becke_davis wrote:
Carolyn has had some trouble posting here before, so I'm going to post this on her behalf.
Check out her website here: http://www.carolynhart.com/
ESCAPE FROM PARIS -- For the first time ever the complete and unabridged edition!
Long ago, in what almost seems now like another life, I wrote World War II suspense novels. I was a child n the 1940s and the war dominated our lives. Everything hinged on the war. Food and gasoline were rationed. Family members served in the Army or Navy. We followed the faraway course of the fighting in huge black newspaper headlines.
Among my first works of fiction are several books set during the war. ESCAPE FROM PARIS tells the story of two American sisters in Paris who help British fliers escape from Occupied France, knowing the Gestapo has decreed death for resistance. The book offers a glimpse of lives touched by war in 1940.
This was a period when I was only able to sell books to a small publisher in England. To sell ESCAPE FROM PARIS, I had to cut the book from 93,000 to 55,000 words and that's how the book appeared in the 1982 edition.
This month, to my great delight, Oconee Spirit Press is publishing the original manuscript. It has been 30 years in coming but finally the full book is available.
I hope readers will share the struggles of the brave men and women who defied the Gestapo during the bitter winter of 1940 in Occupied Paris. They knew fear, found love, grieved loss. Their lives and deaths remind us that freedom survives only when the free are brave.
Read an excerpt from Escape From Paris (in PDF)
Get Book Club Discussion Questions for Escape From Paris (in PDF)
Recipes From the Homefront (in PDF)
Readers share their memories of WWII (in PDF)
Share your own memories of WWII with us. Just send an email to chart@carolynhart.com with your strongest memories of the era. Please let us know whether we may use your memory and name when we update WWII Memories.
I want to share this with you all:
Hidden Summit (Virgin River Series #15)
Join me at General Fiction for a Q&A with Robyn Carr about her new release
Here's my review if you missed it
http://thereadingfrenzy.blogspot.com/2011/12/revie
dhaupt wrote:
Hidden Summit (Virgin River Series #15)
Join me at General Fiction for a Q&A with Robyn Carr about her new release
Here's my review if you missed it
http://thereadingfrenzy.blogspot.com/2011/12/revie
w-of-hidden-summit-by-robyn-carr.html
Thanks for the reminder, Debbie - I'll be right over!
Here's a new release of some old favorites:
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Presents Fifty Years of Crime and Suspense .
basson_mommy12 wrote:
Here's a new release of some old favorites:
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Presents Fifty Years of Crime and Suspense .
I have a lot of those old anthologies on my keeper shelves still.
I am pretty sure I missed adding my release from Dec 15 here...due to being overwhelmed with the release itself and the holidays! The second book in my urban fantasy series (a murder mystery is the heart of the story) has been released!
Under Witch Aura There’s an ill wind blowing in Santa Fe, and it’s touching every witch Adriel knows, including White Feather, who is far more important to Adriel than just any warlock. In search of answers, she delves into ancient magic, a family secret and dangerous religious rituals. Whoever is manipulating the elements appears to be after the ultimate goal: forbidden power over life and death.
Adriel will go to the ends of the earth to keep those she loves safe, but if she lures the enemy away, will she be able to save herself? Her only hope is to use earth magic to hide from the very air she breathes as she hunts down an unseen and untenable evil.
The paperback should start showing up at B&N in a week or two (do not ask me why it takes so long. It is the mysterious ways of the publishing business. Personally I think the postman sits and reads all the books before delivery...)
Happy New Year!!!
BearMountainBooks wrote:
I am pretty sure I missed adding my release from Dec 15 here...due to being overwhelmed with the release itself and the holidays! The second book in my urban fantasy series (a murder mystery is the heart of the story) has been released!
Under Witch Aura There’s an ill wind blowing in Santa Fe, and it’s touching every witch Adriel knows, including White Feather, who is far more important to Adriel than just any warlock. In search of answers, she delves into ancient magic, a family secret and dangerous religious rituals. Whoever is manipulating the elements appears to be after the ultimate goal: forbidden power over life and death.
Adriel will go to the ends of the earth to keep those she loves safe, but if she lures the enemy away, will she be able to save herself? Her only hope is to use earth magic to hide from the very air she breathes as she hunts down an unseen and untenable evil.
The paperback should start showing up at B&N in a week or two (do not ask me why it takes so long. It is the mysterious ways of the publishing business. Personally I think the postman sits and reads all the books before delivery...)
Happy New Year!!!
Congrats on the new release, Maria! I've noticed books tend to appear on Smashwords first, and then on B&N. Not sure why that is.
P.S. I have just had my first book published. It is so new I don't even have my copies yet, except for the originals sent for me to proof.
The book is PS: I'm Innocent. The story follows a young woman as her situation becomes first bad then horrible.
As a new employee for the Sanibel Island Environmental Conservancy in Florida, Lizzie Grant thinks she has it made. She is helping to preserve wildlife and working on a Florida beach. Life is finally good – but it won’t stay that way for long.
One night while researching sea turtles on the beach, Lizzie sees illegal aliens being brought ashore by a smuggler. Her accidental observation leads to her being threatened and stalked by the smuggler until he suddenly shows up dead in her apartment, and Lizzie is wanted for his murder.
With the help of a semi-retired Mafia don named Joey, Lizzie tries to uncover evidence to clear her name. She eventually finds out the illegal aliens are being used as slave labor on a farm next to her boyfriend’s wildlife refuge, where he keeps Agnes, a friendly Florida panther and other large cats.
Lizzie becomes a prisoner on the slave labor farm, where a forced marriage is planned.
Pursued by police and by men who want to kill her, Lizzie is running out of time. Will Lizzie find the strength and courage to fight her way free and prove her innocence?
