Mignon is the author of the award-winning children’s novel, Aunt Matilda’s Ghost, and several acclaimed mysteries for adult readers, including Raven Rock, Cry at Dusk, and Final Curtain, as well as
The War in Sallie’s Station, a novel about growing up during World
War II, and The Christmas Cottage, an inspirational Christmas fantasy.
Angel at Troublesome Creek was the first in a mystery series featuring Augusta Goodnight,
a guardian angel "temp". Other books in the August Goodnight mystery series include
An Angel to Die For, Shadow of an Angel, The Angel Whispered Danger, Too Late for Angels, The Angel and the Jabberwocky Murders, and her newest one, Hark! The Herald Angel Screamed,
which came out in November 2008.
It’s Christmastime in Stone’s Throw, S.C., but amid all the caroling, cookies and cheer, a murderer casts a not-so-jolly pall on the holiday season. Did a grieving family ghost push an itinerant stranger from the balcony at Willowbrook, the family’s deserted estate?
Augusta Goodnight dispenses her no-nonsense advice along with the Yuletide wassail when she comes to the aid of Lucy Nan Pilgrim and the Thursday Morning Literary Society (which now meets on Monday afternoons).
COMING SOON! FIRST IN A NEW MYSTERY SERIES FEATURING MISS DIMPLE!
Remember grade school? If you weren’t lucky enough to have been taught by a “Miss Dimple,” it’s a sure bet your parents or grandparents were.
Dedicated and experienced, she could quell a disorderly upstart with a firm look, or, at most, a quiet reprimand. You didn’t argue with Miss Dimple!
In MISS DIMPLE DISAPPEARS, decorous Miss Dimple Kilpatrick, longtime first-grade teacher at Elderberry Grammar School, has jolted and alarmed the small Georgia town by abruptly vanishing only one day after the school custodian is discovered dead.
It is 1942 and the United States is at war with Germany, Japan, and Italy. Young teachers, Charlie Carr and her friend, Annie Gardner, along with residents of Phoebe Fenwick’s boarding house and other quirky citizens of Elderberry, are forced to deal with the suspicious disappearance of Miss Dimple along with the hardships of World War II.
Look for MISS DIMPLE DISAPPEARS from St. Martin’s Minotaur in the fall of 2010.
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Mystery writer Mignon F Ballard, author of the Augusta Goodnight mysteries and novels and other mystery fiction books. Augusta Goodnight is a guardian angel in a mystery series written by author Mignon Franklin Ballard, living in Fort Mill, South Carolina. The Augusta Goodnight mysteries include Angel at Troublesome Creek, An Angel to Die For, Shadow of an Angel, The Angel Whispered Danger, Too Late for Angels, The Angel and The Jabberwocky Murders, and Hark! The Herald Angel Screamed. Aunt Matilda's Ghost was an award-winning children's novel. Some other acclaimed mysteries are Raven Rock, Cry at Dusk, Minerva Cries Murder, Deadly Promise, The Widow's Woods, Final Curtain, The War in Sallie's Station. Additional works, stories by Mignon Ballard are the script and lyrics for a musical, Bandstand Tales, and The Christmas Cottage, an inspirational Christmas book. Mignon is a member of Sisters in Crime, an organization of mystery writers. On this site, wwww.MignonBallard.com, you will find information about this mystery author, her book signings and appearances, and delicious recipes by Augusta Goodnight herself.