16 April 2015

The Strange Death of Fiona Griffiths By Harry Bingham



British author, Harry Bingham, blew critics and readers away with his crime debut, Talking to the Dead. His second novel, Love Story, with Murders, established DC Fiona Griffiths as the most compelling heroine in crime fiction. With this, the third novel in the series, comes Fiona's darkest, strangest and most challenging assignment yet . . .
It started out as nothing much. A minor payroll fraud at a furniture store in South Wales. No homicide involved, no corpses. Detective Constable Fiona Griffiths fights to get free of the case, but loses. She's tasked with the investigation.
She begins her enquiries, only to discover the corpse of a woman who's starved to death. Looks further, and soon realizes that within the first, smaller crime, a vaster one looms: the most audacious theft in history.
Fiona’s bosses need a copper willing to go undercover, and they ask Fiona to play the role of a timid payroll clerk so that she can penetrate the criminal gang from within.
Fiona will be alone, she’ll be lethally vulnerable – and her fragile grip on ‘Planet Normal’ will be tested as never before ...
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Harry is currently writing a crime series, featuring a young Welsh detective, Fiona Griffiths. The series has sold to publishers in the UK (Orion), the US (Random House), as well as France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlandsand elsewhere. The first novel was televised by Bonafide and broadcast onSky Living. The novels are notable mostly for the strong voice and strange character of their protagonist. The first three titles in the series are Talking to the Dead, Love Story with Murders, and The Strange Death of Fiona Griffiths.

The books have had nice reviews in the Bookseller, Publishers Weekly,Kirkus, New York Times, New York Daily News, Boston Globe, Seattle Times,Washington Post, Daily Mail, Telegraph, Times, Sunday Times, Western Mail (all behind paywall) Shelf Awareness, crimefictionlover, and many more fine publications.

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February 2
Book featured at 3 Partners in Shopping
February 3
Guest blogging at What is That Book
February 4
Book reviewed at Rainy Day Reviews
February 5
Interviewed at A Little Bit of R & R
February 6
Guest blogging at I Heart Reading
February 9
Book reviewed at The Phantom Paragrapher
February 11
Book featured at The Zen Reader
February 12
Interviewed at Review From Here
February 13
Guest blogging at From Paperback to Leatherbound
February 16
Book Featured at I Heart Reading
February 17
Interviewed at Literal Exposure
February 19
Book featured at Confessions of a Reader
February 20
Book featured at Tales of a Book Addict
February 24
Guest blogging at A Taste of My Mind
February 26
Interviewed at Niume
March 2 
Book featured at Voodoo Princess
Guest blogging at Romancing the Dark Side
March 4
Book featured at The Literary Nook
March 6 
Book reviewed at Harlie's Books
March 9
Guest blogging at Romancing the Darkside
March 11
Interviewed at Blirt
March 12
Book featured at Inkslinger's Opus
March 13
Interviewed at Pimp That Character
March 16
Book reviewed at Queen of All She Reads
March 17
Interviewed at Pump Up Your Book
March 18
Guest blogging at She Writes
March 19
Interviewed at I'm Shelf-ish
March 23
Guest blogging at The Writer's Life
March 25 
Interviewed at As the Page Turns
March 27
Guest blogging at Fiction to Fruition
April 2
Book featured at CBY Book Club
April 6
Book review and Author interviewed at The Gal in the Blue Mask
April 7
Book featured at Lover of Literature
April 8
April 9
Guest blogging at Literarily Speaking
April 13
Book featured at Blogher
April 14
Interviewed at Examiner
April 15
Guest blogging at Bent Over Bookwords
April 16
Book reviewed at Celticlady's Reviews
April 17
Book featured at The Revolving Bookshelf
April 21
Book featured at The Dark Phantom
April 22
Interviewed at Book Marketing Buzz
April 23
Book reviewed at Review From Here
April 24
Book featured at All Inclusive Retort
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15 April 2015

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Romantic Road by Blair McDowell Spotlight, Excerpt and Giveaway!

Romantic Road

Author: Blair McDowell
Title: Romantic Road
Release Date: January 28th, 2015
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Links: Amazon | Barnes&Noble | AllRomance

When Lacy Telchev buries her husband she finds herself in treacherous waters. Igor, much older than Lacy, had secrets. Suddenly Lacy is being chased across Europe by men who believe she can lead them to those secrets. Evading her pursuers with the aid of a chance acquaintance, the handsome and mysterious Max Petersen, Lacy travels across Germany, Austria and Hungary, to a shattering discovery in Budapest.

Along the way, she meets three women from Igor’s past. As Igor’s story unfolds through them, Lacy is less and less certain who her husband really was. Who can Lacy trust? Will she survive to find out?

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“Where is it? Just tell us where it is and you won’t get hurt.” The taller man loomed over her, his face expressionless, a mask.

“Where is what? What are you talking about? Who are you?” Lacy began to be annoyed. That was better than being scared. “Can I see your badges again?”

The second man stared hard at her though dead-looking flat grey eyes. “Mrs. Telchev,” he said, his voice low and menacing, “we mean you no harm. But you must tell us where he hid his manuscript.”

