SAINT’S GATE on sale in August

Saint’s Gate is on sale in eBook through August for just $1.99. It’s the first book in my Sharpe and Donovan series. Set on the southern Maine coast with a touch of Boston and Ireland, it was a fun, challenging book to write.

I wrote a chunk of Saint’s Gate in a hideaway cottage on the southwest Irish coast. Finian Bracken, a recurring character in the series, came to life on one of my long walks during that memorable three-week writing retreat.

You can read about creating the elusive Father Bracken here.

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IMPOSTOR’S LURE is now in paperback!

Have you been waiting for the paperback release of Impostor’s Lure? Today’s the day! Awarded Just Reviews Book of the Year, it’s a fast-paced story featuring FBI agents Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan. Also playing a role: their small Boston-based team, their families in Maine and Ireland and their friends, including an English art thief and MI5 asset and an Irish priest (reader favorites!). The story takes place in Boston, Maine, Ireland and England, great for any of us with midsummer wanderlust.

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Summer in Boston

Does summer in the city appeal to you? I spent my first summer in Boston after my junior year in college and had a great time. Long walks in the evening, 4th of July fireworks, ice cream shops, harbor dinner cruises (well, one), Beacon Hill window boxes and countless other bonuses of a city summer. We love our hilltop house in Vermont and our excursions to Ireland and Maine, but our July, August and September visits to Boston are special, and not just because our grandchildren live there! Not something I thought much about that first summer in the city…

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