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.
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Who knows you may decide to become a genealogist when you're done!

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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

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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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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

One more year...one more book

So I took on another year as President for South Bay Cities Genealogical Society. Thanksgiving is right around the corner and everyone is preparing for Christmas. I have sold quite a few of my new title "A Commitment to Murder" and have gotten mostly positive feed back from the readers. Now I need to get cracking to publicize it. But first I have to clean up SBCGS binders, my sewing room so I can finish some scrapbook pages I started almost a month ago, plus finish re-entering the periodicals list that was lost when my harddrive crashed.

When do popular authors have time to travel, sign books and publicize their work? Especially for early writers who get small royalty checks and still have to keep their day job? I need a year without work just to catch up on my life!

In the meantime...there are copies of both of my titles available on Amazon or through Buy the Books on the Web. Check them out! Whether you're a genealogist or not I think you'll appreciate them!

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