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June 18, 2016
In the Tick of Time Kindle ebook Giveaway
I am running my Kindle freebie a little differently this time. If you would like a free Kindle copy of In the Tick of Time, read on!
Only visitors to my website will be able to get a free copy, it is still a paid download at Amazon.com. (Of course, if you have a KU subscription, you can read it for free anyway!)
For a limited time, click here to claim your free Kindle copy of In the Tick of Time.
Do things with lots of legs creep you out? This may not be the book for you…
Award-winning author P.D. Workman’s In the Tick of Time will leave your skin crawling every time you hike through the woods or long grass, long after you have finished reading it. A well-crafted suspense novel that will take you into the psyche of both the flawed investigator and slightly-deranged perpetrator. You will look at your coworkers differently after this.
Matt Malloy, infectious diseases expert for the DOH vector-borne disease division, knew there was something wrong with the Buffalo Head infection cluster as soon as it hit his desk. But knowing it instinctively and proving it were two completely different things, especially when his boss and coworkers already suspected that, battling sleep deprivation, he’d already gone around the bend.
Matt knew that solving the mysteries of the Buffalo Head cluster was a matter of life and death. He just didn’t know that it could be a matter of his life and death.
It could happen to you. Maybe it already has.
Praise for In the Tick of Time
“I thoroughly enjoyed this page turner and look forward to more.”
“I thought to myself, ‘This place is probably crawling with ticks.’ I may be marked for life.”
“After I was done walking in the woods… it felt like something was crawling on me still. I love [P.D. Workman’s] work and [she does] an amazing job.”
Praise for P.D. Workman
“Every single one of [P.D. Workman’s] books has spoken to me in ways no one or almost anything else has. And I have found strength in the books I’ve read.”
“The way that P.D. Workman writes just flows amazingly and allows the reader to get really invested in a book.”
June 16, 2016
New release: In the Tick of Time
It’s out!
Find In the Tick of Time on Amazon in ebook or paperback format.
Do things with lots of legs creep you out? This may not be the book for you…
Award-winning author P.D. Workman’s In the Tick of Time will leave your skin crawling every time you hike through the woods or long grass, long after you have finished reading it. A well-crafted suspense novel that will take you into the psyche of both the flawed investigator and slightly-deranged perpetrator. You will look at your coworkers differently after this.
Matt Malloy, infectious diseases expert for the DOH vector-borne disease division, knew there was something wrong with the Buffalo Head infection cluster as soon as it hit his desk. But knowing it instinctively and proving it were two completely different things, especially when his boss and coworkers already suspected that, battling sleep deprivation, he’d already gone around the bend.
Matt knew that solving the mysteries of the Buffalo Head cluster was a matter of life and death. He just didn’t know that it could be a matter of his life and death.
It could happen to you. Maybe it already has…
Praise for In the Tick of Time
“I thoroughly enjoyed this page turner and look forward to more.”
“I thought to myself, ‘This place is probably crawling with ticks.’ I may be marked for life.”
“After I was done walking in the woods… it felt like something was crawling on me still. I love [P.D. Workman’s] work and [she does] an amazing job.”
Praise for P.D. Workman
“Every single one of [P.D. Workman’s] books has spoken to me in ways no one or almost anything else has. And I have found strength in the books I’ve read.”
“The way that P.D. Workman writes just flows amazingly and allows the reader to get really invested in a book.”
June 14, 2016
Teaser Tuesday Double-Header!
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules at Books and a Beat. Anyone can play along!
Two teasers today, so keep scrolling down after the first one!
I am currently reading The Murder that Never Was by Andrea Kane. It is book five of the Forensics Instincts series. A unique plot, good characterization, and interesting twists. I’m finding it very engaging so far!
Lisa Barnes couldn’t believe how quickly her luck had changed.
A week ago, she’d been in poverty-stricken hell. Now, she had a job, a place to stay in a nice Chicago neighborhood, and maybe, just maybe, a future.
Andrea Kane, The Murder that Never Was
A serendipitous crossing of paths between two women leaves one of them dead and the other a fugitive— hiding behind one lie after another to escape a cold-blooded killer.
A 16-year-old female gymnast’s dream of Olympic gold is shattered when the “supplement” she has been taking turns out to be a designer performance enhancing drug.
