KILLING TIME is about a thirty-five-year-old female preppy turned fifteen, a desert football star turned FBI agent, a mob-connected chorine turned informant, a gang of shit kickers, a set of country clubbers, the Hopi Indians, and a twenty-year effort to make East meet West. It is also about love, loss, reconciliation, and hope.

KILLING TIME offers something for everyone: drama, humor, love, sex, mystery, murder--and woven throughout, the soul of the novel, The Hopi Way of Life.

Roberta Parry was born in upper state New York to parents from Arizona. She has lived in Arizona, California, North Carolina, Indiana, NYC, Colorado, New Jersey, and New Mexico. In addition to novels and short stories, she has written plays, film scripts, and education curriculum materials. She studied with Philip Appleman at Indiana University, Dick (J. R.) Humphreys at Hunter College, and Walter James Miller at NYU. She has also been greatly influenced by the writings of William Gaddis, Cormac McCarthy, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Two of Ms. Parry's four plays won awards and received full production. As an artist and poet, she has completed a picture book and 50 silk screens with poems. She created the cover and illustrations for her short story collection FEMME TALES. Her watercolor paintings are currently being shown in galleries and public exhibit spaces in Santa Fe, NM.