Archive for October 14th, 2009

Lara Lington thinks of herself as a fairly hip twenties girl, living in the 21st century. But the last thing she expects at her Great Aunt Sadie’s funeral is for Sadie herself to appear and demand for the whole thing to be stopped.

Lara thinks she’s going mad: how on Earth can she hear and see a dead person? It turns out Great Aunt Sadie is actually a ghost and a ghost with a mission: to track down her missing Dragonfly necklace. Sadie eventually manages to convince Lara to help look for the necklace.

Can they find it, and can Sadie ever rest in peace?

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I’d never heard of the name Mary Malone until we joined Twitter and Mary tweeted about her newest novel Never Tear Us Apart. Mary then offered us a copy of the book to review and I read it pretty much as soon as it arrived. I absolutely loved it and you can read my review here. Mary kindly agreed to do an author interview with us and here it is!

1. Describe your novel, Never Tear Us Apart, in a sentence.

Never Tear Us Apart is a story of revenge and retribution, fuelled by the paranoid voices in a woman’s head.

2. What, if anything, are you currently working on - will it be another Poolbeg Crimson novel?

I’m currently working on my fourth novel, Playing With Fire. A ‘who burnt the house down’ story. It will be published by Poolbeg Crimson in May 2010.

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Originally slated to be out on the 1st October this year, The Debutante by Kathleen Tessaro, has been pushed back until April 1st when the hardcover will be released. You’ll have to wait until September for the paperback, though,which is quite a wait if you hate reading hardbacks (like me!), but more on that another day. The cover for The Debutante is gorgeous, the pink works really well on the black and the synopsis also sounds great:

Can the secrets of one woman’s past change another woman’s future? Cate is a gifted young artist who survives in New York by producing remarkable copies of Old Masters.She arrives in London to stay with her aunt Rachel who owns an auction house, determined to leave the pain of her past behind.

Cate is sent to Devon with Rachel’s colleague Jack to value the contents of Endsleigh, the grand Georgian home of a former socialite. But inside, its once elegant interiors are now worn with age and dust. Then Cate discovers hidden in the back of one of the bookshelves, an old shoebox containing an exquisite pair of silk dancing shoes from the 1930’s along with a mysterious collection of objects – a diamond brooch, a photograph of a handsome young sailor, a dance card, and a beautiful pearl and emerald bracelet from Tiffany’s.

Unable to solve the questions in her own life, Cate quickly becomes engaged in solving the mystery of the shoe box and begins to unravel the story of Baby Blythe; bright, beautiful and reckless, she was the most famous debutante of her generation. The clues in the box reveal a tale of a dark, addictive love, a tale that will lead Cate to uncover some secrets of her own.