Smelling money in her perfume, George Kocharyan, the
middle aged Armenian owner of the dingy looking office of
Cambridge Confidential Services, gladly welcomes what he
hopes to be his newest client. He could tell at a glance
that Sylvia Booker is part of the elite world of the
famous Cambridge Read more...
Things are starting to look good for Darko Dawson as he relaxes and enjoys a day in the park with his wife Christine and his two beloved sons, Sly and Hosiah. Sly had been adopted from a life on the streets of Accra, the capital of Ghana, and he Read more...
What happens when an invader pretends to be someone else?
In the quick and speedy sound bite news of today, people
and countries will react to what they think is happening
and they seldom take the time to really analyze what is
going. Poland has been set up to look Read more...
Is lunch the best part of your day? If yes, then you
will relish having a taste of COMICS SQUAD #2: LUNCH with
your meal. If you start smirking and laugh, other kids
will come over to see what is so funny. If your mouth
is full, you will have Read more...
Life is filled with transitions. Some are joyful and some
are not. Known only to a few humans, the small circle of
cats with the special ability to converse with humans are
going through their own cycle of life transitions. In the
charming vacation town of Molena Point on the Read more...
Code words work well when someone is around to hear them...
but if they are not there, things can get tricky very
fast. As the youngest agent on the FBI Art Crime Team,
28-year-old Serena Jones does her best to stay on the
right side of being feisty Read more...
As if being overwhelmed with all-consuming grief and the
loss of her beloved husband are not enough, Susannah
Gilmore is confronted with the economic realities of
supporting her two children on her own and the snarky
barbs of her sixteen-year-old daughter Cally who is
intent on blaming Read more...
You cannot imagine the thrill I experienced when I
finally got my hands on a new book by one of my all-time
favourite writers and so beloved by many, many fans
around the world. When I eagerly opened and read the
introduction to Maeve Binchy's A FEW OF Read more...
With her
sharp intellect and extensive knowledge, Detective
Inspector Vera
Stanhope quickly
realizes the strange stabbing of an elderly, yet
still elegant woman on a crowded metro train is not
going to be a simple murder case. Who was Margaret
Krukowski? Why was she on the train full of Christmas Read more...
Gwen Marcey couldn't help noticing how pretty the
hayfield meadow by the abandoned farm next to her place
in Copper Creek, Montana looked with its white daisies
and purple lupines in bloom. She had almost forgotten
she had painted a watercolour of that scene for an
art show nearly Read more...
Eleven-year-old Brigid Howley remembers a time when her ma
had
smiled and laughed, but
that was long ago. Now, she does her bit to make life
easier for her parents and cooks and cleans for them.
They have had more than their fair share of bad luck or Read more...
Joe picks up the frying pan, sends it flying across the
room
and it smashes into the kitchen wall as Joe's grown
children
over for their usual family Sunday dinner stare on in
shocked silence. What is happening to their normally
peace-loving father?
In his Irish Catholic Charlestown Read more...
Young people can be very optimistic by what they can
accomplish in a short period of time, but Dooley Kavanagh
and Lace Harper have gone
whole hog...or at least a whole, huge bull by the name of
Choo-Choo, soon to arrive at their farm they
had recently taken Read more...
Special Agent Joe Evers knows his time on the squad at
the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Albuquerque, New Mexico
is nearly over. What an inglorious end to his career!
After Christine, his beloved wife, was killed two years
earlier, Joe has been lost in grief and let the bottle Read more...
Eleven-year-old Lev Meyer's world is full of wonder as
he strives to make sense of small, but intriguing
changes. Why is Alex Caufin in his class, filling his
notebook with zeros and ones, when it is supposed to be a
writing journal? Is it a secret code Read more...
For a change, Lady Victoria Georgiana "Georgie"
Charlotte Eugenie Rannoch's life is in good form. She is
not stuck in Scotland in Castle Rannoch and is
enjoying the comforts of London life, nicely nestling in a
delightful mews home courtesy of her friend Belinda who
is off seeking her Read more...
Being a royal is not always a piece of cake. Despite
the comfort of Kingsdowne Place in Kent, Lady Victoria
Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie Rannoch (or Georgie) is a
little bored. She is stuck here as it is hard to get a
real job in the depression of 1934. She doesn Read more...
As the Great War drags on with all its misery in the
autumn of 1918, Nursing Sister Bess Crawford is glad to
have made a safe passage across to Dover from France. She
is exhausted but glad they had not lost any of the
severely injured soldiers on the way Read more...
From an intro college class to a female wolf's cave near
a small stream over thirty thousand years ago,
bestselling writer W. Bruce Cameron takes us on an epic
and evocative journey back to the brutal and harsh
reality of life over 30,000 years ago in Paleolithic
times Read more...
Despite the enjoyment of his peaceful and happy
retirement and life in the small village of Three Pines,
the former Head of Homicide for the Sûreté du Québec
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache confronts the inevitable
debate of active people in early retirement. Should he
stay retired or take Read more...
Audrey Lawrence
Ever since I taught myself to read at
age two, I have been an avid reader
and
collector of books. I am seldom
without a book in my hand, stacks by
my
bedside and more waiting on my Kindle,
so I am very happy to be a book
reviewer for FreshFiction and have
been
so since the last century. How can you
tell I love historical fiction? Other
book genres I love are regency
romances, suspense thrillers,
contemporary fiction, more romance
books and anything I can get my hands
on! Having a background in education
and organizational development, I also
love to read kids’ books and YA and
books on business.
I currently live in the National
Capital Region of Canada (aka Ottawa)
where Tinkerbelle, my beautiful
Siamese
cat, rules the roost and reminds us
every day of her regal heritage,
especially when she wants treats! As
the saying goes: dogs may have owners,
but cats have staff!
Great comments and questions! I have just started in on INTO THE WHIRLWIND but only complaint is that I do not want to put it down ... how am I going to get all my errands done when I need to know what happens next?
That is just so grand that you are naming characters in your book with your ancestors' names. I love it when I know the special meaning behind the names. I look forward to reading it.
I found out from family lore that my mother's family comes from a former shield bearer to a 12th century Irish king but I think that has been the last irish connection as the rest is all Scottish. Thank goodness everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day!
That is so Purr-fect of Avon to make a donation! I can appreciate your lemma (slightly less critical than a dilemma) as to what to do! It is up to you but remember a cookie in each hand is a balanced diet!
All teh best with your new book and Avon's kindness!
Oh, as you can see from all these comments that not only do you write incredibly well but you also spin your readers so convincingly to the period of your tale that they feelas if they are there as well!
I have to admit, I love your books, but I had to stop reading them on the bus as I would get so engrossed in the story that I would miss my stop and have to walk home more than I expected. I quite look forward to reading your newest one!
Oh, a hero to fall into sweet dreams with! Sounds wonderful and I especailly like that he is willing to apologize. It takes a strong person to acknowledge that a situation may need an apology. True heros think about the needs of others before themsleves!
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