JW Robitaille
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JW Robitaille, author of the Cory Marin mystery series, as well as literary novels, screenplays, and short stories, is a resident of Gainesville, Florida, where all her fiction is set. In addition to writing, she enjoys painting, cooking, house restoration, and travel. She has degrees in English from Emory University, UNC-Chapel Hill, and the University of Florida.
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Romancing the Crime
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Mystery
"Compares favorably to Harlan Coben." Amazon Reviewer Sgt. Cory Marin, head of homicide, has her hands full. Not everyone on her squad is happy she's in charge, she's still dealing with the break up of her marriage, and wealthy residents are up in arms over the murder of a young professor in broad daylight in Ravine Creek, a proposed city park where she jogs every day. Cory is convinced that what appears to be a random robbery gone wrong is premeditated murder. Her job is complicated by the appearance of Fletcher Manning, a bestselling novelist who shadows her as research for a female detective novel he is writing. She has her guard up, but as she gets to know him, she softens and begins to fall for him. 
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Marshland
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Mystery
Sergeant Cory Marin and Detective Washington investigate the overdose death of a college student and find that everyone involved is lying or has something to hide. The more questions they ask, the more they suspect something very bad has happened. When the corpse of a young man is found in a swamp, their suspicions are confirmed. Their investigation leads them to the creeks and marshes of the Gulf coast, a land of small towns, fishermen, and smugglers, and they discover a subculture of drug importers, dealers, and users, a world dominated by greed. As Cory struggles to untangle a story of innocence gone awry, she wades through an emotional marshland of her own as she adjusts to the idea that she will be a mother herself. How can she protect her child from the dangers he or she will face? With so much in flux in her life, her partnership with Washington provides a stabilizing influence, but as their friendship deepens, her feelings for him threaten to upset the fragile stability of her world. 
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Second Self
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Mystery
When Sergeant Cory Marin and Marty Washington begin to investigate the ritualistic murder of an international student, the leads and suspects keep multiplying. Is the killing tied to a similar one twenty years ago? Is the girlfriend's possessive ex-boyfriend responsible? Do the victim's fraternity brothers have a reason to want him dead? Or are the victim's girlfriend or best friend involved? When they discover a tie-in with the virtual world, Second Life, events take a bizarre twist. As her avatar tracks down leads in Second Life, Cory is faced with a new threat from Fletcher Manning. Luckily, she has Marty Washington, and her father, Jack Riley, in her corner, but can they protect her from Fletcher? 
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The Dreamtime
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Literary Coming of Age
Jay Hollins is finishing his MA in creative writing but unable to move on with his life because he is still reeling from a tragedy that spelled the death of his dreams. His college girlfriend, Cathy, diagnoses his malaise as postpartum depression and tells him he should start on a new story. He begins writing the story that haunts him–a story of young writers discovering their voices and themselves in the stories they write, the story of their friendship, and of the disastrous love affair that tears them apart. Like the Australian aborigines who believe they can dance the past to life in a ceremony called the dreamtime, in telling his story, Jay hopes to connect past and present and thereby make the future possible. 
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