Carola Dunn's Blog, page 14

Book signings Dec/Jan

Signing Heirs of the Body at Seattle Mystery, noon Dec. 14th.
Three signings in SoCalif in January--

Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego,

Mystery Ink in Huntington Beach,

Book'em Mysteries in South Pasadena.

Support Indie Booksellers!

Catching up with myself

Only in books does time stand still. I kept growing older but my heroines and my sleuth didn't. Read how I decided to catch up with myself:

http://marilynmeredith.blogspot.com/2013/10/catching-up-with-myselfby-carola-dunn.html

More Daisy in Polish

My Polish publisher has bought the translation rights to the rest of the Daisy Dalrymple mysteries, from MISTLETOE AND MURDER to HEIRS OF THE BODY (which doesn't even come out US/UK till December). I found the first 6 Polish covers online. The first is here:

    http://caroladunn.weebly.com/1/post/2013/08/welcome-polish-readers.html

The 3rd is above. This is the 2nd, The Winter Garden Mystery:
Here are Murder on the Flying Scotsman, Damsel in Distress, and Dead in the Water:

Now in PAPERBACK

The second  Cornish Mystery is now out in a paperback edition. You can read about it here: http://murderousmusings.blogspot.com/2013/10/a-colourful-death-now-in-paperback.html

or read an excerpt and see some neat pics of Cornwall  here:

http://historicalfictionexcerpts.blogspot.com/2013/10/a-colourful-death-now-in-paperback.html

This second site also has links to online and bookstore sellers.

Publishers Weekly review

Heirs of the Body: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery
Carola Dunn. Minotaur,  ISBN 978-0-312-67549-3

Set in 1927, Dunn’s entertaining 21st Daisy Dalrymple mystery (after 2012’s Gone West) takes Daisy to her childhood home, Fairacres, in Worcestershire. Daisy’s cousin, Lord Dalrymple, needs her help vetting candidates for designation as heir apparent to his title and estate. A number of claimants from the far corners of the British Empire, including a South African diamond merchant and a Jamaican sailor, gather at Fairacres, where drawing-room manners clash with colonial informality and ignorance, much to Daisy’s mother’s dismay. When strange accidents begin to happen, Daisy and her Scotland Yard inspector husband, Alec Fletcher, suspect that one of the candidates will go to great lengths to establish his right of inheritance—perhaps as far as murder. Daisy and Alec must do their utmost to discover a possible killer and protect the innocent as well as the legitimate heir. Fans of Downto[w]n Abbey will be delighted.
Reviewed on 09/27/2013 | Release date: 12/10/2013 |

Funny that PW can't spell Downton Abbey!

The Tudor Signet

(That's SIGNET, not SECRET!)


Can't for the life of me remember why I decided to blog about this particular title, but I did, so here's where to read it: http://murderousmusings.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-tudor-signet.html http://www.amazon.com/The-Tudor-Signet-ebook/dp/B004A90G4C

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-tudor-signet-carola-dunn/1017477023?ean=2940000115206

Facebook anyone?

with LJ Sellers at book signing I mostly keep this blog for book news, rather than chit-chat. If anyone would like to connect more socially, I have a personal FB page, plus 4 book pages--CarolaDunnAuthor, Daisy Dalrymple, Cornish Mysteries, and RegenciesByCarolaDunn.

I'd love to meet you on any of them!

Welcome, Polish readers!

Serdecznie witam wszystkich polskich czytelników! Życzę przyjemnego czytania.

Crossed Quills on sale

Crossed Quills now on sale for Kindle: $1.99 US/£1.34 UK

Star-crossed authors: Pippa writes Radical political tracts under her deceased father's pseudonym. Wynn Selworth writes spicy Gothic melodramas under the pen-name Valentine Dred. Then Wynn inherits a noble title and must make his maiden speech in the House of Lords. He begs for help from Pippa's father, whose writing he admires. How can Pippa aid him without giving away her secret? How can Wynn keep his racy authorship hidden from the Ton?

Read a couple of excerpts here: http://historicalfictionexcerpts.blogspot.com/2013/07/crossed-quills-kindle-sale.html

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00457VK8U/ref=rdr_kindle_ext_tmb

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crossed-Quillls-ebook/dp/B00457VK8U/ref=sr_1_57/280-6342243-5305664?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1374874937&sr=1-57&keywords=carola+dunn

Alec's new car

Image created by Simon GP Geoghegan DCI Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, Daisy's husband, is getting a new car, a royal blue 1927 Austin Twelve.


How do you like it? Plenty of room for the family or  DS Tom Tring!