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Feature Post and Book Review: Killer Motive by Ann Girdharry

Hi, everyone!

I am so excited to share this Feature Post and Book Review for the Happy Publication Day of Ann Gridharry’s new book KILLER MOTIVE! This is the start of a great new series featuring DI David Grant and his team.

Below you will find a book blurb, my book review, the author’s bio and social media links. The plot is riveting and will keep you turning the pages. I am looking forward to following this team on many more investigations and I highly recommend this new crime thriller!

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Book Blurb

When a nurse is murdered, Detective David Grant recognises the hallmarks of a serial killer called Travis.

Twenty-five years ago, Grant caught Travis for the murder of five women and the murderer has been incarcerated ever since. A frail sixty-year-old, Travis is in the terminal stages of cancer. The problem is, he was at the hospital in the custody when the nurse was murdered.

Determined to solve the case, Grant recruits a specialist to his team, Ruby Silver, a top criminal profiler. But Ruby is hiding something from her colleagues.

Who is the copycat killer and what is their motive?

Grant and the team must work quickly to solve the case as the body count rises…

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My Book Review

RATING: 5 out of 5 Stars

KILLER MOTIVE by Ann Girdharry is a riveting start to a new British crime thriller series. This new to me author had me intrigued with all her characters, on-the-edge-of-my-seat with her thriller plot and gave me a chilling in depth look into two serial killers.

DI David Grant is a 25 year veteran of the force with a stellar career and record. He is intelligent and dogged in his pursuit of the truth. When a nurse is found murdered, it bears all the characteristics of a serial killer from Grant’s past. The killer is in the final stages of terminal cancer and at the hospital for treatment when the murder occurred.

Ruby Silver is a research assistant, who is the true author of a highly acclaimed publication on serial killers. Grant recruits Ruby to assist his team, but Ruby has secrets of her own on why she is determined to be on the team.

As DI Grant and Ruby work together to uncover the identity of the copycat killer will they be able to stop him as the body count rises?

I was entirely engrossed in this investigation, the psychological twists and all the characters in this thriller! Ms. Girdharry’s plot was rife with twists, surprises and red herrings that were never over the top, but quite believable. Ruby was an interesting character to add to the mix of a normal police team Her backstory and emotional growth during the investigation pulled you in emotionally and added extra depth to the story. All of the other team members were fully fleshed and I will be looking forward to reading more about them.

I highly recommend this book for a great thriller read and a wonderful new group of characters to follow in future books!

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Author Bio and Social Media Links

Ann Girdharry is a British crime fiction author. Her debut novel, Good Girl Bad Girl, is an Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist and a Readers’ Favourite Five Star Book. 

Trained in psychotherapy, she worked for many years in the not-for-profit sector. She loves to travel. After the UK, she lived in Norway and the USA, and she currently lives in France. 

You can find out more about her books on her website – www.girdharry.com. On her site, Ann also blogs occasionally about life in France and she posts reviews for books she’s enjoyed reading

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14179591.Ann_Girdharry

https://www.bookbub.com/authors/ann-girdharry

Blog Tour/Feature Post and Book Review: Deadly Silence by OMJ Ryan

Hi, everyone!

I am very excited to share my Feature Post and Book Review on my turn for the Blog Tour for OMJ Ryan’s soon to be released new book DEADLY SILENCE (Detective Jane Phillips Book 1). I am racking up quite the number of amazing British police procedural thrillers and female DCI’s I follow and now I have another.

DCI Jane Phillips was first introduced in Deadly Secrets. She is now DI Jane Phillips and a lot has happened in the six months since the climax of Deadly Secrets, but you can read this book as a standalone and not be confused. Jane is now the main character in this new series.

Below you will find a book blurb, my book review and the author’s bio. Enjoy!

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Book Blurb:

Some sins can never be forgiven.

DI Jane Phillips was a star detective driven by a relentless quest for justice. But then she stepped outside the law. 

