The harshly beautiful landscape of New Zealand -- and the harshly beautiful people of New Zealand -- create a rich environment for this wonderfully talented author.
I'm off to NYC today for BookExpo's Blogger Con! I'm helping my daughter launch an online ebookstore this year, and we're eager to connect with small presses putting out excellent fiction and memoirs.
by experimental novelist/poet Dwight Okita is free today on Kindle!
This month's Reader's Digest features a story about the day Gary and I met, and it's spurred a lot of interest in my memoir, Bald in the Land of Big Hair.
Three melons and a dwarf sat in the front seat of Marilee’s ’72 Dodge, but the cop was not amused.
Gotta love Nancy Atherton's ghostly detective series starring Aunt Dimity and her young (very much alive) protege, Lori.I loved Rocket Citywhen it was first released back in the mid-90s, and I love it still, beginning with the boffo first line: "Three melons and a dwarf sat in the front seat of Marilee's '72 Dodge, but the cop was not amused."Engaging, funny, poignant, surprising. I hope you'll check it out.
However, within my body of work, there are two pairs of books where your enjoyment will be enhanced if you read in order.
Set in Houston, Texas, the first pair is as follows:
1. Fade the Heat 2. Heat Lightning (features the continuing story of Luz Maria Montoya, the sister of Jack Montoya, hero of Fade the Heat.
Set in a small town in the bayou country that straddles the Texas-Louisiana border, the second two include:
1. Beneath Bone Lake 2. Touch of Evil (features Sheriff Justine Wofford, who was investigating the crime in Beneath Bone Lake.
If you're a careful reader, you may find subtler connections between the other stories, too, including secondary characters and locales mentioned/appeared in different books. There's even a fun "secret" connection among some of the epigraphs (the quotes that head up many of the chapters in the Montlake books) that my editor was unaware of until I pointed it out. For now, I'm keeping it a secret, but if you figure it out, be sure to post in the comments!
For those preferring to read in the order the books were originally written, here's that list as well:
Published by Montlake (Originally by Dorchester Publishing) 1. Fatal Error 2. Fade the Heat 3. The Deadliest Denial 4. Heat Lightning 5. Head On 6. The Salt Maiden 7. Triple Exposure 8. Beneath Bone Lake 9. Touch of Evil
Published by Harlequin. This books are a bit shorter, but all of them include the same blend of romance and suspense my other books are know for. 1. Deadlier than the Male (My novella, Lethal Lessons, appears with Sharon Sala's The Fiercest Heart.) 2. Capturing the Commando 3. Phantom of the French Quarter 4. Relentless Protector 5. Passion to Protect
Another book, The Colton Heir, is coming from Harlequin Romantic Suspense in November 2013.
Whether you're in it for the mystery, the suspense, the romance, of all three, thanks so much for your interest in my books, and I hope you'll find these lists helpful! Please let me know if I can help with other questions.
In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him. Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual “There!”—yet at the brink of this story he has as yet gone no further than the conscious stage. As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not without honour and slightly mad… on Kindle for the sickening price of 99 cents.
John o'Hara's debut novel Appointment in Samarrahas been rereleased with original art! How cool is that?
, you must read this wonderfully well written story about marriage, love, hate and torpor in the American suburbs circa 1934.