Linda O. Johnston - Home Page

Romantic Suspense and Mystery Novelist

Welcome to my website!

Romance, romantic suspense and mystery… I’ve a lot of interests, and the diversity spills over into my writing. Professionally, I practice law, and I write. Sometime I even write about lawyers. My legal practice also entails writing…contracts.

So what’s your pleasure? A good story with a satisfying ending? Mine, too--and that’s what I like to write, no matter what the genre or subgenre.

My Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Lexie is here to greet you in the middle of my middle initial O? because she would love for you to read the exploits of her alter-ego named… Lexie. That Lexie’s debut was in January 2005 in the first Kendra Ballantyne, pet-sitter, Berkley Prime Crime mystery, SIT, STAY, SLAY, and she's back in the second Kendra book, NOTHING TO FEAR BUT FERRETS. Check them out! And, of course, Lexie plays an important role in the third book of the series, FINE FEATHERED DEATH, published in May 2006, the fourth book of the series, MEOW IS FOR MURDER, was published in February 2007, and the fifth Kendra mystery, THE FRIGHT OF THE IGUANA, came out in October 2007. Both MEOW and IGUANA were on the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association bestseller lists for the months they were published! A new Kendra book, DOUBLE DOG DARE, will be a June 2008 release. And Kendra and Lexie will be returning to recount their adventures in at least one more book. More information to come....

Right now, come on in, visit Lexie, Kendra and me, and all my heroes and heroines who are just waiting to make your acquaintance.

Recently, I was interviewed on behalf of BowTie Publications, which publishes a number of excellent pet-related magazines. Parts of the interview will be posted on their related websites. The first is there already—on the BirdChannel! Here is the link. I was interviewed a while ago for a cable television show. You can see how it went here.

My Amazon Short, "Kendra's Squirreliest Client," is now available from Amazon.com.

And... Okay. I’ve done it. I’ve agreed to participate weekly in a blog. How could I resist? I get to blog about pets! Come visit the Killer Hobbies blog anytime. My fellow bloggers, also mystery writers whose characters have hobbies to die for, will discuss pastimes ranging from genealogy to scrapbooking, doll collecting and needlework. My pet posts are there every Thursday.

Watch for my Silhouette Nocturnes, coming in 2009. The first is MOONLIGHT AND FIRE, about a sexy military man who just happens to be a werewolf, and the lovely veterinarian who saves his life. The second is MORTAL OPTIONS, in which a lady K-9 cop who is also a Valkyrie saves the life of a tormented SWAT officer with secrets of his own.

Watch for the seventh Kendra adventure, NEVER SAY STY, in 2009. And Kendra and Lexie will be returning to recount their adventures in at least two books after that! More information to come....

Happy reading,

Linda O! Johnston