Carola Dunn's Blog

November 01st, 2021

The Corpse at the Crystal Palace is on sale through November at Amazon: Only $3.99 for the ebook, $7.74 for the hardcover.
https://www.amazon.com/Corpse-Crystal-Palace-Dalrymple-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B0791JL98B/

Just in time for the holidays

A new edition of Mistletoe and Murder with beautiful new artwork comes out Oct. 13th. A great gift for you and/or the mystery readers on your list! Join Daisy and assorted relatives in a 15th century fortified manor house, home of a decidedly eccentric family, for Christmas 1923.
https://www.amazon.com/Mistletoe-Murder-Dalrymple-Mystery-Mysteries/dp/1250754429/ref

Left Coast Crime

Next month I'm going to Left Coast Crime in San Diego (which happily happens to be the area where my son and grandkids live). I'm going to be on a panel with Rhys Bowen, Catriona Macpherson et al about the continuing appeal in the US of British mysteries.
If you have any thoughts on the subject, please let me know!

Looking ahead...

In time for Christmas 2020, Mistletoe and murder will be coming out in large format paperback with a beautiful brand new cover.
It will include a Daisy short story that's been out of print for years.

Halloween

Halloween is nearly here--did you know I wrote a ghost book? In The Actress and the Rake, the heroine's grandfather's ghost keeps interfering in her life, and not with helpful intentions! Originally published as The Lady and the Rake because Kensington's art department said the title was too long to fit on the cover...
www.amazon.com/Actress-Rake-Carola-Dunn-ebook/dp/B00408AN32/ref

US Paperback

Comes out August 27th
I don't know why this always comes out negative. Below is the UK cover, same art but the proper colours. WEIRD!
https://www.amazon.com/Corpse-Crystal-Palace-Dalrymple-Mysteries/dp/1250209048/

Benefit for NZ victims

This is an anthology in aid of the victims of the mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand. It includes a science fiction story written by yours truly several decades ago--How to Babysit an Alien--about a teenage girl and her experiences with a variety of non-human children--seemed appropriate for the cause. Do buy if you can, to help the families put their lives back together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbxpBGpbVhA
http://www.lulu.com/shop/ebook/product-24115880.html
http://www.lulu.com/s…/haven/paperback/product-24116746.html

Damsel reissue with new cover art

And included Daisy short story, Unhappy Medium!

Guest blog post: where my ideas come from.

https://anastasiapollack.blogspot.com/2019/05/book-club-friday-author-carola-dunn-on.html
This is REALLY weird. As you probably know, these colours are like a negative of the actual cover. No idea why it came out like this or what to do about it!

INTERVIEW with James Terry

https://www.jamesdaterryauthor.com/?p=767
"Although Carola Dunn has lived in the US for 50 years, most of her 60+ books are set in her native England. The twenty-three Daisy Dalrymple mysteries take place in the 1920s and the Cornish mysteries around 1970. Carola’s books have been translated into Norwegian, Polish, Hungarian, French, German, Spanish, Czech, Russian, Hebrew, and possibly some other languages she’s forgotten. After too many years under a Southern Californian sun, which turned her red hair blond, she now lives in Oregon."