Her trainer, Julie Forman, is furious at the people who victimized her star pupil, and goes on a personal crusade for the truth. That crusade is interrupted by a serendipitous crossing of paths between Julie and Lisa Barnes, a down-on-her-luck woman seeking a job. This chance meeting lands one of them six feet under and the other hiding behind one lie after another.
In a twisting tale of medical research gone awry, bodies are piling up between Chicago, New Jersey and Vermont as a megalomaniacal genius will stop at nothing to eradicate the research error and everyone involved.
And because I am getting ready to launch In the Tick of Time, you get a second teaser from my new suspense novel which follows sleep-deprived Matt Malloy’s investigation into a baffling outbreak of tick-borne disease and death.
“That was May,” Jared said, enunciating the words like Matt was hard of hearing. “It’s the end of June now.”
“Right.” Matt looked at his desk calendar. “It’s June.” He ventured a smile. “Just testing you.”
P.D. Workman, In the Tick of Time
Do things with lots of legs creep you out? This may not be the book for you…
Award-winning author P.D. Workman’s In the Tick of Time will leave your skin crawling every time you hike through the woods or long grass, long after you have finished reading it. A well-crafted suspense novel that will take you into the psyche of both the flawed investigator and slightly-deranged perpetrator. You will look at your coworkers differently after this.
Matt Malloy, infectious diseases expert, for the DOH vector-borne disease division, knew there was something wrong with the Buffalo Head infection cluster as soon as it hit his desk. But knowing it instinctively and proving it were two completely different things, especially when his boss and coworkers already suspected that, battling sleep deprivation, he’d already gone around the bend.
Matt knew that solving the mysteries of the Buffalo Head cluster was a matter of life and death. He just didn’t know that it could be a matter of his life and death.
It could happen to you. Maybe it already has.
Praise for In the Tick of Time
“I thoroughly enjoyed this page turner and look forward to more.”
“I thought to myself, ‘This place is probably crawling with ticks.’ I may be marked for life.”
“After I was done walking in the woods… it felt like something was crawling on me still. I love [P.D. Workman’s] work and [she does] an amazing job.”
Praise for P.D. Workman
“Every single one of [P.D. Workman’s] books has spoken to me in ways no one or almost anything else has. And I have found strength in the books I’ve read.”
“The way that P.D. Workman writes just flows amazingly and allows the reader to get really invested in a book.”
June 7, 2016
Excerpt from The Nature of the Beast
I am getting the final formatting done on In the Tick of Time and getting it ready to publish! Watch for the announcement here in the near future.
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules at Books and a Beat. Anyone can play along!
I enjoyed reading The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny, book 11 of the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Series, a thriller set in the backwoods of Quebec, Canada. The audiobook was apparently read by a different narrator than the first ten books in the series (who passed away) and I found his pronunciation of a number of words to be odd. Perhaps a British actor was not the best choice for a book sprinkled with Quebecois French words and names. And apparently no one involved in the production knew of the proper pronunciation of the Canadian intelligence agency, CSIS, which is not sea-ess-EYE-ess, but SEA-siss.
The book itself, however, is a complex cold war/political thriller, and was thoroughly enjoyable.
Laurent ripped, and ripped, and tore. Until a shaft of sunlight penetrated the overgrowth, the undergrowth, and he saw what was in there. What had been hiding in there longer than Laurent had been alive.
His eyes widened.
“Wow.”
Louise Penny, The Nature of the Beast
Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesn’t cry wolf. From alien invasions, to walking trees, to winged beasts in the woods, to dinosaurs spotted in the village of Three Pines, his tales are so extraordinary no one can possibly believe him. Including Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache, who now live in the little Quebec village.
But when the boy disappears, the villagers are faced with the possibility that one of his tall tales might have been true.
And so begins a frantic search for the boy and the truth. What they uncover deep in the forest sets off a sequence of events that leads to murder, leads to an old crime, leads to an old betrayal. Leads right to the door of an old poet.
And now it is now, writes Ruth Zardo. And the dark thing is here.
A monster once visited Three Pines. And put down deep roots. And now, Ruth knows, it is back.
Armand Gamache, the former head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec, must face the possibility that, in not believing the boy, he himself played a terrible part in what happens next.
