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Isobel Blackthorn
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Saddled With a Murder
Ruth Finlay Mysteries Book 5
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The BlurbWhen Ruth finds herself saddled with writing a feature on Myrtle Bay’s annual horse carnival, she knows she is out of her depth. Horse racing is just not her thing.
A fatal accident during a maiden race on the first day catapults Ruth headlong into a confusing inquiry. Her sidekick Doris insists the horse was nobbled and the race was fixed – and that they’re
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The second in The Curse of Time series finds protagonist Amelina a confident sixteen year old who is beginning to come to terms with her magical abilities. The press are at the front door after her father’s miraculous rejuvenation - how can anyone ag ...more |
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Fanning the Flame is the second in The Maricopa County Shifters and protagonist Elisa has scarcely recovered from nearly burning alive in a fire. When her old friend Luke offers sympathy and comfort, she isn’t sure she can trust him or her feelings f ...more |
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| The Blight is the second in the Beneath Beauford Grove series and the tension does not let up. Eva is back in Alabama, pregnant, and watching with horror as the olive trees all around die, the soil left utterly depleted. The ancient Covenant reigns, ...more | |
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Murder on the Great Ocean Walk (Ruth Finlay Mysteries Book 4):
"Journalist Ruth Finlay is resting at home suffering with the flu. Her neighbor Doris bullies Ruth into accompanying her on a hiking tour of Australia’s Great Ocean Walk. Ruth needs stories for the magazine so inconceivably agrees to go on a week long"
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"Isobel Blackthorn’s Secrets Taken to the Grave is a gothic tale steeped in atmospheric dread, where the dead refuse to stay silent and the living are just as treacherous. Haunted by Charles McCleod’s ghost, his nocturnal noises pulling her from sleep"
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A realistic and gripping read that confronts the complex issue of domestic violence and coercive control head on. The main character Elisa is well-crafted and believable. The pacing is good, and the paranormal element works well in the context. |
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A Match Made in Heaven is a charming, light-hearted romance set mainly in Wales. The main character Emily reminds me of a younger self, lost, searching for a direction in life. She has the right mix of confidence, defiance and recklessness typical of ...more |
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A Cape, A Rock and A Murder (Ruth Finlay Mysteries Book 3):
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Ruth Finlay finds herself embroiled in another murder investigation when she finds a body at the bottom of a cliff. Her neighbour and wacky dresser, Doris, takes control and drags poor Ruth a" Read more of this review » |
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“Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom.
But the personality formed in the environment of coercive control is not well adapted to adult life. The survivor is left with fundamental problems in basic trust, autonomy, and initiative. She approaches the task of early adulthood――establishing independence and intimacy――burdened by major impairments in self-care, in cognition and in memory, in identity, and in the capacity to form stable relationships.
She is still a prisoner of her childhood; attempting to create a new life, she reencounters the trauma.”
― Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
But the personality formed in the environment of coercive control is not well adapted to adult life. The survivor is left with fundamental problems in basic trust, autonomy, and initiative. She approaches the task of early adulthood――establishing independence and intimacy――burdened by major impairments in self-care, in cognition and in memory, in identity, and in the capacity to form stable relationships.
She is still a prisoner of her childhood; attempting to create a new life, she reencounters the trauma.”
― Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
“The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.”
― Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
― Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
“Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.”
― Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
― Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
“Combat and rape, the public and private forms of organized social violence, are primarily experiences of adolescent and early adult life. The United States Army enlists young men at seventeen; the average age of the Vietnam combat soldier was nineteen. In many other countries boys are conscripted for military service while barely in their teens. Similarly, the period of highest risk for rape is in late adolescence. Half of all victims are aged twenty or younger at the time they are raped; three-quarters are between the ages of thirteen and twenty-six. The period of greatest psychological vulnerability is also in reality the period of greatest traumatic exposure, for both young men and young women. Rape and combat might thus be considered complementary social rites of initiation into the coercive violence at the foundation of adult society. They are the paradigmatic forms of trauma for women and men.”
― Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
― Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
“The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.
Atrocities, however, refuse to be buried. Equally as powerful as the desire to deny atrocities is the conviction that denial does not work. Folk wisdom is filled with ghosts who refuse to rest in their graves until their stories are told. Murder will out. Remembering and telling the truth about terrible events are prerequisites both for the restoration of the social order and for the healing of individual victims.
The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma. People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory, and fragmented manner that undermines their credibility and thereby serves the twin imperatives of truth-telling and secrecy. When the truth is finally recognized, survivors can begin their recovery. But far too often secrecy prevails, and the story of the traumatic event surfaces not as a verbal narrative but as a symptom.
The psychological distress symptoms of traumatized people simultaneously call attention to the existence of an unspeakable secret and deflect attention from it. This is most apparent in the way traumatized people alternate between feeling numb and reliving the event. The dialectic of trauma gives rise to complicated, sometimes uncanny alterations of consciousness, which George Orwell, one of the committed truth-tellers of our century, called "doublethink," and which mental health professionals, searching for calm, precise language, call "dissociation." It results in protean, dramatic, and often bizarre symptoms of hysteria which Freud recognized a century ago as disguised communications about sexual abuse in childhood. . . .”
― Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Atrocities, however, refuse to be buried. Equally as powerful as the desire to deny atrocities is the conviction that denial does not work. Folk wisdom is filled with ghosts who refuse to rest in their graves until their stories are told. Murder will out. Remembering and telling the truth about terrible events are prerequisites both for the restoration of the social order and for the healing of individual victims.
The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma. People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory, and fragmented manner that undermines their credibility and thereby serves the twin imperatives of truth-telling and secrecy. When the truth is finally recognized, survivors can begin their recovery. But far too often secrecy prevails, and the story of the traumatic event surfaces not as a verbal narrative but as a symptom.
The psychological distress symptoms of traumatized people simultaneously call attention to the existence of an unspeakable secret and deflect attention from it. This is most apparent in the way traumatized people alternate between feeling numb and reliving the event. The dialectic of trauma gives rise to complicated, sometimes uncanny alterations of consciousness, which George Orwell, one of the committed truth-tellers of our century, called "doublethink," and which mental health professionals, searching for calm, precise language, call "dissociation." It results in protean, dramatic, and often bizarre symptoms of hysteria which Freud recognized a century ago as disguised communications about sexual abuse in childhood. . . .”
― Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
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