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Bio
Willow Healy has lived, traveled, and worked all over the world. She uses her experiences and adventures in Japan, Nepal, Tibet, Borneo, Lesotho, Germany, and Canada, as a source of inspiration to write novels set in faraway lands and populated with memorable characters. In Japan, she taught English to businessmen, and in Tokyo worked on NHK television and radio. In Nepal, she was marketing manager for a resort in the Himalayas. In Lesotho, Africa, she was representative for a Canadian parastatal which brought out short term volunteers to assist with a multitude of wonderful projects. While in Canada, she did marketing for a Native American art gallery specializing in stone sculpture. In the United States, among other things, she was a travel agent and customer relations manager for a software company.
Books
Title: The Nine-Tailed Fox
Published: Booklocker / 2026
Genre: Asian Myth & Legend
An ancient Japanese curse traps the dead and threatens the living. When English teacher Mona Marshall moves into a 19th century Tokyo teahouse, the threats begin. Befriended by sumo wrestlers and stalked by a yakuza, Mona’s peril goes from bad to worse. During the night of the blood-red moon, an earthquake opens a cavity in Mona’s garden — where hidden for a century and a half — is the priceless sword of Musamune, Japan’s greatest sword maker.
Mona unsheathes the sword and the ghost of Emperor Meiji appears. The sword entangles her in the emperor’s curse and the witch’s web. To save her life she must solve two murders and break the witch’s curse placed on the emperor before the last bell tolls in the New Year.
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Title: Strange Karma
Published: Booklocker / 2020
Genre: Historical Thriller
At 22,000 feet in the Himalayas a killer stalks. Don’t look down! Mountain climber Cynthia Graham learns, to her peril, that some inheritances can trigger a deadly avalanche of events that reverberate through time. She finds, in her deceased grandmother’s desk, a secret compartment with a red diamond, the world’s rarest gem, along with a batch of her great grandfather, Andrew Irvine’s, 1924 Mount Everest expedition letters, which tell of a homicidal Sherpa, a murdered Buddhist monk, and the existence of a missing twin to her red diamond. Intrigued, she travels to Nepal and, guided by ex-Gurkha soldier Dorje, attempts to solve the mystery.
But, when multiple attempts are made on her life, she realizes that some secrets should remain forever buried…
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Short Stories
Anthology: NOWW Magazine
Published: Winter 2024
“One Hundred Million Shades of Color” ♦ Short Crime Fiction, Second Place Winner
Judges comment: An ex-FBI art forgery specialist plays investigator in this inventive and interesting murder story.
Northwestern Ontario Writers Workshop (NOWW), 25th Annual International Writing Contest, Writing by 2nd Place Winners.