Kimber Silver and the Soul of Small-Town Mystery: An Interview with Jonathan Crain

 For Kimber Silver, storytelling is less a deliberate pursuit than a magnetic pull. This irresistible force has shaped her life from the moment her grandmother handed her a book by Louis L'Amour. "The stories took me away from the farm, and the small town I lived in, to a world so vast, that I felt I could achieve anything," she recalls. That early escape into literature would eventually circle back, finding new expression in her own fictional small town—the carefully constructed streets of Harlow, Kansas, where her Broken Rhodes mystery series unfolds. 

 Billy Dees and I shared some laughter as we discussed "Broken Rhodes," writing, and our experience of being only children.

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A small town in Kansas has had it’s first homicide in years. The victim’s granddaughter, a former resident, roars into town to find out what happened.

This is the set up for a new mystery novel by first time author, Kimber Silver, who is not completely unknown. Her social media posts have already earned her quite a following.

There are twists and turns, and as the best stories usually have, some revealing background and history to be uncovered.

Kinsley Rhodes is a force to reckoned with and the Sheriff must work quickly to solve the murder at hand and prevent another.

“Broken Rhodes” is the novel, the author, Kimber Silver, will join me to discuss it and how it came to be.

I became connected with up and coming novelist Kimber Silver when I first got on Twitter a few years back. I was drawn to her as a fellow book lover and I loved her reviews of books she felt passionately about. What I didn’t know about her at the time was her pitch-perfect ear for short-story writing. I could tell from the first piece she shared that she had a real grasp of what made short fiction work. And with every subsequent piece she posted, I knew she had real talent.

 Ey up mighty followers!  After the huge success of my last interview (3 likes, no restraining orders and one crazee lady who plans to read it every day) I am back with a blockbuster of an interview…a debut author, an expert wordsmith and the voice of handsome sheriffs, we shall find out about her book and question the absence of the Gnomes.