Now, demoted and suffering with PTSD, she finds herself facing the deadliest threat of her career — a serial killer who is preying on vulnerable women, murdering them in a shocking and bizarre ritual. 

A master of deception, he selects his victims at random. Or so it seems. But as Phillips investigates, she begins to see a method in the killer’s madness. Perhaps these victims aren’t random at all…  

As the pressure mounts, can Phillips find the link between these ritual murders before the killer strikes again — or will her dogged determination to solve the case bring his deadly silence to her door?

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My Book Review:

RATING: 5 out of 5 Stars

DEADLY SILENCE: A gripping serial killer thriller (Detective Jane Phillips Book 1) by OMJ Ryan is the start of a new DCI/DI British police procedural thriller series now featuring DI Jane Phillips and the other detectives from the author’s first book, Deadly Secrets. This book can be easily read as a standalone without any confusion.

The consequences from previous decisions in the pursuit of justice have left DCI Jane Phillips just recuperated from a gunshot wound which almost took her life, demoted to DI, coping with PTSD and dealing with a DCI from her past in charge of her and her team.

A serial killer is preying on women in the quiet town of Cheadle. As Jane and her team investigate the similar gruesome ritual murders, they discover the women are not random, but connected through their Catholic Church.

As the pressure from their new DCI and superiors mount, Jane’s relentless pursuit of justice just may bring the killer to her own door.

I will be adding another engaging, intelligent, strong female British detective to follow on my reading list. I was very happy to see that Jane was given the main character role in this new series. I love her sense of right and wrong and her determination to discover the truth and not just solve a case. I will be looking forward to Mr. Ryan adding more backstory to Jane’s character in future books as well as the rest of her team. DCI Brown is the boss you “love to hate” and I enjoyed finding out why Jane and he are at such odds. The killer was sadistic in his method of murder, but you also felt a small amount of sympathy for him when his motive is revealed. I was not surprised by the killer or his motive for the murders, but the plot and characters are so engaging it did not matter.

This is a fast paced read with the perfect balance of thrills and chills vs. smart detective work. I highly recommend Deadly Silence and I am looking forward to many more books featuring DI Jane Phillips!

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Author Bio:

For the last twenty years I’ve worked in radio and entertainment across the UK and Australia, collaborating with household names, celebrities and music icons, accumulating a host of international writing and radio awards.

And in 2018 I followed my lifelong passion to become a full-time novelist, writing stories for people who devour exciting, fast-paced thrillers by the pool, on their commute – or those rare moments of downtime before bed. My mission is to entertain from the first page to the last.

Hailing from Yorkshire, I’ve lived and worked across the UK in Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, Glasgow, Sydney and Melbourne before settling in the north east of England with my wife and young son.

www.omjryan.com

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Feature Post and Book Review: Crazy Rich Cajuns by Erin Nichols

Hi, everyone!

I am thrilled to share this Feature Post and Book Review for Erin Nicholas’ new CRAZY RICH CAJUNS (Boys of the Bayou Book 4). I have been waiting for Kennedy and Bennett’s story and I am not disappointed!

Below you will find a book blurb, my book review and the author’s bio and social media links. All of the books in this series are short, sexy, hot and HEA romances. Erin Nicholas knows how to bring the heat, fun and heart!

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Book Blurb:

He wears suits and ties. He’ll one day inherit a fortune. He has a law degree. He shines his shoes, for God’s sake. What is she doing attracted to a guy like him? But she is. She so is.

She drives air boats on the bayou, drinks and cusses, and gives city boys in suits a hard time just for fun. Why can’t he get her out of his mind? But he can’t. He definitely can’t.

A weekend trip to Savannah for a fancy-schmancy party with his highfalutin family is the surefire way to prove that they have nothing in common but intense chemistry. And to maybe scratch this I’ve-never-wanted-anyone-like-I-want-you itch once or twice. Or five times.

But it takes only about twenty-four hours for the bayou girl and the city boy to figure out that they don’t really know much at all–about each other, or about themselves. And figuring all of this out is going to be downright crazy.

