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So far, Gail has written fifteen books.

Four are in the Media Mysteries series, each in a different media world, including broadcast TV, movies, community newspapers, and social media. Future books in this series will solve mysteries in radio, and in book publishing.

The second book in this series, A Bird in the Sand (2018), won the Florida Writers Association Bronze Award in the Mystery category in 2020.

The third book, Sleeping Dogs Lie (2022) won a Royal Palm Literary Award in the Mystery category in 2022.

Her Resorting Series books are light, cozy-mystery crime fiction novels set in various resort locations around the world. The third, Resorting to Fraud, published in 2020, won a Florida Writers Association Silver award. A collection titled Resorting to Short Stories was published in 2021.

In addition to her fiction, Gail has written five travel memoirs within her Rumble Strip series. Four are based on her own travels across North America and Europe. The fifth, Rumble Strip World (2020), is a collection of interviews, quotations, and thoughts about memorable road trips taken by others in vans, classic cars, SUVs, RVs, on bicycles, motorcycles, and scooters, in sixteen countries on four continents.

Gail has also written two nonfiction books: 100 Ways to Shine in the Media Spotlight and 100 Ways to Win NaNoWriMo.

Media Mysteries

Resorting Series

RumbleStrip Series

The Media Mysteries

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When prominent TV broadcaster Keith Papineau falls from a high-rise apartment balcony in Vancouver, Canada, his work colleagues and the police are quick to conclude that he took his own life. But Chelan Montgomery, the young reporter who hung out with him on his last night, is convinced that he was pushed, and when his teenage son asks her to uncover the truth, her curiosity and her journalistic skills propel her onto a trail that leads through mansions, office towers, and ski chalets to a final confrontation near a black diamond run at Whistler.

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When a priceless heirloom disappears from a movie set during filming in Savannah, Georgia, and suspicion falls on her father, visiting journalist Nevada Leacock steps up to find the answers. Book 2 of the Media Mystery series.
This mystery/thriller won the Bronze Award in the Royal Palm Literary Awards in the Mystery category. It begins more than five hundred years ago but it quickly moves from historical fiction to a contemporary world, and a woman in her forties becomes an amateur sleuth, trying to answer the questions that have arisen because of the theft of a golden bird pendant

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Lillian Howe, living alone and convincing herself she likes it, discovers a body under the bushes in a park near a southwest Florida beach. It is a beautiful dog, its head battered, and its back legs bound with a black belt. When Lillian exposes the killing in her newspaper column, she becomes the target of arson, a pack of ferocious dogs, and a vicious attack on her own precious pet. A gripping tale of mystery, suspense, and long-buried secrets, Sleeping Dogs Lie melds community newspapers, dog lovers, Florida beaches, and the Everglades in Book 3 of Gail Hulnick’s Media Mysteries series.

The Resorting Series

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It’s a perfect, sparkling, turquoise morning on St. Croix, that jewel of an island in the Caribbean. The palms are swaying and the rum is running sweet. But the taste in resort services director Nola Stewart’s mouth is distinctly sour. Two new guests – the first, quiet, intriguing, the other, loud and obnoxious – have just checked in. Together they’re turning the beach, the pool and the weekly Pirate’s Feast into a four-alarm food fiasco. Then, as one of them turns the heat at the annual KweeZeenArtZ chef competition up to a high rolling boil it would seem that murder is on the menu.

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Along the scenic back roads of coastal Georgia and South Carolina, the live oaks and Spanish moss wave gently on the breeze. But are the dappled shade and lowcountry quiet ready for the ragtag collection of wannabe race drivers, gearheads and grease monkeys taking a hairpin turn to glory? Short the bucks it would take to join a real car rally, these not-ready-for-prime-time car jocks have concocted their own motorsports extravaganza. But as the revs build, valuable items begin to disappear. Do the fast fingers belong to the disgraced Formula 1 driver? The bleach blonde? Or maybe the meddling mother-in-law? When the checkered flag finally drops, is it grand prix or grand theft?

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Rickey T. is livin’ the life. The rock-n-roll icon has the groupies, the gold and the glamor that come with four decades of sold-out tours and platinum albums. Booker, his long-suffering manager, and Cosmo, founder and long-time President of The Rickets fan club have been along for the whole riotous ride, with the amplifiers cranked up to eleven. But could a secret decision, made back in the day, be sending the melody off-key? On the night of his lifetime achievement award the glitz and glam are at full wattage. The lights are coming up and the opening riff of the power ballad is kicking in when four zany strangers storm the stage. Is Rickey prepared for things to get seriously out of tune?

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The pool deck of a Florida resort. The beachfront of a Dominican Republic all-inclusive. The garden of a Spanish destination wedding hotel. Just a few of the settings for these stories, each touching on what some would call crime and some would call entertainment. Gail Hulnick explores mystery, romance, thriller, and the paranormal in this collection of ideas that sent her resorting to short stories.

The Rumble Strip Series

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In the summer of 2017 two intrepid expat Canadians set out to fulfill a lifelong dream of driving their home and native land from coast-to-coast. Starting at the eastern-most point of North America, they dropped the top on the aging convertible and headed west in search of Canadian experience, identity, culture, landscape, music and moose, in celebration of Canada’s 150^th anniversary. Three weeks, ten provinces and 7,800 kilometers later they pulled up to the (ironically labeled and mysteriously duplicated) Mile Zero in Victoria, British Columbia. Rumble Strip Canada 150 is the story of this eye-opening, life-affirming, joyous, and sometimes silly adventure.

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When you’re not in a hurry to get from one place to another, a road trip can become one of the most enjoyable things ever. In this collection of side-road journeys in 25 of the United States, Gail Hulnick takes you from the top of a mountain in Vermont to a desert in California . . . with many stops in between.

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In the spring of 2019, novelist and travel writer Gail Hulnick set off on a scouting trip through France, Italy, Monaco and Switzerland, in search of a new place to call home. Ride along as she and the Zig, her husband/road trip expert, explore side roads in Provence, Tuscany, and the Alps. Includes 46 black and white photographs.

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In the spring of 2019, when border crossings were easy and pandemics were the stuff of fiction, travel enthusiast and writer Gail Hulnick embarked on a road trip that cruised from the canals of Brussels, Bruges and Amsterdam to the castles and bridges of Luxembourg. With Zig, her driver, traveling companion and husband, she roamed the history-rich countries that make up the region known as Benelux: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. Come along for the breezy ride past farm fields and windmills, the breakneck final dash to Hamburg and the elegant crossing back to New York aboard the Queen Mary 2.

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It’s 2020, the world is in lockdown, and the wanderer in each of us is itching to go somewhere. While we can’t hop on a plane to explore exotic locations, we can ride along on some amazing, moving, hilarious and memorable road trips. Road trips through Africa, Alaska, Iceland, Romania, India, Thailand, the US and the Canadian Rockies. Brushes with the authorities in the Netherlands, New Mexico and while crossing international borders. Journeys taken by motorcycles, camper vans, sports cars, RV’s, SUV’s, a rock band tour bus and even a converted bookmobile. Travelers accompanied by young dogs, old dogs, stray dogs and insane dogs. Award-winning novelist and travel writer, Gail Hulnick, interviewed dozens of intrepid travelers about their best road trip memories. And she shares their experiences in their own voices from the road.