Catherine Leggitt

Exploring God's mysteries through fiction. Catherine Leggitt first authored a cozy mystery series, the Christine Sterling Mysteries. These books are no longer available on the primary market. Her two stand alone novels, The Road to Terminus, and Dying to Be Noticed are available on Amazon. In addition to writing, she is also an inspirational speaker and presently resides in northern California. Catherine offers one free book to a book club that reads one of her novels. Please email requests for a phone, Skype or Face to Face discussion about her book, or invite her to your book club to answer questions and discuss. Catherine's debut novel, PAYNE & MISERY--the first adventure in the Christine Sterling Mystery series--placed second at the Orange County Christian Writer's Conference in 2010 and was initially published by Westbow Press. In 2012, Ellechor Publishing House picked up the series of three. Within each story, Christine struggles with a spiritual mystery that parallels a physical mystery. In PAYNE & MISERY, Christine learns to stop complaining and choose joy while searching for her missing neighbor, Lila Payne. The second book, THE DUNN DEAL, finds Christine searching for absolute truth as she snoops around the murder of Deputy Baxter Dunn. In the third book, PARRISH THE THOUGHT, Christine discovers her own prejudiced heart while trying to rescue a teenager accused of murdering a prominent Nevada City matron, Bessie Parrish. PARRISH THE THOUGHT made the quarter finals of the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest. The Road to Terminus was published in September of 2015 by Mountainview Books. In The Road to Terminus, three strangers find themselves on a cross-country journey along Route 66 in 1955. One is running away, one seeks meaning and purpose, and the third merely hopes to survive. Dying to be Noticed appeared in October of 2020. Obituary columnist Avenelle Rossi Durprey finagles a plum assignment to cover a homicide with potential to skyrocket her to reporter super-stardom. But as she doggedly gathers facts, a nagging sense of deja vu haunts her. This exact crime happened before, down to the last detail. Soon she is trailed by white trucks wherever she goes. Is finding the truth worth risking her life? During Catherine's first career--after raising children and before caring for her aging parents--she enjoyed teaching in the San Bernardino County public school system, where she developed a flair for playacting and storytelling. Struggling with retirement, Catherine needed a distraction and found it at her keyboard. Today Catherine resides at the edge of a lake in southern Missouri. The perfect place for writing.