Book Cover: The Madness of Ida Mae

A woman unable to conceive a child, struggles to accept her husband’s infidelity and a child by
another woman. A man’s lengthy isolation on a deserted beach drives him to the brink of
insanity and an unspeakable act. A desperate, elderly woman who loses her husband resorts to
changing her appearance to a famous movie star in order to win him back. A wealthy recluse
hires a young artist to paint him as King Ludwig II, who he believes is his doppelganger. A
woman hung in a shameful event from the past returns to right history through the author who
is writing about her.

Author Christine Bagley

Christine Bagley is a short story fiction writer and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University. She was a 2016 fiction contributor to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, she also attended The Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill writing workshop. From 2011 to 2019 she taught writing and presentation skills to foreign national physicians and scientists at the Schepens Eye Research Institute (SERI), affiliate of Harvard Medical School. She is the former editor of The Medical Services Review for Massachusetts General Hospital, and Eye Contact for SERI. Bagley is also the co-editor and co-publisher of Crime Spell Books. Her short stories have appeared in Briar Cliff Review, Bryant Literary Review, Untoward Magazine, and Fiction on the Web, UK. Additional work includes: eight stories in Best New England Crime Stories published by Level Best Books, and two stories in Best New England Crime Stories published by Crime Spell Books. Bagley was also a finalist for the 2012 Al Blanchard Short Crime Fiction Award. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Short Mystery Fiction Society, and Sisters in Crime.