Can you solve a murder with "acoustic" clues?

Sylvia Massara, novelist and host of the popular literary show, The Lit Chick Show, features mystery author Patricia Rockwell and her book "The Sounds of Murder". This is the first of a series of “Pamela Barnes acoustic mysteries”, where the main character solves murders by using acoustic clues.

Patricia Rockwell has spent most of her life teaching. She has taught virtually everything related to Communication--from a fine arts speech-theatre orientation to more recently, a social science research approach. Her Bachelors' and Masters' degrees are from the University of Nebraska in Speech and her Ph.D. is from the University of Arizona in Communication. She was on the faculty at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette for thirteen years, retiring in 2007.

Her publications are extensive, with over 20 peer-reviewed articles in scholarly journals, several textbooks, and a research book on her major interest area of sarcasm, published by Edwin Mellen Press. In addition to publications, she has presented numerous papers at academic conferences and served for eight years as Editor of the Louisiana Communication Journal. Her research focuses primarily on several areas of communication: deception, sarcasm, and vocal cues.

Dr. Rockwell is presently living in Aurora, Illinois, with her husband Milt, also a retired educator. The couple has two adult children. SOUNDS OF MURDER is her first novel.