The game is afoot One-time Virden resident Sarah Yates has been murdering characters for more than 20 years. Finally, she’s been caught.
Her latest murder mystery, Playing a Deadly Patent Game, published by Texas Indie publisher, Black Rose Writing, will be in Virden to read and answer questions at the Border Regional Library
Thursday, June 25 at 7 p.m.
Sarah Yates and her fictional heroine Virginia Hopper share several common experiences.
Like Sarah, Virginia begins her writing career in Montreal, writing softcore pornography. In Playing a Deadly Patent Game, Virginia is sent to Manhattan by her boss - Mrs. Louise Young - to
deliver a document to her brother Gilles Roberts.
While Virginia is having dinner with Roberts’ assistant - Felix Cortavista - Felix is brutally murdered. Virginia stays in the city to help unravel the murder.
Gilles Roberts is a patent lawyer whose major client - Dr. Robin Richards - has discovered a genetic adhesive used in hip replacement operations, potentially worth millions of dollars. From naked bodies, Virginia is immediately immersed in trocanters, patellas and other body parts. In over her head, Virginia sets out to investigate: who was Felix Cortavista and why was he murdered?
Viginia uncovers more than Gilles had known about Felix although they had worked together for 10 years. After a botched hold-up, Virginia’s boss sends an experienced crime reporter to help.
Together, they delve deeper into the city where people disappear and reinvent themselves, particularly after 9/11. Complications involve identity and reality.
Will Gilles Roberts lose his law practice next?
Sarah Yates learned about patent law from Manhattan IT lawyer, Robert Paulson when she published his autobiography. Paulson acted as legal check for the book and appears as himself
in the book. Although Playing a Deadly Patent Game is the third book featuring Virginia Hopper, two others - runners-up in the Canadian Literary Awards, 2006 and 2008 - are unpublished.
Stretching a Truth is due out before Christmas 2015 with her Texas publisher.
In 1992, Sarah Yates formed Gemma B Publishing, dedicated to the creation of literary heroines and heroes for the disabled. In April, Yates published Lucky Lou Grooves in a Heartbeat,
with Gemma B. Publishing, her sequel to a coming-of-age novel, Lucky Lou Gets Game published in 2011. Please come out and meet Sarah.
Ask her questions about being a writer, publisher and puppeteer and take home a copy of one or more of her books.
For more information about Playing a Deadly Patent Game or to arrange an interview with Sarah Yates, please contact the Border Regional Library in Virden
