The Author - Chip Michie Chip Bowring Michie has been a journalist all her working life. She started on The Star Newspaper in Johannesburg. Later, when her children were born, she became magazine features writer for Garden and Home. After completing her BA at Wits University, she became features editor if Living and Loving Magazine, in l978. Other national magazines, as features editor, followed. To steep herself in the industry in l989 she became an advertising and promotions editor. In l991 she dropped out of writing altogether after a severe bout of encephalitis almost destroyed her writing ability. As a Charter Practitioner in public relations, she worked at an historically black university, the University of the North, between l993 and l996. She helped to found the School of Communications to assist graduates gain work in communication posts.	On November 1, 1999 Chip and her CA (SA) husband founded The Investment Centre cc, an investment advisory brokerage for South African and offshore investors. They were top performers within l8 months, and have remained so for the past seven years. On February 20, 2004, a friend of Chip's two daughters, Beth Tomlinson, was brutally murdered in Cape Town. When the police were unable to trace a perpetrator, Chip contacted the private investigator Christian Botha. She did not, however, have enough money to pay him to start an investigation. Chip suggested to Christian that she write a book about some of the cases from his files.Zebra press were interested, commissioned the book and it was published just before Christmas. All the proceeds will go towards finding Beth Tomlinson's killer or killers.	A tragic situation might have brought them together, but their association has developed into a strong friendship with a harmonious work ethic. SEARCH FOR TRUTH - True stories from South Africa's leading private investigator, is the result of their collaboration and will be on book shelves in March 2010. When Chip is not busy writing, she reads to the children at the Methodist Primary School in Somerset West three times a week. She is passionate about her literacy programme that she runs. Chip finds the time to make all her guests feel welcome in her charming self catering establishment called The Dolphin Cottages - Somerset West. Zebra press were interested, commissioned the book and it was published just before Christmas. All the proceeds will go towards finding Beth Tomlinson's killer or killers.	CONTACT: Address: P O Box 665, Somerset West, 7129 South Africa Phone: 021 851 9248 Fax: 086 510 1290 E-Mail: Chip.michie@gmail.com