M. Lee Buompensiero, has released her first novel in the Spirit Club Mystery series. Something Wicked features a reluctant heroine, Sophie Lawton, who not only sees and talks to ghosts, she solves crimes with their help. An aunt Sophie has never met, dies and leaves Volare Investigations to her.

 A librarian by training, Sophie resists the calling to run her dead relative’s investigative services. However, her first case involves a kidnapping that very much resembles her birth mother’s unsolved case. With the help of a ghost secretary, Maude, and Maude’s deceased, disgraced police investigator ex-husband, Sophie becomes convinced to join forces with the couple to solve a girl's disappearance. It's a race against time to save the girl before a serial killer makes the girl his next trophy victim. Sophie battles against the odds to find the missing girl before it's too late.

I like the idea that ghosts might be helpful to a detective and that they are unpredictable; often disappearing just when they are about to disclose valuable information. I highly recommend this book, even to people who are afraid of ghost stories.

Marcia has published a mystery novel: Sumerland, which was winner of the 2017 San Diego Book Awards, Best Published Mystery category. Writing under the pseudonym "Loren Zahn," she has published the Theo Hunter mystery series: Dirty Little Murders (2009/2017), Deadly Little Secrets (2015), and Fatal Little Lies (2018). Deadly Little Secrets was a finalist in the 2015 San Diego Book Awards unpublished manuscript division.

Marcia acted as Managing Editor and publisher of ten anthologies for the Guild between 2013 and 2019. She is the publisher of five novels and biographical work for authors, including members of SDWEG. She holds the office of Treasurer as a member of the Guild's board of directors.