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My Book Review:

RATING: 5 out of 5 Stars

CRAZY RICH CAJUNS (Boys of the Bayou Book 4) by Erin Nicholas is another great addition to this contemporary romance series, in fact, it is my favorite. For three books we have been getting glimpses of Kennedy and Bennett sparking off of each other and in this book in the series Ms. Nicholas delivers a romance that is everything I was hoping it would be.

Kennedy Landry runs The Boys of the Bayou Tour office. Kennedy dresses like a goth, tattoo and piercings in rebellion of her years in childhood pageants. She runs the office like a general, swears and drinks like a sailor and cares for her extended family and friends with her whole heart. So why does she have this fascination with the new partner in the suit?

Bennett Baxter is rich, runs his own foundation which works on environmental issues especially in the bayou and wants to fit in with the Landry clan in Autre, LA. He is especially attracted to the smart-mouthed goth who runs the tour office.

Bennett invites Kennedy to his father’s retirement party in Savannah over the weekend. Kennedy is not sure how or if she will fit in with Bennett’s society friends, but she sure wants to get Bennett in bed and try to figure out why she craves him to distraction. Bennett wants Kennedy to be herself and show his parents he is not interested in the path they have laid out for him.

What they both find out is that they have explosive sexual chemistry, but they do not know much about each other and still have a few things to find out about themselves. Can these opposites find their HEA?

Kennedy and Bennett are such great characters. Ms. Nicholas surprised me with the romance starting one way and then… plot twist…with both characters growing and changing in a way I did not anticipate. All the situations during the weekend party had me laughing out loud and/or cheering. Ms. Nicholas always gives her characters entertaining, realistic and sexy dialogue that pulls you into the story. Kennedy and Bennett have explicit sex scenes that burn up the pages. (Wait until you read the shower scene. Smokin’!) They also have great sexy texts and dialogue.

All the books can be read as standalone romances, but I recommend you read them all because they are just so much sexy fun and full of love. They are all short, just 12 chapters each and will have you not wanting to stop until the HEA.

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AppleBooks: https://apple.co/2MhIZlq

Amazon Worldwide: http://mybook.to/CrazyRichCajuns

Nook: http://bit.ly/2TBMSTc

Kobo: http://bit.ly/2Z8PB7C

Google Play: http://bit.ly/2Z8oolI

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Author Biography:

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Erin Nicholas has been writing romances almost as long as she’s been reading them. To date, she’s written over thirty sexy, contemporary novels that have been described as “toe-curling,” “enchanting,” “steamy,” and “fun.” She adores reluctant heroes, imperfect heroines, and happily ever afters.

Erin lives in the Midwest, where she enjoys spending time with her husband (who only wants to read the sex scenes in her books), her kids (who will never read the sex scenes in her books), and her family and friends (who claim to be “shocked” by the sex scenes in her books).

Social Media Links:

Website: http://www.erinnicholas.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ErinNicholasAuthor

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ErinNicholas

Blog Blitz/Feature Post and Book Review: Dying To Tell by Keri Beevis

Hi, everyone!

I am very excited to share this Feature Post/Blog Blitz and Book Review for DYING TO TELL by Keri Beevis. This is a suspense/psychological thriller that had me hooked from page one and I cannot believe I have not heard of this author before now.

Below you will find a book blurb, my book review and the author’s biography.

I highly recommend this book and author!

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Book Blurb:

As the only survivor of a horrific car crash, Lila Amberson believes she is on the road to recovery after she is released from the hospital. Her memories of the accident are blurred though and a series of unsettling incidents leave her fearing for her safety. Does she have survivor’s guilt or is something more sinister at play?

Jack Foley is reeling from the shock of losing his sister in the crash and when he first meets Lila, he lashes out, blaming her for Stephanie’s death. But when Lila gives him a locket that she believes belonged to his sister, it presents more questions than answers.

