Valerie Taylor

Valerie Taylor is living her second career as a writer of contemporary women's fiction. Previously, she enjoyed a thirty-year career in the financial services industry as a marketer and writer. After her divorce, she spread her wings and relocated her career, first to Boston and then to Seattle. When she retired, she resettled in Connecticut, her home state, to be near her two grown children and granddaughter. She's a book reviewer with BookTrib and a member of the Westport Writers' Workshop. She enjoys practicing tai chi and being an expert sports spectator. Her debut novel, What’s Not Said, was published by She Writes Press in September 2020, followed by What's Not True, which was published in 2021. The final book in the trilogy, What's Not Lost, published in February 2023.

Always welcoming a challenge, Valerie ventured into the world of cozy mysteries. A Whale of a Murder: A Venus Bixby Mystery, debuted in April 2024. The second book in the series, Switched at Death: A Venus Bixby Mystery, will release on April 22, 2025.

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