Lally Hunter-Innis
ABOUT
Lally Hunter-Innis is a very serious writer with very serious things to say. Unfortunately, she hasn’t written any of that down, choosing instead to wax poetic on how dinosaurs could be murder weapons. A summa cum laude graduate of a fancy east coast university, she studied film and creative writing before diving into a career producing infomercials. But wait, there's more!
Under the pen name Loro Gold, she was accepted into the author mentorship program Pitch Wars where she workshopped Dial C for Carnotaurus. When not writing mysteries or scrolling the Sisters in Crime forums, she also harvests berries, which sounds like a really peculiar euphemism, but she promises it is not. She lives somewhere in the United States with a spousal unit and two dogs.
BOOKS
Find out more about my finished manuscripts and what I'm currently working on.
A PREGNANT WOMAN'S GUIDE TO MURDER
Suspense Mystery
In Progress
-Blurb Coming Soon-
HELLO MURDERUH,
HELLO KILLUH
Mystery
Revising at 82,000
Failed amateur sleuth Gwen Cadwgen is trying to move on from her mother’s murder conviction by opening an adult summer camp. So when a camper dies after being shot with an arrow, Gwen tries desperately to stay out of it. But that's a little hard when a group of amateur sleuth scouts staying at the camp start digging into the crime. To clear her name she has to decide whether to give sleuthing a second chance with the scouts or join her mother in prison.
COMPS
Dial A for Aunties X Finlay Donovan is Killing It
EMMA OF THE MAINLAND
YA Historical Mystery
Complete at 87,000
Orphan Emma Shirley always wanted a family, and she finds it when a chance encounter leads her to track down her twin sister,
Anne of Green Gables. However, their family reunion is cut short when her sister's adoptive father dies under suspicious circumstances, and new-to-Avonlea Emma is the main suspect. If she can't clear her name, her years of searching will end with a noose.
COMPS
Enola Holmes X
Pride and Premeditation
RIONA MCTIRE TAKES A BITE OUT OF CRIME
Mystery
Complete at 82,000
Riona McTire quit her kush government contractor gig and put her life savings into making homemade dog food, but when one of her clients’ owners drops dead after sneaking a bite of a doggy lasagna, she’ll have to find out who planted the poison to save her dog café or she's destined for a ruff time in prison.
COMPS
Finlay Donovan is Killing It X Arsenic and Adobo
ULYSSA SLATE: SNAKE IN THE DORMS
YA Mystery
Complete at 86,000
University dorm desk receptionist Ulyssa Slate needs to pick a major, but when a body turns up in the dorm on her shift, she has a major problem. Her coworker is pegged for the crime, but Ulyssa doesn't believe he's guilty. To discover who's really killing off co-eds, Ulyssa must use her access as a desk receptionist to clear her coworker's name.
COMPS
Maureen Johnson X Acorn's Agatha Raisin
SET PHASERS TO MURDER
Mystery
Sample Available
Down to her last unemployment check, Clem Peele lands a job on a cursed science fiction TV show filming in Montana. But when she arrives, the curse strikes, killing the production manager. Before police can arrive to investigate, a blizzard cuts the crew off at a remote hotel, stranding them with a killer. To survive—not to mention collect her paycheck—she'll need to find the killer before they find her first.
COMPS
Carl Hiaasen X Galaxy Quest
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DIAL C FOR CARNOTAURUS
Sci-Fi Mystery
Complete at 98,000
Neurodivergent Kassie Hummingbird wants a dream home, but what she has is a one-way ticket to the Cretaceous and a front-row seat to murder-by-dinosaur. To get the home (and family) she’s longed for, she needs to uncover who trained a dinosaur to kill before they strike again.
COMPS
Station Eternity X Paradox Hotel
YES, AND THEN...
Mystery Thriller
Complete at 77,000
Stormy Seager accepts a job working on a top-secret new comedy television show in the Maldives. Sun, surf, and no extradition to the United States? Yes, please. With the feds breathing down her neck, she needs it all. But the secluded ocean villa retreat turns into a nightmare as the comedians are murdered one by one.
COMPS
Ruth Ware X Netflix's The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
DISCHORD AND PERISHABLES
YA Mystery
Complete at 89,000
Merle Mortcombe is saving money to get out of her one-stop-light Texas town and be the next Dolly Parton, but when her accompanist/brother is accused of his ex-girlfriend’s murder, she has to put her career on hold to solve the case, or their final encore might be his death sentence.
COMPS
The Agathas X Maureen Johnson
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THE KELP AND THE DEAD
Magical Mystery
Sample Available
Aila Willis recently took over the local dive shop in her hometown. But when she nearly drowns while trying out some new gear, her plea to live awakes an ancient magic coursing through her veins. Then Aila’s ex-boyfriend turns up dead at the shop, and there are signs her magic—kelpie magic—killed him. To keep her dive shop afloat, she’ll have to come to terms with her ancestry while solving his murder.
COMPS
Practical Magic X Smile Beach Murder
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UNDEARLY DEPARTED
Paranormal Mystery
Sample Available
After her father’s death, Quincy Pride-Coolidge is putting his affairs in order. As she packs up her childhood home, drinking her way through the liquor cabinet, she finds the Ouiqa board her parents hid from her when she was a kid. Four-or-five sheets to the wind, no make that six, Quincy attempts a drunk seance. She wakes the next morning to a group of ghosts who have a message: her father was murdered. To find out who killed her father, Quincy will have to put a little trust in her ghostly ancestors or risk the murderer eluding justice.
COMPS
Seances are for Suckers X CBS's Ghosts
ZIBBIE DOUGLASS IS IN DEEP WATER
Historical Mystery
Revising
1895 was supposed to be Zibbie Douglass's year—a dream wedding to the most eligible bachelor in Galveston, Texas. But when the mother of the groom cancels the wedding and then turns up drowned in a laundry pot, Zibbie is the main suspect. With her wedding on the line, she has to uncover the real killer or 'till death do us part won't just be a vow, it will be her inevitable future.
COMPS
Rhys Bowen X A Ladies Guide to Mischief and Murder
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