Books with author M.J. Musgrave

The Stockton Insane Asylum MurderA Portia of the Pacific Historical MysteryVolume 3“Madness can be seen as an intuitive probing into true reality.”–R. D. LaingWomen were, among others, misdiagnosed as insane by alienists in the 1800s. My plot will involve a female child who has been institutionalized in 1887, but the aunt of this child comes to Clara Foltz to say she believes the child was admitted to the Stockton State Insane Asylum (the first such institution in California) because she knew about a murder that was committed on her wealthy parent’s estate.Clara solicits the help of Elizabeth Packard, the crusading (real) activist who was committed in the 1860s by her husband. It took Mrs. Packard three years to earn her freedom. Together with Ah Toy, they contrive a way to go undercover to gain admittance into the Women’s Building at Stockton to find the child and determine what happened to have her institutionalized. Children were regularly institutionalized, as were the elderly and the feeble-minded.Five of these characters will be readers who won a raffle held by the author. They will be suspect asylum patients inside the Stockton State Insane Asylum, the first public mental hospital in California. The author will be working with each reader, using their photos, descriptions and “personal idiosyncrasies” to craft the characters used in his mystery.BookLife Prize, 2018: ​​"A thrilling adventure, perfect for whodunit fans and historical fiction buffs."Kirkus Review: "An entertaining mix of fact, fiction, feminism, and the occult."

You would not believe what patients say to their health-care providers. I am not breaking any confidentiality rules, but I am giving you an insight into what we have to deal with to provide quality care. Hopefully, you learn how not to communicate with your health-care provider. Health-connected readers will be able to relate to this book and hopefully enjoy it.

Sins of Darkness begins the exploits of Dr. Abigail Soloman, a Soledad Prison psychiatrist who puts her life and her reputation on the line to prove that convicted killer, Sirhan Sirhan, is a Manchurian Candidate assassin. What if Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated by a fledgling group of extremists who hypno-program Sirhan Bishara Sirhan? This novel, the first in a series of Abigal Soloman Mysteries, shows how recent evidence discovered in Las Vegas in 1996 plunges fifty-five-year-old prison psychiatrist Soloman into a brainwashing and programming conspiracy group that has grown much larger than the one that killed Kennedy in the 1960s.

Short Listed in the Cygnus Best SciFi Awards, 2016. The youth of the world have finally taken over in the futuristic SciFi serial novel, LIFE IN 2050, by Jim Musgrave. Marijuana hookahs in stores, sex in the streets, and no more war profits for the elderly elite of the Military Industrial Complex. However, one worker at the Ministry of Mindfulness, William Drury, the black son of an English Professor, is turning 40 in three days. He knows what will happen to him and he wants to escape Big Bro's socialistic libertarian paradise. In Big Bro's dystopian world, where citizens over 40 are given surgeries that make them see in black and white to prepare them for the induced dementia to come, William must save his parents and family, who have been separated. This is a world, he discovers, where getting social security has become a reality show fight to the death, and prostitutes are "safe sex" androids. Who's behind Big Bro, and what will become of people of color and William's family? Read LIFE IN 2050. Excerpt: Up ahead stood the tall skyscraper—the only one allowed—of the Young Socialists’ Ministry of Mindfulness. This was where William worked, and it was also broadcasting the libertarian message of the party, in ten-foot letters, running every ten seconds across the huge digital banner in front of the building: WAR IS IN THE PAST FREEDOM IS ALWAYS TODAY IGNORANCE IS IN WRITTEN HISTORY

You would not believe what patients say to their health-care providers. I am not breaking any confidentiality rules, but I am giving you an insight into what we have to deal with to provide quality care. Hopefully, you learn how not to communicate with your health-care provider. Health-connected readers will be able to relate to this book and hopefully enjoy it.

