Category: fiction

#NewRelease – The Secret Life of Carolyn Russell by Gail Aldwin @gailaldwin #fiction #truecrime

    Synopsis   A true-crime podcaster investigates a decades-old suspected abduction, in this powerful psychological suspense novel. 1979 Sixteen-year-old Carolyn Russell grows increasingly infatuated with her school mathematics teacher who is also giving her private lessons. Then she disappears. 2014 Struggling journalist Stephanie Brett creates a true-crime podcast focused on the disappearance of Carolyn […]

Guest Post – Where The Grass Grows Blue by Hope Gibbs @HopeGibbstuib @Bookgal #fiction #women

    Synopsis   Penny Crenshaw’s divorce and her husband’s swift remarriage to a much younger woman have been hot topics around Atlanta’s social circles. After a year of enduring the cruel gossip, Penny leaps from the frying pan into the fire by heading back to Kentucky to settle her grandmother’s estate. Reluctantly, Penny travels […]

Excerpt & #Giveaway – Water Music by Marcia Peck @Bookgal #fiction #contemporary

    Synopsis   The bridge at Sagamore was closed when we got there that summer of 1956. We had to cross the canal at Buzzards Bay over the only other roadway that tethered Cape Cod to the mainland. Thus twelve-year-old Lily Grainger, while safe from ‘communists and the Pope,’ finds her family suddenly adrift. […]