About Sherrie Todd-Beshore
Sherrie Todd-Beshore began her writing career as a reporter and editor for her high school newspaper, The Static. A decade later, she was publishing columns and feature stories for magazines and daily newspapers across Alberta, Colorado and New York. After 20 years of deadlines and fact-checking, she left journalism for fiction — bringing her investigative curiosity and attention to detail to every story she tells.
A dual citizen of Canada and the United States, Sherrie has lived, traveled and worked throughout Europe and the Mediterranean but calls all of North America home. Her blended family of five — whose early escapades first appeared in her Denver Post columns — inspired her nonfiction books Blended, Not Shaken and Another—Blended Not Shaken.
Read BookTrib’s review of Sherrie’s book, Fine Points Malice and Payback.
FEATURED BOOK
Dream Gate… Grabbing Air
When Dreams Reveal Deadly Secrets
Olivia and Phoebe inherit a century-old building … and a body hidden for eighty years. Alongside missing WWII paintings, Olivia’s recurring dreams start to unravel mysteries no one else can see. But when murder strikes, people vanish, and her visions escalate, she realizes some secrets are more dangerous than history itself, and the truth may change everything.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Mosquito Creek Inn: Mosquito Creek Detective Club, Book 1 (2011)
Black Eagle Pass: Mosquito Creek Detective Club, Book 2 (2011)
High Stakes Gamble: Mosquito Creek Detective Club, Book 3 (2011)
Dakota Mist: Mosquito Creek Detective Club, Book 4 (2012)
Mountains and Shadows (2013)
24 Sussex Drive (2013)
Behind the Sun (2013)
Toy Master: Mosquito Creek Detective Club, Book 5 (2014)
The Count of Baldpate (2014)
The Crow Child (2014)
Grandma’s Red Convertible: Mosquito Creek Detective Club, Book 6 (2015)
WingMan: Mosquito Creek Detective Club, Book 7 (2015)
Another-Blended Not Shaken: Remarriage After Divorce With Children… (2016)
Crow Child Trilogy (2016)
Fine Points and Malice (2016)
Fine Points Malice and Payback (2018)
Dream Gate… Grabbing Air (2018)
Year of the Dog (2018)
Shadows and Light (2018)
Dream Gate II…Grabbing Time (2019)
Come Sit In My Kitchen (2020)
From ‘There’ To ‘Here’: Memoir Of A Journalist Turned Storyteller (2020)
WOODROW & WREN…: The Rule Of Three (2021)
STILL*WITH NO NET…In America: From Journalist To Novelist & Blogger (2024)
A Q&A WITH SHERRIE TODD-BESHORE
Who are your biggest literary influences?
Agatha Christie and Daphne du Maurier.
What do you hope readers will take away from your books?
They got to “escape” for a short time, they learned something, and the plot surprised them along the way.
Who is your ideal target audience? What kind of reader would like your work?
My target audience is both male and female readers who seek a mystery-suspense plot they can’t easily predict.
What’s your latest book? If you had to describe it as a cross between two well-known books, what would you say?
Not actually my “latest” book(s), but Dream Gate…Grabbing Air and its sequel Dream Gate II…Grabbing Time (both a huge research challenge) are a cross between The DaVinci Code for its esoteric elements and The Time Traveler’s Wife for the romantic suspense.
What book changed your life?
The Diary of Anne Frank.
Tell us about the protagonist in your latest book, and who would play her or him if they made a movie out of your book?
I’ll return to Dream Gate…Grabbing Air (and its sequel …Grabbing Time) because Olivia Jamieson has been so well-liked by readers. She’s identifiable, smart, vulnerable, but with spunk. I’ve seen that same “energy” in the performances of both Sarah Drew (Hallmark; Mistletoe Mystery)and Kaitlin Olson (ABC; High Potential).
If your protagonist could befriend any character from literature, who would he or she choose?
Olivia Jamieson (Dream Gate…) would unquestionably befriend Elizabeth Bennet (Pride and Prejudice).
If you could write a retelling of any book and put your own spin on it, which book would you choose and why?
James Patterson’s “Alex Cross” series. I would have had the main character married with a family, something that offers another “story-layer” and makes Dr. Cross more relatable.
Who is your favorite literary character?
Not so easy to do, but (one of them is from another timeless classic) — the character of the second Mrs. de Winter in Daphne du Maurier’s tense-suspense, Rebecca.
ARTICLES/REVIEWS
Review of Fine Points Malice and Payback – Book Addict Book Blog
Review of Fine Points Malice and Payback – Phyllis Jones Pisanelli Reviews
Review of Fine Points Malice and Payback – Country Mamas with Kids
Review of Shadows and Light – Reedsy Discovery
Review of The Crow Child – Reedsy Discovery
Review of The Crow Child – Midwest Book Review
Review of Behind the Sun – Self-Publishing Review