Pineapple Grenade (Serge Storms Series #15)
Get your Hawaiian shirt out of the closet and mix a strong cocktail because Tim Dorsey is back with his gloriously unrepentant Florida serial killer, Serge Storms, in PINEAPPLE GRENADE: A Novel (William Morrow; On-sale: January 24, 2012).
In this latest laugh-riot thriller Serge has finagled his way into becoming a secret agent in Miami, spying for the president of a banana republic. Will he still have time for a cocktail before Homeland Security brings him down?
It’s always a wild ride when Dorsey’s at the wheel, and with PINEAPPLE GRENADE he delivers his most explosively hilarious road trip to date.
*Tim will tour through Florida and head out on a national tour to Dayton, Columbus, Denver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas, Austin and Houston. The grand finale of the tour is a Serge-Stock Caribbean Cruise out of Tampa on the Carnival Legend.
When Elves Attack (Serge Storms Series #14)
Pineapple Grenade (Serge Storms Series #15)
Electric Barracuda (Serge Storms Series #13)
Gator A-Go-Go (Serge Storms Series #12)
Atomic Lobster (Serge Storms Series #10)
Nuclear Jellyfish (Serge Storms Series #11)
Florida Roadkill (Serge Storms Series #1)
The Big Bamboo (Serge Storms Series #8)
Hurricane Punch (Serge Storms Series #9)
Hammerhead Ranch Motel (Serge Storms Series #2)
Orange Crush (Serge Storms Series #3)
Triggerfish Twist (Serge Storms Series #4)
Torpedo Juice (Serge Storms Series #7)
Cadillac Beach (Serge Storms Series #6)
Overview'
The new ‘Dorothy Martin’ mystery - Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, are on holiday in the idyllic English village of Broadway when they stumble across the body of a man who appears to have fallen down a disused quarry. When it is revealed that the man, a local farmer, was probably pushed over the edge, and that the police have failed to find any suspects or motives for the murder, Dorothy can’t help but get involved . . .
I'm so excited to see a new book by Jeanne M. Dams - I've been a fan of hers for years. I've read almost all of her books, but it looks like there are some cool new editions of some of them. I'm surprised she's not more popular!
The Victim in Victoria Station
The Red, White, and Blue Murders
The Victim in Victoria Station
Gone West (Daisy Dalrymple Series #20)
Overview
A novelist has gone murdered and Daisy Dalrymple investigates— in a series that’s “pleasantly reminiscent of the old-fashioned English mysteries of a bygone era.” —The Denver Post on Gunpowder Plot
In September 1926, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher visits Sybil Sutherby, a school friend now living in Derbyshire as the confidential secretary to a novelist. Suspecting that something is seriously amiss, Sybil has asked Daisy to discretely investigate. Upon arrival, Daisy finds a household of relatives and would-be suitors living off the hospitality of Humphrey Birtwhistle, who had been supporting them through his thriceyearly, pseudonymous Westerns. When he took ill, though, Sybil took over writing them while he recovered, only to see the sales ances increase. Now, she fears that someone in the household is poisoning Birtwhistle to keep him ill and Sybil writing the better-paying versions. But before Daisy can even get decently underway, Humphrey Birtwhistle dies under suspicious circumstances and Daisy now faces a death to untangle, a house full of suspects and a Scotland Yard detective husband who is less than pleased at this turn of events.
Anthem for Doomed Youth (Daisy Dalrymple Series #19)
Sheer Folly (Daisy Dalrymple Series #18)
A Colourful Death (Cornish Mystery Series #2)
Black Ship (Daisy Dalrymple Series #17)
Manna from Hades (Cornish Mystery Series #1)
The Winter Garden Mystery (Daisy Dalrymple Series #2)
Styx and Stones (Daisy Dalrymple Series #7)
Fall of a Philanderer (Daisy Dalrymple Series #14)
Anthem for Doomed Youth (Daisy Dalrymple Series #19)
Manna from Hades (Cornish Mystery Series #1)
Black Ship (Daisy Dalrymple Series #17)
Requiem for a Mezzo (Daisy Dalrymple Series #3)
Murder on the Flying Scotsman (Daisy Dalrymple Series #4)
The Bloody Tower (Daisy Dalrymple Series #16)
The Bloody Tower (Daisy Dalrymple Series #16)
Damsel in Distress (Daisy Dalrymple Series #5)
Black Ship (Daisy Dalrymple Series #17)
To Davy Jones Below (Daisy Dalrymple Series #9)
Gunpowder Plot (Daisy Dalrymple Series #15)
Fall of a Philanderer (Daisy Dalrymple Series #14)
Mistletoe and Murder (Daisy Dalrymple Series #11)
Die Laughing (Daisy Dalrymple Series #12)
Mistletoe and Murder (Daisy Dalrymple Series #11)
Die Laughing (Daisy Dalrymple Series #12)
To Davy Jones Below (Daisy Dalrymple Series #9)
Rattle His Bones (Daisy Dalrymple Series #8)
A Mourning Wedding (Daisy Dalrymple Series #13)
The Case of the Murdered Muckraker (Daisy Dalrymple Series #10)
Dead in the Water (Daisy Dalrymple Series #6)
Styx and Stones (Daisy Dalrymple Series #7)
The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway Series #2)
Breakdown (V. I. Warshawski Series #15)
Killer Crullers (Donut Shop Mystery Series #6)
If Fried Chicken Could Fly (Country Cooking School Mystery Series #4)
File M for Murder (Cat in the Stacks Series #3)
Die Job (Southern Beauty Shop Series #3)
Chocolate Covered Murder (Lucy Stone Series #19)
Cinnamon Roll Murder (Hannah Swensen Series #15)
The Cat Sitter's Pajamas (Dixie Hemingway Series #7)
Heart of Ice (Triple Threat Series #3)
