Fisher’s debut novel combines love of mysteries and horses

Author to sign copies May 20 at Renaissance Center bookstore

Release Date: 5/6/2005. Expired: 5/20/2005

Marilyn M. Fisher has combined her love for horses and mysteries into her debut novel, The Case of the Three Dead Horses, published March 1 by American Book Publishing.

The Franklin resident will sign copies of her book 5:30-7 p.m. May 20 at the Virtually Unlimited Bookstore in The Renaissance Center in Dickson.

The Virginia-based mystery novel is about the deaths of three high-dollar horses and equine insurance investigator Connie Holt’s efforts to find the killer.

“Long ago I read about a veterinarian who, after performing a necropsy, knew the horse had been murdered but couldn’t prove it,” Fisher said. “Further research into this crime led me to wonder what would happen in a horse community if someone was murdering horses and the suspects were friends and clients of the equine investigator who had to discover the identity of the killer.”

A native of Buffalo, New York, Fisher moved to Virginia as an adult and lived in Lynchburg for 11 years before moving to Franklin, Tenn., in 2000. She has been an English professor in New York, Virginia and Tennessee and teaches college writing as an adjunct professor at O’More College of Design.

She specialized in 17th- and 19th-century American literature and wrote literary criticism and articles for newsletters and newspapers. She is a member of Franklin’s Council for the Written Word, which supports writers in Williamson County, and chaired the council’s 2002 and ’03 writers’ conferences.

Fisher also is a member of the American Horse Council, Tennessee Horse Council, Scottish Society and The Heritage Foundation, as well as an advocate for the protection of horses.

“This is the real, raw deal in the horse world,” Tom Burris, former editor of the Mid-South Horse Review, writes about The Case of the Three Dead Horses. “Fisher’s fast-paced investigative thriller is hard to put down.”

“A fine effort that readily holds its own with the works of Barbara McMichaels and Mary Higgins Clark,” says Laura J. Underwood, author of Ard Magister, Chronicles of the Last War and Dragon’s Tongue. “Connie Holt is a vividly realistic woman who is thrown into a web of deceit and danger.”

For more information on Marilyn M. Fisher’s debut novel, visit www.mmfisher.com. For more information on her book signing at the Virtually Unlimited Bookstore, call (615) 740-5600 or visit The Renaissance Center’s Web site at www.rcenter.org.

The Renaissance Center is an arts and technology education and performing arts center at 855 Highway 46 South in Dickson, just 35 miles west of Nashville on Interstate 40 at exit 172.