About the Book:

Two Pompano Beach detectives appear at the Florida residence of an innocent woman and accuse her of murdering her brother in Oregon and planning a satanic cult mass suicide. Is it possible? She is disabled, hasn't spent a night away from home in six years, and participates at the local Roman Catholic Church.  She has been mourning the recent deaths of both her brother and her father.

Acting on an accusatory letter sent by a sister in Virginia, the police   continue to harass her.   Soon afterwards she learns that someone has been impersonating her, posting pornographic web pages inviting men to come directly to her house to be paid for sex parties on yachts.  Trespassers, vandals, stalkers, and burglars show up, but the police refuse to help.   In defense, she tries to uncover the truth.

Totally alone, she exposes the dirty laundry of a dysfunctional First Family of Virginia, as well as the bungling and corruption of the local police.  The search reveals scandals triggered by a suicide note, a secret abortion and drug addiction that led to insanity, mismanagement of a million-dollar family estate, and a slanderous conspiracy among U.S. military employees, a staff employee working in the Virginia State Assembly, and others in Virginia.  The gossip spreads ominously from Virginia to Oregon to Florida to Germany. 

Gossip kills. Gossip pushed the protagonist's brother to kill himself and lured the police into harassing a law-abiding citizen. Gossip Kills reveals how one family's dysfunction erupted across State lines to identity theft and internet crime.  You could be next!

About the Author:

Carole Fielder was born in Lynchburg, Virginia.  She attended the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg and graduated valedictorian, magna cum laude from Lynchburg College in 1967.  After a brief career with IBM in Huntsville, Alabama, she married and lived seventeen years in the heart of Silicon Valley before moving to south Florida in 1995 for health reasons.  Carole was physically challenged with psoriatic arthritis in early adulthood, but she found that her faith in God and a passion for sailing kept her going.  She named her small sloop Fleur de Beaulieu after the French Mediterranean village in which she once lived.  These days, she sails with a dog and two cats off the shore of Florida.