As Lila and Jack work together to find out what really happened on the night of the accident, they are unaware that someone is watching them closely. Someone who has much to lose if the truth comes out, and someone who is prepared to do everything necessary to ensure all loose ends are taken care of.

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My Book Review:

RATING: 5 out of 5 Stars

DYING TO TELL by Keri Beevis is a new suspense filled, psychological thriller that has so many suspects and plot twists, I just had to keep turning the pages long into the night. Ms. Beevis is a new-to-me author who knows how to keep you on the edge of your seat with a well planned, fast paced plot and memorable characters.

Lila Amberson is the sole survivor of a horrific car crash. At first, when she wakes, she has no memories of the accident, but slowly she begins to remember. The more she remembers, the more she has a feeling of dread. After several incidents, she realizes that someone is trying to hurt her and she has no idea who or why.

Jack Foley is a famous thriller writer who lost his youngest half-sister in the accident Lila was involved in. When Lila shows up to pay her respects at his sister’s funeral, Jack is angry and lashes out, but he soon realizes he was wrong about Lila. He wants to protect her and begins to care for her romantically.

As Lila and Jack begin talking to people to find out what happened on the night of the accident, they begin to realize that someone is watching and does not want a truth to be revealed.

I enjoyed this thriller from page one! Ms. Beevis’ plot has well placed red herrings, increases in intensity and surprised me in the end. The story is easy to read with very likable and believable main characters and a secondary cast of characters that are not just placeholders, but well fleshed out realistically flawed people. I am very grateful I tried this new-to-me author and I will be watching for more books by her even as I go back and check out her previous titles.

I highly recommend this thriller and author!

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Author Biography:

Keri Beevis wrote her first novel at age twenty, but it was a further twenty years before she was published after entering the Rethink Press New Novels Competition 2012. Her entry, Dead Letter Day, was a winner, earning her a publishing contract, and the book proved to be a minor hit, leading to a sequel, Dead Write. However it was Keri’s third novel, standalone mystery thriller The Darkness Beneaththat gained her the most success, along with many new fans, both in the UK and the USA.

Born in the village of Old Catton, less than a mile from where Anna Sewell was living when she wrote Black Beauty, Keri had a passion for reading and writing from a young age, though her tastes veered more to the macabre. 

Today she still lives in Norwich, along with her two naughty kitties, Ellie and Lola, and a plentiful supply of red wine (her writing fuel), where she writes a comedic lifestyle column for a local magazine. She loves Hitchcock movies, exploring creepy places, and gets extremely competitive in local pub quizzes. She is also a self-confessed klutz.

 Keri’s previous books have all been US based and she is looking forward to the release of her first UK based novel, which is set in her beautiful home county of Norfolk.

Blog Blitz/Feature Post and Book Review: The Editor by Simon Hall

Hi, everyone!

Today is my turn on the Blog Blitz for THE EDITOR by Simon Hall.

Below you will find a book blurb, my book review and the author’s biography. This book is not what I was expecting. I would not classify it as a classic mystery, but a fiction story with a mystery subplot. You will have to judge for yourself. Enjoy!

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Book Blurb

A mysterious advert in a newspaper promising to restore hope to the hopeless brings together four strangers.

None realising they will end up investigating a twisted and troubling crime that threatens their very futures.

Mitch, a former Crime Scene Investigator, Olivia, a brilliant PhD student, and Florence, a middle-aged solicitor, find themselves working with an enigmatic newspaper editor who refers to himself only as Ed.

But when Maddie, a teenage girl, disappears in sinister circumstances, the team are drawn into the hunt for her. And when a neighbour’s body is discovered in a pool of blood, they realise they must use their unique skills in a race against time.

But can they solve the mystery before it’s too late? And before Ed’s shadowy past overcomes them all?

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My Book Review

RATING: 4 out of 5 Stars

THE EDITOR by Simon Hall is not the book I was expecting, but that is not necessarily a bad thing at times. I was expecting a straight mystery due to the book blurb and the marketing, but for me it was more of a general fiction story with a mystery sub-plot.