They knew her name? Icy tentacles of fear slipping down Lacy’s back. She shook her head. “I have no idea what you’re talking about.”

At that moment the red and white lights of a state police vehicle rounded the curve coming toward them. Seeing the blocked road it stopped. Two uniformed officers got out and approached the two parked cars.

“You’re blocking the road. What’s the trouble here?”

The taller man spoke.  “No trouble, Officer. Sorry about the way we’re parked. I’ll move the car immediately. The lady was pulled over here and we just stopped to see if she needed help.”

He flipped open his wallet and showed the officers the same ID he’d shown Lacy.

It seemed to mean something to the policemen.

Lacy opened her mouth to say something and then thought better of it. What could she tell the police? These men wanted a manuscript from her but she didn’t know where it was? Or what it was about? Or even if it existed. That it involved her dead husband? No. She wouldn’t say anything. Not until she knew more.

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Blair McDowell wrote her first short story when she was eleven and has never ceased writing since, although only recently has she been able to return to her first love, writing fiction.  During her early years, she taught in universities in the United States, Canada and Australia, and wrote several highly successful books in her field.

Her research has taken her to many interesting places.  She has lived in Europe, Australia, the United States and the Caribbean and Canada, and spent considerable time in still other places, Iceland, the Far East, and the Torres Strait Islands off the coast of New Guinea. Now she travels for pleasure. Portugal, Greece and Italy are favorite haunts.

Her books are set in places she knows and loves and are peopled with characters drawn from her experiences of those places.   The Memory of Roses takes readers to the Greek Island of Corfu, where a young woman finds her future while searching for her father's past.  In Delighting in Your Company, the reader is transported to a small island in the Caribbean, with a heroine who finds herself in the unenviable position of falling in love with a ghost.  The setting for Sonata is the city of Vancouver, with its vibrant multicultural population and its rich musical life, and the heroine is a musician who finds herself in unexpected danger.

In her most recent release, Romantic Road, Lacy Telchev, is pursued along Germany’s famous Romantische Strausse as she follows clues left by her late husband in order to solve a mystery that she doesn’t understand, while being chased by dangerous and cunning adversaries.

She hopes her readers will enjoy reading these books as much as she enjoyed writing them.

Blair is a member of the Romance Writers of America, Romance Writers of America (Greater Vancouver Chapter),  the Romance Writers of America (Women's Fiction), and The Writers’ Union of Canada.

AUTHOR LINKS: WWebsite | Blog | Goodreads | Facebook | Twitter | Google+

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Helen of Sparta by Amalia Carosella Book Tour!

Please join author Amalia Carosella as she tours the blogosphere with HF Virtual Book Tours for Helen of Sparta, from April 1-22. 

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Publication Date: April 1, 2015
Lake Union Publishing
Formats: eBook, Paperback
ISBN-10: 1477821384
 Genre: Historical Fiction

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Long before she ran away with Paris to Troy, Helen of Sparta was haunted by nightmares of a burning city under siege. These dreams foretold impending war—a war that only Helen has the power to avert. To do so, she must defy her family and betray her betrothed by fleeing the palace in the dead of night. In need of protection, she finds shelter and comfort in the arms of Theseus, son of Poseidon. With Theseus at her side, she believes she can escape her destiny. But at every turn, new dangers—violence, betrayal, extortion, threat of war—thwart Helen’s plans and bar her path. Still, she refuses to bend to the will of the gods. A new take on an ancient myth, Helen of Sparta is the story of one woman determined to decide her own fate.

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Amalia Carosella graduated from the University of North Dakota with a bachelors degree in Classical Studies and English. An avid reader and former bookseller, she writes about old heroes and older gods. She lives with her husband in upstate New York and dreams of the day she will own goats (and maybe even a horse, too). For more information, visit her blog at www.amaliacarosella.com. She also writes fantasy and paranormal romance as Amalia Dillin. You can also connect with Amalia on Facebook, Goodreads, and Twitter here and here.

Helen of Sparta Blog Tour Schedule

Wednesday, April 1 Review at Unshelfish Review at Let Them Read Books Thursday, April 2 Review at Flashlight Commentary Friday, April 3 Interview at Flashlight Commentary Saturday, April 4 Review at History From a Woman's Perspective Monday, April 6 Review at Curling Up By the Fire Spotlight at A Literary Vacation Tuesday, April 7 Spotlight at leeanna.com Wednesday, April 8 Review at Historical Reads and Views Thursday, April 9 Review at Oh, For the Hook of a Book! Friday, April 10 Review at With Her Nose Stuck in a Book Monday, April 13 Interview at Book Babe Spotlight at Historical Fiction Obsession Tuesday, April 14 Review at Forever Ashley Wednesday, April 15 Review at Just One More Chapter Spotlight at CelticLady's Reviews Thursday, April 16 Review at 100 Pages a Day Friday, April 17 Review at Impressions in Ink Saturday, April 18 Spotlight at Passages to the Past Monday, April 20 Review at Book Lovers Paradise Interview at The Maiden's Court Tuesday, April 21 Review at Broken Teepee Wednesday, April 22 Review at Ageless Pages Reviews

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