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A Killing Too Close to Home is now available on Kindle.


May 7, 2015​

News

A Killing Too Close to Home is now published and available on Amazon.com and CreateSpace Store.


May 1, 2015​

November 1st - 30th, 2016

Slaughter on Sanibel Island is now available on www.amazon.com or https://www.createspace.com/5733309.

June 20, 2015

August 12th -14th, 2016

Arianna Archer's blog is live.

March 30, 2017

Libraries can be Lethal is on sale now at www.Amazon.com.

August 20th - 23rd, 2015

June 2018

October 15, 2015

March 1, 2018

Author attended Writer's Police Academy in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

For the month of November a portion of the proceeds from every sale of the book or Kindle versions of A Killing Too Close to Home will be donated to the Go Red Campaign.

April 21, 2016

Girls' Night Out on Monday, November 20th at 7 pm at Irish Times in Brookfield.  Discussion on and reading from Slaughter on Sanibel Island$5 burger and fries night.

Author attended Writer's Police Academy in Appleton, Wisconsin.

Karen Berg-Raftakis

October 2, 2015

August 2019

November 8, 2017

The Kindle version of Libraries can be Lethal is now available on Amazon.

On Saturday, November 26th, author will be at Centuries & Sleuths from 10 am - 12 pm with other authors celebrating independent bookstores.

Author donates two sets of the Arianna Archer Murder Mystery Series to Heritage Woods Assisted Living Facility.

November 20, 2017

New Arianna Archer Blog

(Updated 8/14/19)

A Killing Too Close to Home was recently reviewed by Self-Publishing Review.  Click on link below to read it.

Writing & Self-Publishing:  What I Wish Somebody Had Told Me- North Riverside Public Library Presentation on Wednesday, November 8th at 6:30 pm.

April 2018

November 26, 2016

Slaughter on Sanibel Island Kindle version is now available on Amazon.

A Killing Too Close to Home is now available at both Brookfield and Riverside IL libraries.

​​August 2022

September 2023

On Thursday, March 30th at 7pm, author will be discussing and signing her latest book Slaughter on Sanibel Island at the Brookfield Public Library. It’s free, but you must register first by calling (708) 485 - 6917 x130.

March 9, 2016

In the month of October, for every sale of A Killing Too Close to Home through either

this website or Amazon.com, a dollar will be donated towards breast cancer research.

Author sold and signed books at "Authors Under the Awning" at Centuries and Sleuths Bookstore in Forest Park, IL. All four books are now available for purchase there.

3.5 Stars

Author announces a new Arianna Archer murder mystery - A Drive Towards Danger is in the works!

​​​Author is donating a copy of her latest book Libraries can be Lethal as well as some other goodies for a raffle to benefit the Ride Janie Ride Foundation.

July 21, 2016

You can now buy the author's poetry collection:  And the Days Go By:  Twenty-Five Years of Poetry (1988-2013) through the Amazon link on the bottom of the Home Page.