An ad is posted in the newspaper promising to restore hope to the hopeless by Ed. Ed is a mysterious figure who chooses three people from the applicants to assist him in starting a new newswire to get them out among people and reconnect them with humanity and hope.

Mitch is a former crime scene investigator who has seen too much. Olivia is a brilliant computer and mathematician PhD student who hates humanity. Florence is a lawyer who feels that no matter who or what she tries to help, it ends in disaster. Ed is the leader, but he is also is looking for an unnamed answer.

As they search for news stories, the four become involved with a family in crisis. When teenager, Maddie disappears after her mother is sent to the hospital after a domestic abuse incident, the four work together to solve her disappearance. They all use their unique skills in a race against time and fight to maintain their hope.

The four main characters are the focus of this book more than the mystery which is easily figured out. Even the surprise twist at the end is focused on the main characters and not the mystery itself. I really enjoyed the differences between the four and how they came together. The twist at the end surprised me and cleared up questions about Ed.

This book is one of those books that everyone will have different views on and leave the ratings all over the place, but I enjoyed it. I recommend it for a different type of read with the emphasis on the four main characters and not the mystery sub-plot.

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Biography

Simon Hall is an author, journalist, communications consultant, and business coach.

He was a broadcaster for twenty five years, mostly as a BBC Television, Radio and Online News Correspondent, covering some of the biggest stories Britain has seen.

He now lectures, and coaches companies at the Judge Business School, part of the University of Cambridge, working on presentation skills, branding, pitching, websites, and media profile, both conventional and social.

Simon has had seven books in his tvdetective series published. They focus on a television reporter who covers crimes and gets so involved in the cases he helps the police to solve them.

He has also contributed articles and short stories to a range of newspapers and magazines, written plays, and even a pantomime.

Alongside his novels and stories, Simon is a tutor in media skills and creative writing, teaching at popular Writers’ Summer Schools such as Swanwick and Winchester, for the National Association of Writers’ Groups, at universities including Cambridge and Exeter, on cruise ships and overseas.

Simon has also become sought after as a speaker, appearing at a variety of prestigious literary festivals. His talks combine an insight into his writing work, along with some extraordinary anecdotes from the life of a television reporter, including the now notorious story of What to do when you really need a dead otter.

He began a broadcasting career as a DJ on the radio and in nightclubs, then moved into radio and TV news. He worked in Europe, London, Ireland, and the south west of England, before settling in Cambridge.

Simon is married to Jess, Director of Libraries at the University of Cambridge, and has an adopted daughter, Niamh. She’s an army officer, which makes her father both very proud and very nervous.

Simon also lectures on careers in the media at Cambridge University, and in schools and colleges. Amongst his proudest achievements, he includes the number of young people he has helped into higher education and jobs in broadcasting, and aspiring writers into publication.

As for his likes, Simon lists beer – he judges at real ale festivals – running, cycling, solving cryptic crosswords, composing curious Tweets (find him @SimonHallNews) and studying pop lyrics.

For more on Simon, see his website – www.thetvdetective.com

Release Blitz/Feature Post and Book Review: About Face by D.E. Haggerty

Title: About Face (Love in the Suburbs #1)

Author: D.E. Haggerty

Genre:Romantic Comedy, Contemporary Romance

Release Date: August 29, 2019

Cover Designer: Jeroen E. Spaan – Geared Training

Hosted by:Buoni Amici Press, LLC.

Hi, everyone!

Today I am happy to be a part of the Release Blitz for D.E. Haggerty’s new romantic comedy/contemporary romance ABOUT FACE (Love in the Suburbs Book 1). I love all the characters in this book and especially Grandma who is an absolute hoot!

Below you will find a book blurb, my book review, the author’s bio and social media links and a Rafflecopter giveaway. This romance is definitely one to add to your TBR list. You will be laughing long after you are done reading. As always, good luck on the Rafflecopter giveaway!

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Blurb

My grandma is trying to hook me up. 

