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Special Feature: First Impressions Book Club Kit

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In a few short weeks 11/21/14, I will be posting my review of FIRST IMPRESSIONS by Charlie Lovett. If you are a fan of Jane Austen….which let’s face it, that’s pretty much everyone, then you will probably enjoy this book.

I haven’t even read it yet and I already love it! I had the pleasure of reviewing one of Lovett’s other books, THE BOOKMAN’S TALE, earlier this year and loved both the story and his writing style! So when this came up to review, I jumped on it!

In eager anticipation of reading this novel, I am thrilled to share this wonderful book club kit with you!

This book club kit has it all…..recipes, a Q & A with the author, as well as a Jane Austen reading list. This is a fantastic way to engage the upcoming novel! Please share it with your book clubs and friends! And be sure to watc hfor my review in a few short weeks!

Here is the direct link for the book club kit: http://images.penguingroup.com/Viking/FirstImpressions_BCK.pdf 

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Review: The Hawley Book of the Dead by Chrysler Szarlan

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Reve (Revelation) Dyer’s life changes in the blink of an eye. She works as an assistant to her magician husband, Jeremy, and together they have three lovely daughters.

Their magic show in Las Vegas draws crowds every night, but in an instant everything changes.

While performing a magic trick, Defying the Bullets, she is supposed to ‘shoot’ her husband and he in turn coughs up the bullet.

When blood sprays and Jeremy falls dead to the ground, the audience and Reve are completely stunned.

It becomes clear that someone altered her gun with a real bullet but the question was why? Reve and her daughters suddenly start receiving envelopes of pictures from a ‘stalker’. Reve then receives a cryptic letter from her Nan begging her to come home less the Fetch find them.

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Review: Night of a Thousand Stars by Deanna Raybourn

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Deanna Raybourn has been an author long on my radar. I hear wonderful things about her Lady Jane series from a number of people.

So when the opportunity to review her latest standalone book, I was eager to try her books out!

Poppy Hammond, is all set to marry into an aristocratic family but she has other plans which include making a run for it.

She is assisted by the dashing curate Sebastian Cantrip who helps her escape to her family’s house where she can have some time to think and sort out her life.

Before she can thank Sebastian for his assistance, he disappears and she sets her mind to finding him. She soon realizes Sebastian has lied to her about who he is. She discovers that he has fled to Damascus. What in the world took him there?! She is determined to figure out what exactly is going on here.

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Review: Murder on the Île Sordou (Verlaque and Bonnet #4) by M.L. Longworth

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Judge Verlaque and his girlfriend, law professor Dr Marine Bonnet are taking a much needed vacation on a secluded island off the coast of France, Sordou.

The island was once a haven for the rich and famous in the 1960’s but was long forgotten but the elite in favor of other island destinations in the south of France.

However the Le Bon family, Cat-Cat and Max, just bought the hotel and hope to restore it to its former glory.

With the opening weekend on their life’s savings on the line, they need everything to go perfect….the last thing they need is a murder.

This novel totally reminded me of Clue, set in France. It was full of a number of eccentric characters each seemingly with no motive.

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Special Feature: M.L. Longworth featured on NPR’s Crime in the City

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When the seasons start to change from summer to fall….I find myself instinctively drawn to reading a good murder mystery.

For me, fall means curling up by the fire with a pumpkin spice latte and reading a good who-dunnit!

I was recently approached by Penguin to review M.L. Longworth’s latest novel Murder on the Île Sordou (Verlaque and Bonnet #4) and let me just say that this book is satisfying my urge to read a good mystery!

I should finish it up tonight, I started reading it this weekend and haven’t put it down since!

My review will be up later this month but in the mean time…..M.L. Longworth was recently featured on NPR’s Crime in the City series (“Mystery Writer Weaves Intricate Puzzles in Sleepy French Town”), in a wonderful introduction to the author, the Verlaque & Bonnet series, and Aix-en-Provence.

This is a wonderful article that I highly encourage you to read!

I can’t wait to read the other books in the series as I am starting in the middle, however you don’t need to read the other books to appreciate this wonderful mystery series set throughout French countryside!

About the Author

M. L . Longworth has written for The Washington Post, The Times (London), The Independent, and Bon Appétit magazine. She divides her time between Aix-en-Provence, where she writes, and Paris, where she teaches writing at New York University’s Paris campus.

For more information on M.L. Longworth, please visit her blog and web page!