When she went to the library with her mom for the first time, Kate Michaelson had no idea where to start.
The Ottawa Hills resident was told by her mother, Connie Oney, “You can never go wrong with a mystery,” she said.
Years later, Ms. Michaelson went from reading mysteries to writing one of her own.
Her first book Hidden Rooms , has received mass acclaim from readers of the mystery novel, garnering many four to five-star reviews on Google Books and Amazon.
“It’s been wonderful,” she said. “When I hear [that] the reader resonates with something in the book, that just means everything.”
The novel centers around Riley Svenson, a long-distance runner from rural Ohio who’s struggling with a mystery illness, and returns home and finds herself trying to clear her brother’s name after he’s accused of murdering his fiancee.
It follows Ms. Svenson as she’s trying to solve the case while also dealing with her mystery condition, which causes her to struggle to get out of bed and pass out at home after she returns from looking for clues.