Weekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday, all! This week I retreated back into the village of Taviscombe with Mrs. Malory, the Jessica Fletcher of 1990s England. I am ridiculously addicted to these vintage cozy mysteries, although I’ve been trying to pace myself so I don’t read them all up too quickly. This week, it was Superfluous Death, involving dodgy…
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Happy Friday, all! I started the week with a recent thriller: Sarah Vaughn’s Based on a True Story, in which an elderly and beloved children’s book author summons her family, friends, and colleagues for a 70th birthday bash at her newly purchased (and, of course, isolated and cliffside) estate in Cornwall, while a BBC documentary…
Read MoreTWO WARS Discussion Questions
Tonight, I’m meeting with a book club to talk about Two Wars and a Wedding— and I had one of those awful moments that sometimes happen to authors where I realized it’s been five books since I wrote Two Wars and I don’t remember my own characters’ names. So I did what one does and…
Read MoreSee you in Connecticut on Thursday!
I’m poking my head out of the writing cave for one special in person book event this summer: Oliver Wolcott Library in Litchfield, CT! Join me this Thursday, July 9th, at 6:30 pm at Oliver Wolcott Library at 160 South Street, Litchfield, CT. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is…
Read MoreA Triple Threat: Three Books on Sale!
It’s an embarrassment of riches! For the holiday weekend, not one, not two, but three of my books are on sale! Do you want to spend the holiday in the early days of our Republic, in 1800 NYC with Burr and Hamilton? Then The Girl from Greenwich Street is for you. Would you rather head…
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Happy Friday, all! My surprise hit this week was Emma Garman’s The Kindness of Strangers. A murder in a boarding house in 1950s London…. I’d been lukewarm on the premise, but I wound up gobbling up the book in one marathon late night session. The characters might sound like stock figures: the boarding house owner,…
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Read MoreGirl from Greenwich Street $2.99!
It’s an unexpected e-book sale! For this weekend only, you can grab The Girl from Greenwich Street e-book for $2.99— — and then check out the Girl from Greenwich Street Readers’ Guide for historical background, Q&A, recipes and more. Celebrate our nation’s founding by watching Hamilton and Burr bicker in the courtroom! (Huge thanks to…
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Happy Friday, all! There’s something very special about getting to read, in all its shiny bookish glory, a book you saw in progress. I was lucky to be a member of the magical Deer Mountain Writers Retreat a couple of years ago (fighting my way through the early chapters of What Happens at Nightfall). One…
Read MoreTHE GIRL FROM GREENWICH STREET Readers’ Guide!
I am delighted to present to you a Readers’ Guide for The Girl from Greenwich Street— now with clickable links! In this guide, you’ll find discussion questions, maps, pictures, historical background, misconceptions about the case, Q&A, recipes, and recommended reading. Are there categories or details you wanted to see that aren’t in here? Let me…
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