About the Author
Raleigh artist, Linda Rae Blair was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She has used her knowledge gained during extensive travel throughout the United States and her passion for art, history, mysteries, and scenery to create compact novels with rich characters so real you’ll miss them when they’re gone and places you’ll swear you’ve been. She has lived in Seattle, WA, Monterey Bay, CA, Cincinnati, OH, and retired five years ago in the Raleigh, NC area.
Her love of history is well-earned. She is a direct descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins of Mayflower fame. She is also descended from a strong line of Scots-Irish immigrants to America in the 1700s. She even had a great uncle who was robbed by the infamous outlaw Belle Starr. Her Scottish love story, “Elusive”, spans 200 years of Scottish history and intrigue via setting in 1700s Scotland and early 1900s Paris and Scotland.
An avid reader who inhales novels by Nora Roberts, Sandra Brown and others in the romance/mystery genres, her imagination takes you to a variety of places and times all in the same story.
Her travels to the beautiful southwestern states inspired her more modern historic romance combined with mystery, “100 Years of Brotherly Love”.
Her mystery series, The Preston Andrews Mysteries now has 12 published entries, beginning with “Hard Press’d”
which now claims over 50,000 downloads and, most recently, the softcover print version of the series in compilation form.
Ms. Blair has spent many happy hours in Virginia Beach during off-season, when the winds blow cold and hard and the salty air whips at the weather-protected palms. This is the locale chosen for her Preston Andrews series. Locals and visitors alike find many familiar frames of reference in this series.
Her homage to her love for Poirot is via her teeny tiny mystery, “The Board Game Murders”.
Her newest series is aimed at a slightly younger and more female audience from that of The Preston Andrews series but begins in the backstory in “Pressing Reunion”.. The Samantha Hartley, PI series is lighter and features a very young and not terribly experienced private investigator just beginning her career—with a slight assist from the Director of the FBI. 
One thing is for certain, she combines her passions into stories interesting to history buffs, travelers, and lovers of romance and mystery.
Miss Blair is also an artist. Until the writing bug hit her, she was certain she’d spend much of her retirement painting landscapes and seascapes. Once she started writing, her paint brushes have all but gone dry.
Linda Rae Blair, Author 
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Your banner at the top with the roses is too large. I’ve never seen one that is that huge. I takes up the whole screen of my monitor. I think the most effective banners are those that are smaller–large enough but small enough so that when someone goes to your site they’ll see the banner, but at the same time also be able to see the beginning of your text.
You are absolutely correct, and I fixed it this morning just for you! I’ve been meaning to do it–my middle name, especially when it’s the weather is hot, is procrastination! UGH! Hope you like the revision. And, by the way, these are geraniums, not roses–by any other name, they’re gorgeous, heh?
Your banner looks great now!
Thanks!
Great website with interesting posts. I feel our paths must have crossed somewhere. I did live in N. C. at one time. Much good luck with your writing.
Marie
When time allows, I shall be reading one of your novels, and then probably more! Lovely to meet you through twitter, and now your great site.