Archive for August 18th, 2009

Carmen Reid is the author of seven novels, three of which star Annie Valentine, and we have reviewed her latest Annie Valentine adventure How Not To Shop. To find out more about Carmen, see our Author of the Week post! Carmen kindly said she’d do an interview with us and here are her answers:

1. Tell us about your latest novel, How Not To Shop, in a sentence.

Personal shopper Annie Valentine leaves The Store to seek fame and fortune as a TV presenter, unfortunately this is makeover-on-a-shoestring TV: the budget is zip and they’re paying buttons, nevertheless, Annie is determined to succeed.

2. What, if anything, are you currently working on?

There will be an Annie Valentine part four next year and I’m just finishing off the third book in my ‘Secrets at St Jude’s’ boarding school series for teen readers.

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We posted the news about Shari Low moving from Avon back to Piatkus and we mentioned her next book would be called Temptation Street. It’s due for release on 6th May 2010 and the synopsis reads:

Have you ever taken a wrong turn into Temptation Street…?

Suze has a niggling feeling that her husband Karl’s marital sat-nav has taken a wrong turn and led him down the road to temptation. What’s a suspicious wife to do?

Mel knows that her sweet, docile husband Joe would never, ever cheat. But when Suze, her sister-in-law, hires a honeytrap to test Karl, the results blow Mel’s world apart.

Mel, Joe, Suze, Karl. They’re family. They’re friends. And they’re about to discover whether or not they can navigate those other F-words – fidelity and forgiveness.

Or is relationship misbehaviour much more fun when it’s a two-way street? …

Reviewed by Linda Gallagher

For eighteen years the Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other, sharing everything from Chinese food to chicken pox to carpool duty. Parents and children alike are best friends - so it’s no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily’s friendship blossoms into something more. They’ve been soul mates since they were born.

When the midnight calls come in from the hospital, no one is prepared for the appalling truth: Emily is dead at seventeen from a gunshot wound to the head as part of an apparent suicide pact. The gun holds a single unspent bullet that Chris tells police he intended for himself, but a local detective has doubts. And the Hartes and Golds, in a single terrifying moment, must face every parent’s worst fear: do we ever really know our children at all?

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