June 3, 2016
Fundraiser for Avenue 15 Youth Shelter
I stopped by the Boys and Girls Club of Calgary today to give them a cheque for the money raised in my recent fundraiser (thank you for all of those who participated!) and to tour their main office.
The Boys and Girls Club started as Boys Town in 1944 and operates out of the original Calgary Airport build in 1929. Quite a history! I had a great visit and I was so glad that I chose their Avenue 15 shelter to raise funds for, and felt good about handing over a cheque and a few copies of my books: Questing for a Dream, Tattooed Teardrops, and Don’t Forget Steven.
Thank you again for donating!
May 31, 2016
Excerpt from The Singing Bone
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules at Books and a Beat. Anyone can play along!
Psychological thrillers two weeks in a row. This one is a little different from As Night Falls last week. The Singing Bone by Beth Hahn is a retrospective by the main character to her involvement with a cult murder twenty years before. A fascinating look at a Manson family style scenario and the psychology behind it. Be prepared for mature themes and language.
Alice liked “Alice-Alice” better than “head” or “freak”—which is what kids at school called her. She pretended not to care. She’d stopped talking to them ages ago. And her grades were high; people thought of her as “smart”—or that’s what she heard from Molly and Trina. The smart one. Really? Alice didn’t think she was so smart.
Beth Hahn, The Singing Bone
A convicted killer’s imminent parole forces a woman to confront the nightmarish past she’s spent twenty years escaping.
I found you. That’s what Mr. Wyck told her: I found you.
1979: Seventeen-year-old Alice Pearson can’t wait to graduate from high school so she can escape the small town in upstate New York where she grew up. In the meantime, she and her friends avoid their dysfunctional families while getting high in the woods. There they meet the enigmatic Jack Wyck, who lives in the rambling old farmhouse across the reservoir. Enticed by his quasi-mystical philosophy and the promise of a constant party, Alice and her friends join Mr. Wyck’s small group of devoted followers. But their heady, freewheeling idyll takes an increasingly sinister turn, as Alice finds herself crossing moral and emotional boundaries that erode her hold on reality. When Mr. Wyck’s grand scheme goes wrong, culminating in a night of horrific violence, Alice is barely able to find her way back to sanity.
Twenty years later, Alice Wood has created a quiet life for herself as a professor of folklore, but an acclaimed filmmaker threatens to expose her past with a documentary about Jack Wyck’s crimes and the cult-like following he continues to attract from his prison cell. Wyck has never forgiven Alice for testifying against him, and as he plots to overturn his conviction and regain his freedom, she is forced to confront the truth about what happened to her in the farmhouse—and her complicity in the evil around her.
May 27, 2016
Reviews by Randy
My sweet hubby has posted a couple more reviews of my books on his blog…
Warning: beware of spoilers!
By-Pass, Breaking the Pattern #3
When you have been in foster homes your whole short life, you become, well, kind of guarded. Then you come to a new home that looks like a garden of Eden with a perfect family. You finally begin to think your life is turning around. Has Bobby finally hit the jackpot? Or are looks deceiving?
Bobby is placed in a new home again and forced to meet new friends. At least he has a wonderful mother in Katya and little sister who adores him in Zane.
Katya looks like the mother that any boy would love to have. A home to live for, and all the food that could want. For the first time, he has a room all to himself. And a sister that he grows to love.
When Katya starts turning crazy, she turns his life upside down. All of a sudden, Bobby has to make decisions that a geeky teen should never have to make. When Katya starts questioning everything he does, it all of a sudden becomes too real. He has to start thinking of his himself, and for the first time in his life, he has to look out for a sibling.
Gracie and her parents Peter and Sandy turn out to be real friends. But Gracie lets slip Katya’s history. Can he trust Gracie, or is she a busybody who spend too much time putting her nose in where it is not wanted?
Every decision Bobby makes affects him and Zane. What is he going to do? When it comes down to it, will he report Katya? Will he decide to put up with an inconvenience to keep all the good stuff? But that inconvenience has turned into Hurricane Katya, who is out to destroy everything in her path. And that path heads right toward Zane and Bobby. What can Bobby do to save Zane? Will he be able to be strong enough to do the right thing? Will he risk losing his family, the mother, and sister that he always wanted?
