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10/25/2010

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Featured on Barnes and Noble mystery blog--come and visit!


http://bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Mystery/Please-Welcome-Author-CAROLA-DUNN/m-p/69381 8/highlight/true#M29594
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Bouchercon

10/22/2010

 
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At Bouchercon with authors Michelle Gagnon and Deborah Crombie.

I had a good time at the conference--didn't make it to many panels as there were too many interesting people to talk to in the hospitality suite! Author Michael Dymmoch kindly let me dump my jacket and various heavy bags in her room at the hotel, as I was staying with my Regency e-editor on top of a steep San Francisco hill. I got there and back via street-car (not cable car) which stopped at the bottom of the hill. My host and hostess kindly drove me to and picked me up from the stop--otherwise I'd have spent hours climbing that slope.

When I discovered, at the Minotaur party, that I hadn't brought their phone no. with me, my editor found it for me on his i-phone. I guess those gadgets have their uses.

One panel I did attend, my own, on writers block. Not the most thrilling subject in the world but we had a good audience and somehow managed to keep them amused. I was delighted to find out one of my fellow-panellists also turns to Spider Solitaire when at a loss for the next sentence!


 

Tea with Eleanor

10/20/2010

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Thanks to my cousin Jean!
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Kirkus review of Anthem for Doomed Youth

10/19/2010

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  ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH
Author: Dunn, Carola

Review Date: November 1, 2010
Publisher:Minotaur Books
Publication Date: April 5, 2011
ISBN ( Hardcover ): 978-0-312-38776-1

The Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher can’t escape involvement in murder no matter how good her intentions.

DCI Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard is called in when three bodies are found buried in the heart of Epping Forest in the spring of 1926. The local police officer, DI Gant, is so annoyed that he walks off, leaving Alec and his crew with no help. The first order of business is to identify the three men and find a connection between them. It is Alec’s wife Daisy who comes up with the idea that they may have had a World War I service connection. Colonel Pelham, a retired soldier, was a brute and a bully whose wife is delighted with his demise; the other two victims were young enough to have served under his command.
While Alec continues to search for clues, Daisy and her friends Melanie and Sakari attend a sports day at their daughters’ school. There they encounter another bully—Harriman, the boys’ games teacher—along with several teachers who suffered greatly during the war. When Melanie’s daughter finds Harriman’s dead body in a maze they’re visiting, Daisy does her best to protect the girls from the inquiry, which is being run by the choleric and incompetent DI Gant. 

The latest edition to Daisy’s long string of investigations (Sheer Folly, 2009, etc.) is amusing and sprightly, and as evocative of the period as ever.



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Hatchard's again!

10/07/2010

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Once again Daisy is featured at Hatchard's 300 year old book shop in Piccadilly. Six titles (UK editions) on the second shelf down of the Featured Author shelves.


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