Today Wild Women Authors is focused on Connie Murphy and a few of the cases she becomes involved in over the course of her duties as a senior investigator with the Food and Drug Administration. As her creator, BarbaraHelene Smith likes to say, “ Each story is based on real FDA cases with the names changed to protect the guilty.”
· Cheat To Win: Connie
learns that her pre-approval inspection at Triple A Labs is suddenly and
unexpectedly cancelled. This is highly unusual because the company’s
investigational new drug application is nearing approval. Days later, Connie
discovers that Triple A’s application has been deleted from the FDA files, and
the FDA reviewer, who was working on the application, has disappeared. It’s
Connie’s job to find out what is going on.
·
Detour To Danger: Frank Allen’s wife dies after he purchased her medication on the
Internet. Connie must determine if the drug caused her untimely death and how
it was sold by an untraceable online organization. Her investigation tangles
with an ongoing Drug Enforcement Administration case and leads her to confront
drug traffickers in Bermuda.
· Bait And Switch: The Food and Drug Administration
receives an anonymous complaint about a company selling an unapproved and
potentially dangerous dietary supplement. Connie's inspection at the firm comes
up empty-handed. Along the way, she encounters everything from uncooperative
personnel to strange shipping practices. She must use her training and prowess
to find out how the manufacturer is concealing their illegal product.
BarbaraHelene
Smith is a woman of mysteries. Like most writers, she has a story to tell. Inspired by
intrigue, she uses her experience from academia, government and private
industry to plot suspense stories. The Connie Murphy Mysteries are based
on her seventeen years as an FDA investigator.
She belongs to several
writing groups: Lilac City Rochester Writers, Wild About Writing and Novel
Ideas. Her stories and poetry have been published in the Barnes and Noble’s
Halloween Anthologies (Horrendous Halloween, Howling Halloween, Hair
Raising Halloween), IdeaGems, The Storyteller, Adventures
of the Average Woman, Tough Lit, and Cruisin’ Style Magazine.
“Merry Christmas to You” won the May 2006 International Library of Poetry
Editor’s Choice Award.
BarbaraHelene also published Assume Nothing, four short mysteries about
ordinary women who find themselves in extraordinary situations while looking
for the truth. She is currently writing a contemporary mystery, Uprooting
the Family Tree.
When not writing,
she likes to travel,
hike with friends, work on genealogy, and volunteer at the local animal
shelter.
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