By-Pass is a terrific, horrifying story that could be too real for many foster kids. Bobby will pull you in, and he will tear your heart out. He will bring you in with his boyish charm, and keep you there with his bravery.
A terrific novel that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Intersexion
Being rejected by your family is bad enough, but not knowing if you’re a girl makes it that much worse. Taylor finds himself, or herself, getting dropped off at a shelter. Scared and alone, Taylor has no idea what is going to happen next.
At the shelter, Taylor meets a counselor named Roz, a Christian wife and mother who has some problems of her own. She is overwhelmed; how is she suppose to help a child when she can’t even help her own kids?
Read this inspiring story about a Christian who can accept a child who people thought was a boy, then a girl.
Watch Taylor as he struggles for the acceptance of Razor and the other teens. Watch as Roz struggles to touch and connect with Taylor.
Can Roz help Taylor learn to love and forgive her parents? Can Roz love her kids despite the decisions they have made? Does she have the strength to help them come to grips with all that has happened?
As a parent, you will feel for Roz. Can Roz overcome the doubts she has a mother? We have all been there, wondering what we did wrong. As a parent, you will applaud her and be angry at Taylor parents. How could they treat their own child the way they did?
A riveting book that pulls you in and has you crying for Taylor’s trials and celebrating every achievement.
Thanks, sweetie, for the kind words!
May 25, 2016
All foreign language translations free on Kindle!
If you are not a native English reader, you may be interested in one of my foreign language translations, all of which are free on Kindle May 25-29.
May 24, 2016
Excerpt from As Night Falls
I am currently running a fundraising campaign for Avenue 15, a local youth shelter run by the Boys and Girls Club. I am getting a good number of clicks, but sadly not much by way of donations. If you want to help give homeless kids a place to sleep, don’t assume that someone else will; please donate!
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules at Books and a Beat. Anyone can play along!
My read this week is As Night Falls by Jenny Milchman. It is a psychological thriller, well done, with a couple of surprise twists. Good tension and well-developed characters. If you’re up for a hostage situation in an isolated house in the middle of a snowstorm, this one is for you!
But the charge Ivy had hurled was absurd. Sandy had treasured her daughter from the moment she was born, and worked hard to weave closeness between the two of them. She’d never lied to Ivy—not even taking advantage of the shortcuts all parents used: substituting a maybe when the answer was clearly no way, or promising that the goldfish was going to live.
Jenny Milchman, As Night Falls
Sandy Tremont has always tried to give her family everything. But, as the sky darkens over the Adirondacks and a heavy snowfall looms, an escaped murderer with the power to take it all away draws close.
In her isolated home in the shadowy woods, Sandy prepares dinner after a fight with her daughter, Ivy. Upstairs, the fifteen-year-old—smart, brave, and with every reason to be angry tonight—keeps her distance from her mother. Sandy’s husband, Ben, a wilderness guide, arrives late to find a home simmering with unease.
Nearby, two desperate men on the run make their way through the fading light, bloodstained and determined to leave no loose ends or witnesses. After almost twenty years as prison cellmates, they have become a deadly team: Harlan the muscle, Nick the mind and will. As they approach a secluded house and look through its windows to see a cozy domestic scene, Nick knows that here he will find what he’s looking for . . . before he disappears forever.
May 21, 2016
Help homeless teens and get a free Kindle book
How would you like to help homeless kids in Calgary and get a free Kindle* copy of Questing for a Dream?
I am running a donation campaign for the youth shelter Avenue 15, run by the Boys and Girls Club of Calgary. This is not sponsored or endorsed by the Boys and Girls Club, it is just me, picking out a shelter that I know helps teens like Nadie in Questing for a Dream, who are homeless or out on the street in Calgary. Avenue 15 is a well-established shelter that has been around since before I was a teenager. Here is a video about them.
Here’s how my fundraiser works:
Send me your donation (you choose how much) through PayPal by clicking the button below.
Your email address will be added to my email mailing list (you will be notified of new releases, promotions, etc.)
The first twenty donors will be gifted a free Kindle copy of Questing for a Dream
I will send 100% of the donations to The Boys and Girls Club of Calgary
*A Kindle is not required to read this book. You can download the Kindle App onto your phone, tablet, computer, or use the Cloud Reader in your browser.
