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Happy New Year

12/31/2010

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Wishing you a peaceful, relaxed, and enjoyable New Year
and all the best for 2011
Carola and Trillian

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Bloody Tower research

12/29/2010

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A reader just commented on the research that went into writing The Bloody Tower. I thought I'd share with you what I told her.

UK edition

Researching the Tower was fun. I picked up a book about the history years ago, just in case I ever needed it. Then I found the email address of the librarian there (Royal Armouries Library--no longer at the Tower). Not only was she very helpful about answering my questions, when I went over she arranged a pass for me and had a whole box of books and papers waiting that she thought might be useful, including the Governor's Day Book for the week Daisy was there!

I took loads of photos, of course (though it was a bitterly cold day and I nearly froze in the process!), but when I got home, I discovered I had none of the place where the body is found. Unbelievably, a friend/reader in Canada just then told me he was going to the UK and asked if he could do any research for me. I said if he just happened to be going to the Tower... He did go, and took great pics of the spot--[Thanks, Gray!]

Daisy found the body at the foot of these steps.

[one of Graham's photos]

This is The Queen's House (King's, in Daisy's time), where Daisy spent the night. The arch at the bottom is the entrance to the foot of the stairs.

The entrance to the tunnel under the Bloody Tower itself.

US paperback

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If you're wondering...

12/29/2010

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If you're wondering where I am, the answer is at my computer, trying to get Gone West finished. I've already warned my editor it's going to be late. Luckily the weather has not been conducive to outdoor pursuits so the much-needed pruning is not interrupting ;-)

Here's a nice wintry picture, the UK edition of the first Daisy mystery.

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A spot of holiday cheer:

12/20/2010

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A spot of holiday cheer for your Kindle or Nook: two "happily ever after" novellas set in Regency England.

"The Match of the Season"--an eligible young lady about to be engaged to a very eligible heir to a dukedom meets his thoroughly ineligible brother...

"He Stoops to Conquer"--a most unusual actress catches the eye of the heir to the lord who's hired the theatre company to perform She Stoops to Conquer for his Christmas house-party.

http://www.RegencyReads.com

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Murderous Musings blog post

12/15/2010

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http://murderousmusings.blogspot.com/2010/12/crime-is-everywhere.html

Musings on how crime crept into my Regencies long before I started writing mysteries!

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Murderous Regency

12/08/2010

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Today Captain Ingram's Inheritance comes out in large print. Strictly speaking, it's not a mystery, but it has three attempted murders in it, so it's definitely crime fiction! It's the third of a trilogy, so here's a bit about them all.

The first is Miss Jacobson's Journey. It's a story about smuggling gold across enemy France to Lord Wellington's troops in the Peninsula, to pay the troops. The British government was in despair because the French sank so many of their ships carrying gold for the soldiers. The Rothschilds came to the rescue (true) and Miriam Jacobson got caught up in their schemes (fiction), escorted by two handsome young men who loathed each other.

Large Print edition

Lord Roworth's Reward: Felix Roworth, his father deeply in debt, works as a courier for Nathan Rothschild. After Napoleon's escape from Elba, Felix is in Brussels, awaiting the outcome of the coming battle between the allies and the French. Sharing his lodgings are Fanny and Frank Ingram. Frank, an artillery officer, is badly wounded at Quatre Bras. Felix is torn between his duty to his employer and his desire to help Fanny get Frank to safety in England.

Large print edition

Captain Ingram's Inheritance: Frank Ingram, seriously injured, is nursed by Lord Roworth's sister, Lady Constantia. He falls in love but, a poor soldier, he can't aspire to her hand, until he hears of an unexpected inheritance. But someone doesn't want Captain Ingram to take possession of his estate...

large print edition

ebook

e-book

e-book (the actual uniform of an artillery officer)

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Win a signed Christmas mystery!

12/04/2010

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Read a review of Mistletoe and Murder, Daisy's Christmas mystery at http://kingsriverlife.com/12/04/christmas-mystery-reviews/ for a chance to win a signed copy!