to share Lydia's case study with other genealogists or cozy mystery buffs?

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Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Technical glitch

Well I got this site up and running after the IT department corrected an address glitch. I felt so much better because I had been trying to upload this site for a week and was getting quite frustrated. No more.

I hope it's pleasing to the eye and the print is large enough. I tried to keep the font small so you didn't have to scroll so much. For those who are blind or impatient - I'm really sorry.

As for the book. The wheels are in motion. I should be hearing from Infinity within the next few weeks and let's only hope that I have better luck with this than I have had with Body in Paradise!

Thanks to all of you for your support. I will be adding content to the page as often as I can and even including more genealogical hints and tips...

5:26 pm pdt

Thursday, August 24, 2006

Up and running

Well here's my webpage. It is under construction so there will be lots more coming soon. My book has been sent for printing, so I should have my first proof ready in about 6 weeks. I can't wait to see how it looks when it's finished.

I am actually editing my second in the series (with help from my editing guru Christian Lozada), that book is titled "A Commitment to Murder." I have actually started, and gotten through writing two-thirds of the third in the series "A Case Study in Murder". All of the Lydia Proctor series is based on genealogy.

Now before you start in that genealogy is for old people or it's boring, please give these novels a chance. It is a niche cozy using genealogy to solve a crime from the past. When a traditional cozy is written the main character looks for clues to solve the mystery, just in other ways - police department, neighbors, relatives, the murder scene and so on. I just use things like: Court records, vital records, diaries, journals, merchant records, bible records and so on (and living people too!).

So I hope that you'll set those pre-conceived notions aside and give Lydia and her friends Muriel, Faye and Julia a chance to see that genealogy can be interesting and fun...well it is a murder...maybe not all fun!

3:40 pm pdt

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