Carla Neggers's Blog, page 11
August 9, 2019
Sharpe & Donovan Trivia Quiz and RIVAL’S BREAK Excerpt
Rival’s Break hits stores on August 27, just a couple of weeks from now. (It’s currently 30% off in hardcover at Amazon and B&N online; I don’t know for how long so grab your copy today!) We’ve done up a fun Sharpe & Donovan Trivia Quiz (my kids love trivia), and you can read Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of Rival’s Break at the same time.
Click here for the quiz, excerpt and more info.
And don’t forget Impostor’s Lure is in paperback now!
Fun fact: the photos above and below feature the Cliff Walk in Ardmore, Ireland, where a scene in Rival’s … Read More
August 6, 2019
Visiting the English Cotswolds
Whatever time of year, rain or shine, Joe and I have enjoyed our visits to the Cotswolds west of London. Now we need to visit when it snows! Or just go again, anytime. The rolling hills of this beautiful part of the English countryside are crisscrossed with marked trails. I bought a big map–yes, paper–to guide us. We did go astray a few times, but that’s half the fun. Well. Except for that time when I got into nettle. I hadn’t done that since I was a kid and it stung. Our inn was very helpful in providing baking soda, not to mention a terrific gin-and-tonic, and I was back on th… Read More
August 2, 2019
Beautiful Scotland
Scotland captured my imagination long before I ever traveled there. We went back in June, for two wonderful weeks before the busy-ness of summer set in at home. We had some cool, showery days that would feel good right now!
That’s me below, in the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh. The gardens are a fantastic place to walk off an overnight flight across the Atlantic. Joe and I had scones and tea overlooking the gardens. His brother and sister and their spouses arrived the next day and the six of us dived in to our Scotland adventures.
From Edinburgh we drove to Pitlochry, where we did the Lin of … Read More
July 30, 2019
IMPOSTOR’S LURE is now in paperback!
Have you been waiting for the paperback release of Impostor’s Lure? Today’s the day! Awarded Just Reviews Book of the Year, it’s a fast-paced story featuring FBI agents Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan. Also playing a role: their small Boston-based team, their families in Maine and Ireland and their friends, including an English art thief and MI5 asset and an Irish priest (reader favorites!). The story takes place in Boston, Maine, Ireland and England, great for any of us with midsummer wanderlust.
Master of suspense and New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers de… Read More
July 26, 2019
Phoenix Books in Rutland on August 29!
I’m thrilled to be returning to Phoenix Books in Rutland on Thursday, August 29, for a launch party for Rival’s Break. We’ll chat, celebrate and have a great time! The fun starts at 6:30 PM. This is a great independent bookstore located in downtown Rutland, Vermont. There are many wonderful places to stay if you’re visiting the area for a few days.
See you then. I can’t wait!
July 20, 2019
Summer in Boston
Does summer in the city appeal to you? I spent my first summer in Boston after my junior year in college and had a great time. Long walks in the evening, 4th of July fireworks, ice cream shops, harbor dinner cruises (well, one), Beacon Hill window boxes and countless other bonuses of a city summer. We love our hilltop house in Vermont and our excursions to Ireland and Maine, but our July, August and September visits to Boston are special, and not just because our grandchildren live there! Not something I thought much about that first summer in the city…
Some of my books set entirely or partiall… Read More
June 20, 2019
Happy Summer!
Happy summer! We’re in summer mode here on our hilltop. We’re just back from a couple of weeks in beautiful Scotland and long, long June days. We were joined by Joe’s brother and sister and their spouses for a fun get-together. Memorable walks, dinners, laughs and sightseeing. The weather was sometimes rainy, sometimes sunny (Scotland, right?) but we loved every minute. Below are photos of Isle of Skye.
I found time to start my summer reading. I read Jane Harper’s The Dry, a gripping novel set in Australia. Grabbing your e-reader for summer travel? Several of my boo… Read More
May 28, 2019
Beautiful Maine
Last weekend I scooted over to Portland for the Maine Writers’ Retreat, an annual gathering of about 40 writers at all stages of their careers. Great fun! I’ve spent a lot of time in Maine, especially along the coast (“down east” of Acadia) but also inland, with friends who have a “camp” on Rangely Lake. Maine has served as a setting for a number of my romantic suspense novels:
Rival’s Break (releases August 27)
Southern Maine is FBI agents Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan’s home base in the Sharpe & Donovan series, which launched in 2011 with Saint’s Ga… Read More
May 13, 2019
Kiss the Moon gets a new look
Perennial reader favorite Kiss the Moon gets a new look! This standalone romantic suspense novel is set in maple-sugaring season in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, where my youngest brother lives. (I have three brothers and three sisters!)
Lost in the frozen woods of New Hampshire, Penelope Chesnut discovers the wreckage of a small plane. An aviator herself, she sees clues to a conspiracy in the rusted-out remains.
Rumors of her discovery bring Wyatt Sinclair to Cold Spring, determined to put to rest a family scandal and learn what really happened to his legendary uncle, who had disappear… Read More
May 7, 2019
Happy Mother’s Day!
Sunday is Mother’s Day. We’ll be visiting my mother. At 84, she’s hanging in there, and every day with her is a gift. She grew up in a tiny town in the Florida Panhandle and married a Dutch sailor, my father. Long story short, they packed up the car with my brother and sister, then toddlers, and moved to New England just before I was born. Four more kids ensued, and while my father died in 1990, my mother continues to live on our family homestead on the western edge of the Quabbin Reservoir in rural Massachusetts. In addition to the seven of us, she has 13 grandchildren and 12 great-… Read More
