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Only a week ago I was on my way to Rutland, Vermont, for a wonderful signing and talk for Impostor’s Lure at Phoenix Books, a fabulous independent bookstore. I love this store! Rutland is a small city about an hour west of me, with a great downtown. I don’t get there often enough.
The night before, I was in North Reading, Massachusetts, at a historic library for a fun chat another “full house” of readers. As in Billerica on the 21st, everyone in North Reading and Rutland was so welcoming, gracious and generous. And they all asked great questions! 
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Made it to Boston yesterday despite a flat tire. Well, not on the highway. In the driveway as I was getting myself together to leave. Fortunately Joe tackled it. It wasn’t straightforward because the wheel was bent (hence the flat tire), but it got done. Nice drive south on a beautiful day. I took myself to lunch to celebrate Impostor’s Lure hitting stores. Maybe not glamorous but quite pleasant! I found a nice throw at West Elm, too. Then a pleasant walk along the Charles River to take a moment to be grateful for this day. (Photo above is from my walk.)
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I’ve been writing, running, contemplating making pesto with our bumper crop of basil…and getting ready for Impostor’s Lure to hit stores on Tuesday, August 21. That’s just one week from today! I’m excited for readers to get a chance to read this latest suspense novel featuring FBI agent Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan. This was a tough book to write but also a rewarding one.
Can’t wait to head out on the road to chat with readers at three events next week. Join us if you’re in the area! Click on the links for details:
Talk and Book Signing
7 PM
Billerica P… Read More
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I’m going to keep this short. (Deadlines, anyone?! Oh, and it’s my birthday today…) We’re doing quite the contest this month! Limited-edition Bracken Distillers whiskey glasses designed by my son, an LL Bean gift card, bookmarks and books galore. Click here for all the details and enter today!
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Irish priest and whiskey man Finian Bracken, a reader favorite, appears in every book in my Sharpe & Donovan series. He entered the priesthood after he lost his wife and two young daughters in a sailing accident. He ends up in a struggling fishing village on the southern Maine coast, befriending FBI agents Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan.
Finian came together for me as a character one rainy afternoon when I was tucked in an Irish hideaway for a writing retreat. I was writing Saint’s Gate, the first book in the series.
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Among the recurring characters in my Sharpe & Donovan suspense series is Oliver York, an English mythologist, martial arts expert, “gentleman” farmer and serial art thief. By the start of Thief’s Mark, now out in paperback, he’s working with MI5. As a boy, he witnessed his parents’ murder and then was whisked off to Scotland by their killers. He escaped, but so did they. Now he’s about to find out the truth about that awful night. 
Scotland is one of the most beautiful places Joe and I have visited, and we are looking forward to a return trip. It̵… Read More
