Octogenarian launches eighth book

Sabra Kiani’s new mystery thriller, Bessie Mae’s Dog: Dog Gone, is now available through Trafford Publishing.

According to a press release from Trafford, the mystery novel tells the story of two families and an innocent Lhasa Apso pup and weaves into a plot about greed, science and a cure for cancer. “Imagine a dirty, bedraggled waif of a puppy in an animal shelter as the central figure in a case of fraud, intellectual theft, murder and destruction of a major pharmaceutical company’s laboratory,” the release said.

Bessie Mae’s Dog

The author, who lived in Guyana for 20 years as a Baha’i volunteer teaching English, reading, writing, drama and CXC exam prep, is in her eighth decade. She “has had enough life experience – in five very different career areas – to feed information to many books,” the release said. She has five children and shares her husband’s two as well as their combined 17 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Kiani is also author of Butterfly Dance, What Happened to Barbara, The Rearranging of Grandmother Emmaline, Soft, and a children’s book Billy Ben’s Fantastic Pictures.