Weekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday, all! And happy almost Valentine’s Day! This week, the stand out read for me was an advance copy of Piper Huguley’s By Her Own Design, about dress designer Ann Lowe, who designed dresses for Olivia de Havilland and Jacqueline Kennedy among many, many others. Biographical fiction is tough to do well, but this…
Read MoreTHE GLASS OCEAN $2.99! (Plus NEWPORT excerpt.)
From now through Valentine’s Day, you can sail The Glass Ocean with socialite Caroline, con woman Tess, and mysterious Englishman Robert for the low price of $2.99! The Glass Ocean is on sale in e-form until February– now with the first ever sneak peek excerpt from the upcoming Team W book, The Lost Summers of…
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Happy Friday, all! I’ve spent another week immersed in the late 18th/early 19th century with the Manhattan Well Murder– but I did sneak away from 1800 New York to 1960s England with the latest in Elly Griffiths’s Brighton Mysteries, The Midnight Hour, in which an aging theatre impressario is murdered with rat poison and the…
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Happy Friday, all! Is it embarrassing to admit that I don’t remember what I read this week? Mostly, I’ve been in a happy research haze, devouring anything I can find about the Manhattan Well Murder of 1799– the topic of the book I’m working on now. The case was New York’s first big sensational murder…
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Happy Friday, all! Do you ever have those weeks where you just can’t settle to a book? I started the week with an Agatha Christie anthology, Midwinter Murder, which suited my lack of attention span perfectly since the stories were short enough to read one by one in little snippets, and included a few Poirots…
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Happy Friday from the frozen Hudson Valley where I’ve been working on Cuba book revisions and supervising Zoom school! Between revisions and remote school, I’ve been going in heavily for comfort reads this week. I kicked off the New Year with a theme read of Patricia Wentworth’s The Clock Strikes Twelve, in which Miss Silver…
Read MorePink Carnation Read Along Month 10: THE PASSION OF THE PURPLE PLUMERIA
Dust off your purple parasols! Miss Gwen is here to shake away the January blues– or skewer away the January blues, as the case may be. It’s time for Pink X, The Passion of the Purple Plumeria, with special guest co-host Andrea Penrose! Join us on Thursday, January 27th, at 8pm ET, to discuss spies,…
Read MoreThat Demmed Elusive… Band of Sisters?
Happy holidays, all! And happy almost New Year! Here’s hoping 2022 will be a healthy and happy one. In the meantime, Band of Sisters seems to have gone full Pimpernel– you have to seek it here and seek it there to find the hardcover or pre-order the paperback! The hardcover IS still sold out at…
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Happy Friday, all! It’s hard to believe we’re only a week from Christmas when it’s sixty degrees in New York. Between that and my preschooler being back in quarantine, there’s a bit of a Never Never Land, which-day-is-it-again? feel right now, and this week’s reading is equally without theme. I started off with Margaret Rogerson’s…
Read MorePink Carnation Read Along Holiday Edition– Tonight!
It’s time to discuss spies in the mince pies and what happens after the happily ever after in tonight’s holiday edition of the Pink Carnation Read Along with super special guest co-host Stephanie Barron! The Zoom links will go out this afternoon. Up until then, you can register here. If you would like to attend,…
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