The Stockton Insane Asylum MurderA Portia of the Pacific Historical MysteryVolume 3“Madness can be seen as an intuitive probing into true reality.”–R. D. LaingWomen were, among others, misdiagnosed as insane by alienists in the 1800s. My plot will involve a female child who has been institutionalized in 1887, but the aunt of this child comes to Clara Foltz to say she believes the child was admitted to the Stockton State Insane Asylum (the first such institution in California) because she knew about a murder that was committed on her wealthy parent’s estate.Clara solicits the help of Elizabeth Packard, the crusading (real) activist who was committed in the 1860s by her husband. It took Mrs. Packard three years to earn her freedom. Together with Ah Toy, they contrive a way to go undercover to gain admittance into the Women’s Building at Stockton to find the child and determine what happened to have her institutionalized. Children were regularly institutionalized, as were the elderly and the feeble-minded.Five of these characters will be readers who won a raffle held by the author. They will be suspect asylum patients inside the Stockton State Insane Asylum, the first public mental hospital in California. The author will be working with each reader, using their photos, descriptions and “personal idiosyncrasies” to craft the characters used in his mystery.BookLife Prize, 2018: "A thrilling adventure, perfect for whodunit fans and historical fiction buffs."Kirkus Review: "An entertaining mix of fact, fiction, feminism, and the occult."

Sins of Darkness begins the exploits of Dr. Abigail Soloman, a Soledad Prison psychiatrist who puts her life and her reputation on the line to prove that convicted killer, Sirhan Sirhan, is a Manchurian Candidate assassin. What if Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated by a fledgling group of extremists who hypno-program Sirhan Bishara Sirhan? This novel, the first in a series of Abigal Soloman Mysteries, shows how recent evidence discovered in Las Vegas in 1996 plunges fifty-five-year-old prison psychiatrist Soloman into a brainwashing and programming conspiracy group that has grown much larger than the one that killed Kennedy in the 1960s.

Someone has opened the Slipstream, causing time to repeat a single day over and over again. As the mysterious events of the day begin to unfold, Parry Pretty discovers the heart-stopping reason why only she can close the Slipstream. The only problem is the stubborn girl refuses to believe that the Slipstream even exists. Her logical brain ignores the fact that she continues to relive the same day, even though she has experienced déjà vu several times, and her practical nature certainly won’t accept that there is more than one realm in the world—eight realms to be exact. But all that is about to change when Parry finds herself chasing after a mysterious stranger through windows that lead to new and wondrous lands, where she discovers a greater and darker secret that could alter her destiny, and the fate of all the realms, forever.

Originally published in 1985. This is a fascinating account of the life cycle of a minor literary genre, the boys’ school story. It discusses early nineteenth-century precursors of the school story – didactic works with such revealing titles as The Parents’ Assistant – and goes on to examine in detail the two major examples of the genre - Hughes’s Tom Brown’s School Days and Farrar’s Eric. The slow development of the genre during the 1860s and 1870s is traced, and its institutionalisation by Talbot Baines Reed in, for example, The Fifth Form at St Dominic’s, is described. Many similar works were subsequently published for adults and adolescents, and the author shows how they differ from the originals in being critical in tone and written to a formula in plot and style. This development is discussed in relation to the changing social structure of Britain up to 1945, by which time to life of the genre was almost ended.

The world has changed since Parry Pretty closed the Slipstream, but all is not back to the way it used to be. Parry is now trapped inside The Realm of Possibilities, uncertain if it is even possible to get back home! To make matters worse, a war has broken out between those who have joined with the Dark Lady and those who are against her. Now, clan is fighting clan, friends are against friends, and even Parry is having trouble deciding who to trust. For in the midst of it all, darker secrets are unfolding--secrets that those closest to Parry have known all along. In a place where islands float in the sky, mad Gnome Kings rule the underground world, and the shadowy Tarteareans soldiers roam freely in all the land, Parry must choose her path wisely if she ever hopes to return home once again and escape the prophecy that ties her to the Dark Lady.

In 1968, the murder of Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy by Palestinian-American Sirhan B. Sirhan shocked the world. A swift trial led to Sirhan's conviction for murder, and was hailed as a triumph for American justice. But was everything really as straightforward as it seemed? Dr. Abigail Solomon, a 55-year-old Jewish prison psychiatrist, is plunged into a murderous conspiracy when she begins to examine Sirhan and discovers to her horror that he is the victim of a brainwashing group called The Lord's Avengers. But, as she unravels the mystery surrounding Kennedy's murder, she begins to question whether she has also fallen victim to mind control. Who is behind this sinister group, and why are they determined to wreak havoc around the world? The result of extensive research, interviews and newly discovered evidence, Sins of Darkness is a conspiracy thriller about the sinister art of mind control and how it might have been applied to manipulate the events surrounding the murder of RFK.