Welcome to MurderProse.com, the bi-coastal world of Hazel Dawkins and Dennis Berry, who delight in melding fact and fiction in murderous prose. Elizabeth Berry, emeritus member of the MurderProse team, is here too.

We’ve known each other forever and hope to get to know you as well.

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Here’s a visual preview of the Dr. Yoko Kamimura mysteries:

Eye Sleuth, by Hazel Dawkins, is the first Dr. Yoko Kamimura mystery, featuring an intrepid behavioral optometrist turned sleuth.

    Dr. Yoko Kamimura’s safe, predictable routine at the College of Optometry in New York is shattering. When the stranger who comes up to Yoko on East 24th Street and warns her of danger is shot to death, safe and predictable switches to murder and mayhem. The very next day, there’s a catastrophe at the iconic National Arts Club and Yoko’s godmother is left in a coma after a vicious attack.

    Frustrated by the dismissive attitude of Detective Dan Riley at the 13th Precinct, Yoko vows to turn sleuth, but work and bizarre events keep her scrambling. Not even a prestigious conference 3,000 miles away in England in the tranquil coastal city of Bournemouth and a visit to Christchurch’s 11th century priory are havens for Yoko.

    Now she is in the killer’s cross-hairs and the chase is on…in and around the Gramercy Park area, sometimes at No. 34, New York’s first coop building, sometimes at the abandoned Quaker Meeting House and eventually at famous Pete’s Tavern.

Eye Wit, co-written by Hazel Dawkins and Dennis Berry:

    A hot-air balloon piloted by a Gypsy crashes in New York’s Gramercy Park district. At virtually the same moment, Marco Fellini, wealthy art dealer and philanthropist, is murdered while target shooting in the private archery range atop his sumptuous brownstone.

    NYPD’s 13th Precinct has its hands full with these two high-profile cases, and its prime trio of detectives––Lieutenant Dan Riley, the brilliantly obsessive-compulsive Zoran Zeissing, and behavioral optometrist Dr. Yoko Kamimura, the team’s newest addition and Riley’s on-again, off-again lover––need to solve the cases. Both of them. Right now.

    Their investigations take the unusual trio on dizzying chases: Over Manhattan rooftops, through NYC’s iconic National Arts Club, around Central Park—even under Manhattan’s crowded streets—in hot pursuit of murderers as resourceful and determined as the detectives. 

Mommie Dearest, the first Andy Eastman Novel, by Dennis Berry:

    It’s 2002 and Andy Eastman’s life is falling apart. Eager to begin his summer vacation, Andy returns home to find a note from his wife: she’s left him, sick of his laissez-faire attitude toward life. Instead of confronting his problems, he agrees to help a friend find out what’s wrong with her husband, a lawyer recently fired by Boeing, Andy’s employer.

    Andy uncovers a conspiracy involving Boeing, the lawyer, and rapacious co-conspirators—and all hell breaks loose: his son and two of his son’s friends are abducted and the lawyer goes missing. Bewildered, dismayed, increasingly desperate, Andy shatters his self-image as a Vietnam vet turned pacifist, a man more prone to turn a cheek than throw a punch.

    He has no choice. He must rescue the boys—it’s his only hope to save his marriage and the lives of those he cherishes.

Inn Sight, by Elizabeth Berry:

    Written in 2001 and 2002, Inn Sight reflects Liz’s experiences operating Bainbridge House in the early 1990's, at Rolling Bay on Bainbridge Island.
    In 2002, Liz submitted this story and won the coveted Malice Domestic competition for the best unpublished work by a writer of a traditional mystery (as exemplified by Agatha Christie).

    Regrettably, Inn Sight never found a traditional publisher, a miscarriage her loving husband, Dennis, is happy to finally rectify.