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Review: The Tapestry (Joanna Stafford #3) by Nancy Bilyeau

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Joanna Stafford is still struggling to adjust to life in the sleepy town of Dartford.

Once a novice nun, but now….not, thanks to King Henry VIII, Joanna is content weaving her tapestries at her home.

The sudden disappearance of her would be husband, Edmund Scovill, has left Joanna upset and confused (not to mention the reader!) but she is resolved to continue her work on her tapestries far from the English court.

Well, her weaving has caught the attention of the King. When a royal summons from Whitehall comes, demanding Joanna’s presence at court, she can hardly refuse the royal order.

When she arrives at court, she is literally attacked instantly by an unknown assailant. It becomes clear that someone wants her dead and the attacked was a carefully orchestrated by a trained assassin.

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Review: Mist of Midnight: A Novel (Daughters of Hampshire #1) by Sandra Byrd

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Rebecca Ravenshaw has survived an unthinkable tragedy in India.

During the uprising against the English, both of her parents are killed and her brother died from illness.

She is all alone in the world and wants to return to England where her father’s estate is.

When she arrived in England after a long journey, she finds that someone else has already come forward claiming to be her.

No one knows her, she hasn’t been in England since she was a child. She has no other living relations, no friends in England…..nothing to prove she is who she says she is. Rebecca soon discovers that the women claiming to be her has also died under mysterious circumstances. Continue reading “Review: Mist of Midnight: A Novel (Daughters of Hampshire #1) by Sandra Byrd” →

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Announcement: Winner UNBECOMING by Rebecca Scherm

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And the winner of the giveaway for UNBECOMING by Rebecca Scherm is…..

Ashley at citygirlscapes (follows on Twitter)

The winner will be notified via email.

Thank you to everyone who entered and a huge thank you to the publisher for making this giveaway possible!

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Giveaway: UNBECOMING by Rebecca Scherm

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This week’s bitchin’ giveaway is for UNBECOMING by Rebecca Scherm! UNBECOMING is her debut thriller novel of suspense, mystery.

UNBECOMING is an intricately plotted and psychologically nuanced heist novel that turns on suspense and slippery identity. With echoes of Alfred Hitchcock and Patricia Highsmith, Rebecca Scherm’s mesmerizing debut is sure to entrance fans of Gillian Flynn, Marisha Pessl, and Donna Tartt.

Thanks to the Publisher, I am ecstatic to be able to offer a copy of UNBECOMING for your enjoyment! Giveaway is for one copy.

Giveaway runs 1/22/15 to 1/29/15

Winners will be announced 1/30/15.

(how to enter)

On this blog you must leave a comment to be entered in the giveaway.  Your comment MUST include your email so I can contact you….if you do not enter an email in the comments your entry will be void. Winners will be notified by email the day after the giveaway closes and have five days to respond, it not another winner will be chosen. 

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Review: Unbecoming by Rebecca Scherm

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This book made me want to read more thrillers about international art fraud! It also inspired me to finally pick up The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.

This debut novel by Rebecca Scherm is recommended for fans of The Goldfinch which I haven’t read but thought sounded good.

Since Unbecoming is shorter, I thought this one sounded like a good place to start.

We meet Julie (AKA Grace) who is living a double life in France. While she was on her summer study abroad program in Prague, she receives word that her long time boyfriend/husband, Riley, and his best friend (and her lover), Alls, who have been arrested for a high profile heist at an estate back in Tennessee.

Well three years later Grace is still in Europe, when she learns they will both be paroled. She is hiding from both of them for a number of reasons. One of which is the stolen art canvas she left the states with three years previously.

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