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Argh Author: Brenda Magriet’s Suspect Attraction

. Our own Brenda Magriet has a book out now: Suspect Attraction.

A steamy, later-in-life, contemporary romance mystery by Brenda Margriet (released April 8)

A silver-haired charmer with a shameful secret. A broken-hearted matchmaker with a guilty burden. And a bewildering disappearance that could wrench them apart.

Regina Blynde knows Seth Updike is trouble the minute he strides into Blynde Dating Agency. That’s trouble with a capital T—tantalizing, tasty, and tempting.

Resolved never to risk loving someone only to lose them again, Ginnie keeps things strictly professional and matches him with a wealthy widow.

Who promptly goes missing.

Ginnie’s search for the truth makes it impossible to avoid Seth. And when he sets out to woo her, she finds him too hard to resist.

But as the evidence mounts up and mysterious circumstances multiply, Ginnie must face a shocking fact—she’s falling in love with the prime suspect.

Available in print and ebook
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D49KH8J8/
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/en/ebook/suspect...
Apple: https://books.apple.com/us/book/suspe...
B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/susp...

This is a Good Book Thursday (hey, it’s still Thursday)

What did you read this week?

Working Wednesday: Multitasking

I’m trying to figure out character arc, subplot, and setting while not forgetting the dog (in the story). Multi-tasking, that’s me.

What did you work on this week?

Happiness is Discovery

There is something about finding great Stuff that I wasn’t expecting that makes me happy. Like cleaning out my closet and discovering something marvelous from ten years ago (in the midst of all the what-was-I-thinking? stuff from back then). Or looking for something on eBay and tripping over something I wasn’t looking for that turns out to be just what I needed. Or browsing Petfinder looking for a dachshund that needed a home and finding the perfect dachshund-chihuahua-alien mix (Johnny is the perfect dog). The important thing about finding something is that I wasn’t expecting it. It’s not like I went looking for a black tank top and found one. It’s a bolt from the blue that makes me smile.

What gave you a bolt of happiness this week?

This is a Good Book Thursday: Fiction Would Be Good

This week I read drug inserts, crochet patterns, sheet pan recipes, news stories, and a book on Warhol. I really need to read fiction again.

Tell me a good book you read this week, please.

Working Wednesday: We’re Back

So I had a truly lousy six weeks in there, but now things are much better and I’m back at work. Bob is thrilled. I’m just happy I’m not dead. We’re swapping chapters back and forth now, and the book is changing dramatically, but for the better, so that’s good. Nothing but good times, that’s what I say.

What did you work on this week?

Happiness is Something Coming

I love this Christopher Niemann cover from The New Yorker, the idea of something exciting coming out of the darkness. It’s a good metaphor for art and for writing, but it’s also just good for life. Something’s coming. Good, bad, indifferent, something’s coming, things are going to change, it will be interesting. This cover made me happy this week.

What made you happy?

This is a Good Book Thursday: Research

I’m reading a book on Andy Warhol as research for the book-in-progress. What I want to read is a classic British murder mystery. As a substitute, I’m watching old episodes of Elementary in between drafts.

How are you getting your narrative fix?

Working Wednesday: How Did It Get To Be Wednesday So Fast?

Man, the days just fly by. I just screwed up a draft of the current book that took me eight days. Bob is being patient. Kind of.

How did your work go this week?

Argh Author: Barbara Monajem’s The Wallflower Ruse, #54 in the Revenge of the Wallflowers series

Our own Barbara Monojem has a book out now, The Wallflower Ruse, #54 in the Revenge of the Wallflowers series

Lord Restive wonders why Lucinda Belair grew up to be a grumpy wallflower—and now, because of a message in code, he is forced to suspect her of treason.

Lucinda wishes her childhood friend Restive hadn’t grown up to be a horrid libertine—and now, because of the coded message, she has to suspect him right back.

Soon, they are compelled to work together to save England from an unnamed disaster. But Restive is intolerably rude to Lucinda, and she longs for revenge – to show him she’s intelligent and capable and can handle whatever a patriotic Englishwoman must do.

Is this the opportunity for Lucinda the wallflower to bloom at last? Will Restive’s bad reputation forever stand in his way—or might Lucinda’s desire for revenge be replaced by love?

https://books2read.com/u/b60vRx