ISBN: TBD
[NOTE: Displaced Detective Series is moving to a new publisher;
please be patient while we re-release them AND add more!]
The Displaced Detective series is switching homes!
We're moving to Enigma House Press, the mystery imprint of Hydra Publications! Stay tuned!
About Fear in the French Quarter
Fear in the French Quarter, book 6 of Stephanie Osborn's acclaimed Displaced Detective mystery/adventure/
science fiction series, revolves around a jaunt by no less than Sherlock Holmes himself -- brought to the modern
day from an alternate universe's Victorian era by his continuum parallel, who is now his wife, Dr. Skye Chadwick-
Holmes -- to famed New Orleans for both business and pleasure. There, the detective couple investigates ghostly
apparitions, strange disappearances, mystic phenomena, and challenge threats to the very universe they call home.
It was supposed to be a working holiday for Skye and Sherlock, along with their friend, the modern day version
of one Doctor John H. Watson -- a bit of federal training that also gave the team the perfect chance to visit and
explore that most exotic of American cities, New Orleans. That was the plan, and a good one. It was just too bad
that the universe had other ideas.
New Orleans -- possibly the most foreign of all American cities, and certainly the most haunted -- now becomes
the setting for the latest adventures of Skye and Sherlock Holmes, along with the modern day surrogate of Holmes'
dearest friend, Doctor John Watson, even as the ghosts of the French Quarter become exponentially more active.
When the couple uncovers an imminently catastrophic cause, whose epicenter lies squarely in the middle of Le Vieux
Carre -- the French Quarter -- they must race against time to stop it before the whole thing breaks wide open -- and
more than one universe is destroyed.
The Displaced Detective Series by Stephanie Osborn is a science fiction mystery series in which hyperspatial
physicist Dr. Skye Chadwick discovers alternate realities which are often populated by those we consider only
literary characters. In continuum 114, a certain Victorian detective (who, in fact, exists in several continua)
was to have died along with his arch-nemesis at the Reichenbach Falls. Knee-jerking, Skye intervenes, rescuing
her hero Sherlock Holmes, who inadvertently flies through the wormhole connecting his universe with ours. Unable
to send Holmes back without causing devastating continuum collapse, he must stay in our world and adapt to the
21st century. Hijinks ensue, and the series has been aptly described as "Sherlock Holmes meets the X-Files,"
as he and Chadwick take on modern spy rings, UFOs, mass spontaneous combustion, and more.
Be sure to contact your local bookstore and ask them to stock the Displaced Detective series!
Music Inspired By My Books
The Displaced Detective Suite
Composer: Dan Hollifield
Also available through Amazon.
Digital download (plus bonus track) available at Bandcamp.
PURCHASING (TBD)
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"... Stephanie Osborn in her Displaced Detective series has found a science fiction "...I have serious Sherlockian cred, so when I tell you that I absolutely LOVED "The array of supporting characters, both American and British are equally rich "...These books are like literary crack. I fell in love with her characters and her "What I really love about this series is that Osborn bases her mysteries in real Wouldn't you want Sherlock Holmes as a friend? Let's see, loyal, charming, Combine the embodiment of these traits, your own feelings, no risk (despite ALL of the characters are well developed. ALL of the situations are possible as
25 July 2016
Cover art reveal!
Tentative release dates: 11 September 2016
21 September 2016
Ebooks going live as I write this! Amazon has also begun to fill print book orders!
More to come...
Copyright 2016 Stephanie Osborn. All rights reserved.
-- not fantasy -- way to bring Sherlock Holmes into our world...this is a Holmes who
has to adjust to being rudely extracted, plunged into the 21st Century with no way
to return...here is the real Holmes, at the height of his powers, in 21st Century
America, much as I would imagine he would be...But he's still Holmes, and I found
the series well worth reading. Recommended."
~~Jerry Pournelle, science fiction master/best-selling author
Stephanie Osborn's Displaced Detective series, you should know that it comes
from a place of vast reading experience... I was smitten with her version
of Holmes, who springs off the page as a fully-realized character in his own
right...Dr. Skye Chadwick is pretty impressive herself. Smart, funny, talented --
she's the kind of woman many of us who were geek girls before being a geek
was cool wanted to become.
and well developed (I really love Braeden Ryker), but characters aren't the
only element of any story, there has to be a compelling plot as well, and these
mysteries have that in spades...Osborn's writing makes a tesseract that
connects real and fictional continua seem completely plausible.
world so completely that I've been telling all my friends 'YOU MUST READ THESE!'
And yes, I've been doing so in all caps."
~~Melissa A. Bartell, Bibliotica, for books 1-4
(if sometimes theoretical) science, and that she relays the science in ways that
are easy for people like me, who were music and theater majors, to understand
...It's worth noting, also, that the relationship they have is absolutely true to the
characters Osborn has created, and that these are genre-defying science-fiction/
mysteries and not romance novels."
~~Melissa A. Bartell, Bibliotica, for A Case of Spontaneous Combustion
witty, intelligent, perceptive, artistic, kind, inventive, dedicated, honest,
clever, modest and trustworthy; uh, yeah, I'd want him as MY friend.
vividly described harrowing situations) AND add in absolutely splendid
entertainment. The sum is this latest contribution by Stephanie Osborn.
today's science "fact" is yesterday's science "fiction". The concept is fresh and
ingenious; fantastic, yet believable. The truly virtuous have arrived and we're
the benefactors!
~~Bill Markie, member, Scholars of the Three-Pipe Problem
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Ebook -- 25 September 2016!
Print -- 5 October 2016!
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