To be painfully specific, my seventy-five-year-old grandmother thinks a little hanky-panky would cheer me up. Direct quote. Since I’m currently living with her, I can’t escape the endless line of grandchildren of friends who keep ‘dropping by’ for dinner. Literally, I can’t escape. I can barely manage the trek to the dining room at this point. 

While Grandma’s determined to find me a husband, I’m determined to learn how to walk again so I can walk away from her matchmaking skills. Spoiler alert: She has no matchmaking skills. 

But then I get a brilliant idea. I can fake date my physical therapist. Only he wants a real date. Gulp. A real date with me? Is he for real? I’m no longer the stylish girl with the glamorous job. Now, I’m a woman with a shattered leg and a scarred face. 

If I’m going to learn to live with my new reality and give love a chance, my attitude needs to do an about face. Easier said than done.

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My Book Review

RATING: 5 out of 5 Stars

ABOUT FACE (Love in the Suburbs Book 1) by D.E. Haggertyis a new romantic comedy/contemporary romance by a new to me author that is also the start of a new series. I love all the characters in this book and cannot wait for more!

Francis “Frankie” McMillan is living it up in the big city. At 35, she is the top event planner in the firm she works for. Life is long hours of work, checking out hip venues while dancing and drinking with her three girlfriends.  She is beautiful with designer clothes, stiletto heels and a third floor walk-up.

And then…. she wakes up in the hospital after a horrible car accident with a leg that was barely saved and a two inch scar on her cheek. Upon release, she moves in with her Grandpa and Grandma in the suburbs. Now, she is facing physical therapy and going out in public. She does not want to do either, but she has to learn to walk again to get her job back. Facing the world with her scars has her terrified, but she can hide the scars on her leg with clothes and she always wears a bandage on her face.

She is surprised when her physical therapist is a burly Viking with a beard named Brodie. She also cannot believe that she is very interested in him, but what man wants to be with someone as ugly and scarred as she is now? With laugh-out-loud help from her Grandma, her new best-friend Shelby and Brodie, Frankie learns things about her old life and self she is not very happy with and maybe with the help of some real friends, she just may live happily-ever-after after all.

This is a laugh-out-loud entertaining romance that also has some very poignant scenes. Frankie is on a very sharp learning curve, not just physically but also emotionally. Brodie has his job cut out for him trying to convince this “city girl” that she is still beautiful inside and out. The sex scenes are appropriate to the story and realistic. Shelby, who Frankie meets in physical therapy is a true friend and I love her snark. Almost every time I laughed-out-loud while reading this book is when Grandma makes an appearance. She is “THE BEST”!

I highly recommend this romantic comedy/contemporary romance! You will laugh-out-loud and be cheering Frankie on throughout. I am anxiously awaiting the next book in this series.

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About D.E. Haggarty:

I grew up reading everything I could get my grubby hands on, from my mom’s Harlequin romances to Nancy Drew, to Little Women. When I wasn’t flipping pages in a library book, I was penning horrendous poems, writing songs no one should ever sing, or drafting stories which have thankfully been destroyed. College and a stint in the U.S. Army came along, robbing me of free time to write and read, although on the odd occasion I did manage to sneak a book into my rucksack between rolled up socks, MRIs, t-shirts, and cold weather gear. After surviving the army experience, I went back to school and got my law degree. I jumped ship and joined the hubby in the Netherlands before the graduation ceremony could even begin.

A few years into my legal career, I was exhausted, fed up, and just plain done. I quit my job and sat down to write a manuscript, which I promptly hid in the attic after returning to the law. But being a lawyer really wasn’t my thing, so I quit (again!) and went off to Germany to start a B&B. Turns out being a B&B owner wasn’t my thing either. I polished off that manuscript languishing in the attic before following the husband to Istanbul where I decided to give the whole writer-thing a go. But ten years was too many to stay away from my adopted home. I packed up again and moved to The Hague where I’m currently working on my next book. I hope I’ll always be working on my next book.

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