Mystery Mom Writes Again

By Sally Cole

Friday, October 1, 2004

Hot on the heels of her first thriller, The Night She Came Home, Lori Derby Bingley has just launched her second novel.
"I write for the love of it," says the Charlottetown mother of five.
One Eye in the Darkness is about a mother’s worst nightmare - losing her children. It’s the story of what happens to Cassie Richardson after she gets a call from her police detective ex-husband telling her that their four-year-old son, David, has been kidnapped and the twist-turning chain of events that follow.
"I write mainly because I love to read mysteries, I love to watch mysteries and I like to keeping readers in suspense.Even if they guess who the killer is I want to give them something in the book that they didn’t expect. I love doing that," says Bingley.
Hot off the presses of Publish America Books in Baltimore, Maryland, it’s not only creating excitement for her readers, but for Bingley herself.

Lori Derby Bingley shows her latest book,
One Eye in the Darkness. It's the second
murder mystery by the Charlottetown
mother of five
One Eye in the Darkness has just received the Reviewer’s Choice Award and a book cover award from Road To Romance International.
"I’m delighted that it’s been so well received." Bingley has taken more than two years to write her new book. The first challenge was the research-learning curve.
Set in Fredona, New York, the book mentions places like the historic White Inn and New Hampshire.
"I had to go and research the names of streets, restaurants and hotels in the area to make sure that it matched the plot. Originally, I had a car going off the cliff, but there were no cliffs in the area so we worked with the existing geography.
"I also visited websites to learn about what detectives look for when they arrive at a crime scene and how they go about an investigation."
The second challenge was juggling her family responsibilities with creative time.
"Now that I have a three-year-old and a five-month-old, the only time I get to write in the afternoon is if I can get them both down at the same time for a nap. It was a lot of late night writing."
Bingley credits her family as the secret to her success. "They’re so supportive. My husband, Joey, takes the kids to give me writing time. He gave me a laptop computer for Christmas and he’s setting up a website for me."
In turn, she bounces ideas off him.
"My son, James, talks about me all the time at school. One day his teacher invited me to the classroom to talk about writing, publishing and everything I do. The students were great. They had a lot of questions prepared."
Bingley even tried out some of her children’s stories on them. As for the future? Time will tell, she says.
"I have a book coming out next year in August. It’s called Lorelei. It’s set on P.E.I. It’s not a murder mystery. People will be surprised because it’s something different for me.
"It’s about a girl who grows up dealing with death and learning how to accept it. She grows up with insecurities and has trouble finding love. It was very different for me."
Copies of One Eye in the Darkness and The Night She Came Home are available at P.E.I. bookstores.

For more information, go www.loriderbybingley.com.

  
 
   
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