Category: Anthem For Doomed Youth

GONE WEST signing schedule

01/01/2012

NW Signings:

Seattle Mystery Feb 11th noon ;

Murder by the Book, Portland, Feb 12th, 2pm·

Calif signings:

Mysteries to Die For, Thousand Oaks, March 3, 1pm

Mysterious Galaxy, San Diego, March 6, 7pm

Mystery Ink, Huntingdon Beach, March 11, noon (to be confirmed)

Book'Em Mysteries, S. Pasadena, March 11, 3 pm

And Left Coast Crime, Sacramento :-)

Anthem for Doomed Youth in PAPERBACK will also be out.

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Read an excerpt...

08/29/2011

You can read an excerpt at:

http://historicalfictionexcerpts.blogspot.com/2011/08/anthem-for-doomed-youth.html

Full up!

07/14/2011

Requiem for a Mezzo, the third Daisy Dalrymple mystery, is now out in large print hardcover in the UK.

As a result, my Daisy bookcase is overflowing:

Daisy on right, Regencies on left

and Anthem for Doomed Youth--US hardcover, UK paperback, and large print editions--have had to move to the Cornish mystery bookcase.

Anthem in large print

06/23/2011

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Anthem for Doomed Youth is out in large print now. Three editions, three different covers--Which do you prefer?

This is the US large print edition.

US hardcover

UK edition

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Saffron Walden is a small town in Essex, the scene of Daisy's part in Anthem for Doomed Youth. I thought those of you who have read the book might like to see some pics of the town, the school, and Bridge End Garden.

Friends School, Saffron Walden

1924--the entire student body & staff

Houses opposite the church

typical plasterwork--pargetting

Window in old house

Entrance to Bridge End Garden

"Dutch" garden

Gargoyle guarding entrance to maze

The Maze

My friend Carole and I went into the maze because I wanted to see what was in the centre. We couldn't find it. Luckily we did find our way out! I accosted a gardener and asked him to describe what was there--He led us in, and out again :-)

On the lookout at the centre of the maze

Oregon/Washington/UK Signings

04/19/2011

I'll be signing Anthem for Doomed Youth at:

Murder by the Book, Portland Oregon, Sat. April 23rd at 1 pm;
Seattle Mystery Bookstore, Sat. April 30th, noon;
Barnes & Noble, Silverdale, WA, May 1st, 1 pm.

And in England (!):

Hatchard's, London, May 30, 3 pm

Heffers, Cambridge, June 2nd, 3:30 (Tea and Mystery)

Book signings April-May

03/16/2011

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Anthem for Doomed Youth is now out in hardcover, Kindle and Nook. Read reviews and the poem from which the title came on the DAISY DALRYMPLE MYSTERIES page. I will be signing and/or talking about it during the next couple of months at:

April 14 Ashland OR Public Library 7 pm

April 15 Klamath Falls OR Public Library noon

April 16 Medford OR Public Library 1 pm

April 23 Portland OR Murder by the Book 1 pm

April 30 Seattle WA Seattle Mystery Bookstore 12 pm

May 1 Silverdale WA Barnes & Noble 2 pm

May 13 CrimeFest Bristol UK panel Arsenic and Old Lace 2 pm
May 14 CrimeFest Bristol UK panel An Affair to Remember 10 am
May 30 London UK Hatchard's Bookshop 3 pm

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Booklist review: Anthem for Doomed Youth

03/04/2011

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DCI Alec Fletcher receives a high-profile case with orders to solve it quickly and keep his wife, Daisy Dalrymple, away from the investigation. Since Daisy will be heading off to visit their daughter at her boarding school, this should not be a problem. Unfortuately, Daisy’s daughter, Belinda, and her friends encounter a body in the maze at the public garden, leaving Daisy and her friend Sakari Prasad to speculate about the murder and ponder whether it could be related to Alec’s case, which centers on the discovery of three bodies in Epping Forest. The victims all served in the same company during WWI, and their deaths may be related to wartime events. Dunn’s striking portrait of Daisy continues to remind readers that there were strong women with careers in England during the 1920s—and women who successfully balanced work and parenthood. As always, Dunn combines an entertaining story with fascinating historical material.

— Barbara Bibel

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Reviews: Anthem for Doomed Youth

01/10/2011

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Now out in hardcover, Kindle and Nook

Kirkus: "amusing and sprightly"

Mysterious Women: "gripping and fascinating"

Publishers Weekly: Set in 1926, Dunn's enjoyable 19th Daisy Dalrymple mystery (after 2009's Sheer Folly) will please fans of traditional English whodunits. When the graves of three men turn up in Epping Forest, once a royal hunting preserve just outside London, Det. Chief Insp. Alec Fletcher, the lead investigator, is relieved that his wife, Daisy, along with her friends Melanie and Sakari, are away at their daughters' school for the weekend, so she won't be able to nose her way into the case. Later, Melanie's daughter discovers a dead teacher while lost in the medieval maze of Bridge End Garden. Leave it to clever Daisy to figure out that all the bodies are related to the Great War. The aristocratic but very modern Daisy makes a formidable amateur sleuth as she acts to stop more murders and get justice for the victims.

This is the poem that gave me the title:

ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH,
by Wilfred Owen

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries for them from prayers or bells;
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,--
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.

What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of good-byes.
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of silent minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.