Catherine Meyrick's Blog, page 18
July 21, 2022
The King’s Inquisitor by Tonya Ulynn Brown
Today I’m delighted to be sharing an excerpt from Tonya Ulynn Brown’s newly released novel The King’s Inquisitor as part of a blog tour hosted by The Coffee Pot Book Club. The King’s Inquisitor is the second book on Tonya’s Stuart Monarch’s series and is set in Scotland in the early 1590s during the North Berwick witch trials.
I made my way once more to the dreaded establishment. Ten more witches had been arrested, and I wanted a chance to question them before Seton got his hands on th...
July 18, 2022
Cragside: A 1930s Murder Mystery by M J Porter
Today I’m delighted to be sharing an excerpt of M. J. Porter’s recent novel, Cragside: A 1930s Murder Mystery, as part of a blog tour hosted by The Coffee Pot Book Club.
“Ah, Lady Merryweather.” The voice of Detective Inspector Aldcroft is uncertain, far from the confident man I was forced to speak to yesterday. He’s not at all the confident man who ordered my apprehension for a crime I hadn’t committed.
“Detective Inspector,” my words are like ice. I see him shiver at them as he co...
July 13, 2022
The Girl from Bologna by Siobhan Daiko
Today I’m delighted to be sharing an excerpt from Siobhan Daiko’s newly released novel The Girl from Bologna as part of a blog tour hosted by The Coffee Pot Book Club. The Girl from Bologna is part of Siobhan’s series Girls from the Italian Resistance.
I went to visit Rebecca the afternoon after my parents left. I remember climbing the stairs to the piano nobile and following her into the Matatias’ living room. It was such a beautiful place. Intricate glass and ironwork chandeliers hun...
July 8, 2022
‘No pen can write, no tongue can tell the aching’ – Transported convicts, love tokens and tattoos
Ships in the Thames by Samuel Atkins c.1790Courtesy of the National Library of Australia
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In 1877 at Gunning, New South Wales, Susannah Watson, aged eighty-three, died in he...
July 5, 2022
Leningrad: The People’s War by Rachel R. Heil
Today I’m delighted to be sharing an excerpt from Rachel R. Heil’s newly released novel Leningrad: The People’s War as part of a blog tour hosted by The Coffee Pot Book Club. This book is the first in the Leningrad series set during World War 2.
“Never been.” Tatiana’s eyes scanned the red and gold decorated lobby until she noticed an unwelcome visitor approaching with outstretched arms.
“Tatiana Ivankova, what a pleasant surprise!”
Josef Krasnoff had dark skin with a hint of a m...
July 1, 2022
My Reading – June 2022
The King’s Inquisitor by Tonya Ulynn Brown
The business of witchcraft is a foul trade and only a scrupulous man is fitted for the task.
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
In October there were yellow trees. Then the clocks went back the hour and the long November winds came in and blew, and stripped the trees bare.
Evil in Emerald by A M Stuart
As the last strains of a waltz died away, Harriet Gordon looked up into Simon Hume’s handsome face.
June 28, 2022
More Precious Than Gold by Renee Yancy
Today I’m delighted to be sharing an excerpt from Renee Yancy’s recently released novel More Precious Than Gold as part of a blog tour hosted by The Coffee Pot Book Club. More Precious Than Gold is the second book in The Hearts of Gold trilogy.
The summer sky twilight had deepened to rose and gold, and a sweet breeze laden with the scent of Mama’s roses rustled the lace curtains at the parlor windows. Mama’s eyes were puffy, but she bravely pasted a tremulous smile on her face as Papa ...
June 27, 2022
Cold Blows the Wind – The Soundtrack
People have always loved to sing, probably for as long as there have been people. These days, despite most people still loving music, most of us are too self conscious to sing in front of others, especially unaccompanied. It wasn’t always this way. In the not so distant past, after the day’s work was done , a family would sit at the hearth together, listen to and tell stories, and sing. The songs were those handed down over generations, changed slightly in the repetition, or to suit the times. I...
June 21, 2022
Raleigh – Tudor Adventurer by Tony Riches
Today I’m delighted to be sharing an excerpt from Tony Riches’ most recent novel, Raleigh – Tudor Adventurer, as part of a blog tour hosted by The Coffee Pot Book Club. This is the third book in The Elizabethan Series.
Greenwich Palace, 1584I’d never seen the presence chamber so crowded. The queen sat on her gilded throne, flanked on both sides by her ladies in their best gowns. Every space was filled with courtiers, and I was pleased to see all the members of the Privy Council, i...
June 16, 2022
The Wistful and the Good by G. M. Baker
Today I’m delighted to be sharing an excerpt from G. M. Baker’s novel, The Wistful and the Good as part of a blog tour hosted by The Coffee Pot Book Club. The Wistful and the Good is set in eighth century Northumbria and is the first book in the Cuthbert’s People series.
Edith put two fingers in her mouth and whistled loudly. Three boys came scampering at the command.
“Run to the fields and tell the men that the thegn summons them,” she told them. She held out a hand to her husband ...
