Foreclosure Well Launched

Please note: The title of the book, Foreclosure, was changed to Hot Blooded Murder in 2018.


After a two year wait due to family illness, the long awaited launch of the mystery novel Foreclosure  by Jacqueline D'Acre took place at Brodie Library.  Author Charles Wilkins talked about the book, about the author and her love of horses and New Orleans, both main themes of the book. 

Jackie then treated the crowd to a sample of her clear straightforward prose.  Refreshments and brisk sales followed.  The book is now available at Chapters. Look on the back wall in the section for local writers.

Jacqueline D'Acre launches mystery novel, Foreclosure.

2018 - please note: The title of the novel, Foreclosure,  has changed to Hot Blooded Murder.

Good news at last.  After a delay due to family illness, local author Jacqueline D'Acre will launch her latest book at Brodie Library on February 1 at 7 pm.

Jacqueline D’Acre was born and raised in Fort William, the oldest of eight Cryderman children. (She is the sister of race car driver Joel Cryderman and Della Cryderman, horse trainer.)

In 1977 she moved to San Francisco where she attended the University of San Francisco and from there moved to New Orleans where she lived for thirty years, working in her own company Great Ideas Productions as a film and video director and writer and soaking up the unique New Orleans’ culture. She had two children and lives with her daughter Catherine to this day. In 1998 her first novel Between Extremities was published and she enjoyed many book signings in the Deep South as well as in Thunder Bay.

Her second novel, Foreclosure, was published two years ago but did not have a book launch due to the extreme illness of her daughter. Thankfully all that has passed and now she can enjoy the publication of this mystery novel which is set in New Orleans. The amateur sleuth in the book is a Thunder Bay native! 

Here is a little info about this fine book.

What do murder, horses and Lila’s Creole Diner have I common?

 Head down to St. Tremaine Parish near New Orleans and find out! Meet Bryn Wiley, a mild equine writer, who discovers a show horse breeder facing financial ruin, foreclosure and far worse! Then the sheriff fingers  a champion stallion as a killer….but Bryn believes otherwise. Where there are horses, there is money, deception and powerful secrets.

Can Bryn unmask the real murderer before the stallion gets a lethal injection? In the sultry Louisiana heat she roams New Orleans seeking a slayer—in a desperate race to save the stallion. The story drips with sweat, Spanish moss, a voodoo queen, blooded horses and quirky Deep South characters.

 “…vivid and sultry and tumultuous…populated by a Mardi Gras of characters…in which imagination is invited to get up and dance…” Charles Wilkins

The book launch of Foreclosure by Jacqueline D'Acre will be held Feb 1, Wednesday, at the Fireplace Room at the Brodie Street library at 7 PM. Charles Wilkins will be a guest speaker, refreshments will be served and  there will be an author reading followed by a Q & A.

Hope to see you there!

Foreclosure is available now at both Chapters and Northern Woman's Bookstore.

Foreclosure, by Jacqueline D'Acre

Please note: The title of the  book Foreclosure was changed to Hot Blooded Murder in 2018.


Jackie D'Acre's wonderful new mystery novel, Foreclosure, is out. The Thunder Bay launch preparations are on! Stay tuned here for place, date and time. The first chapter will be posted exclusive to this blog. Look for it on Saturday.

Here Jackie D'Acre speaks about her work

I love mysteries. Nevertheless, I was writing mainstream literary fiction and already had one book, Between Extremities, published.

I was wrestling with the dynamics of deeply disturbed characters in a novel I call Middle Class Poverty when a wild thought flashed through my mind: Wouldn’t it be fun to write a mystery—about deeply disturbed characters? Next I wondered: Could I? Mysteries have to be carefully plotted, just enough clues given so a reader can figure out whodunit, but not so many they figure out too soon and hence, spoil the book…could I pull this off?

I knew horses from my years as a breeder and horse commentator; I knew my locale of New Orleans and surrounds, then Bryn Wiley started to form in my head. An amateur detective different from others on the book racks: a writer, a horsewoman, not aggressive, even fearful, but willing to face her fears and challenge physically and emotionally dangerous people…. I gave her red hair, a black poodle, a black horse, a tiny farm and sent to her Lila’s Creole Diner where all the horse people in my fictional St. Tremaine Parish meet.

I started writing…and now you can hold this book in your hand. I hope you enjoy reading it as much I as I did writing it. Thank you! Jacqueline “Jackie” D’Acre.