SILENCED: 5 Fun Facts with Allison Brennan
Overwhelming fact: Romantic thriller readers adore Allison Brennan. There’s a reason she’s a New York Times and USA Today bestselling novelist. Just check out the excerpt below from SILENCED, Book 5 in Allison’d Lucy Kincaid series. You’ll get shivers reading it! The killer’s banal approach to murder is simply stunning in its evil.
The irony is that the author of these compelling, suspenseful, downright scary novels is one of the nicest, most generous authors I know. Allison is also extremely down-to-earth. Somehow she manages her big career–three books a year!–while being mom to five children.
Wow. Just wow.
I hope you’ll join me in welcoming Allison to the blog. It’s a real honor for me to have her here. Her Five Fun Facts are truly fun (I also loved the sixth one she threw in). And it’s always a wonderful pleasure to see all of you, my reader friends, support my visiting authors in the comments. I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving, and remember that if you leave a comment, you just might win a signed copy of SILENCED!
SILENCED
Lucy Kincaid series
Book #5
St. Martin’s Press
April 24, 2012
A WASHINGTON SEX SCANDAL
It has been seven years since Lucy was attacked—and almost killed—by an online predator. Today, she is well on her way toward a new life. While waiting to begin her training at the FBI Academy, Lucy’s is tireless in her fight against cyber sex crime. Her current mission: to find out who killed a high-priced call girl linked to a powerful Congressman.
A COLD-BLOODED KILLER
A number of known prostitutes—with scores of high profile clients—are turning up dead all over D.C. Is this the work of a depraved killer? Or the result of an inside job? Lucy’s investigation will take her into an underground network of prostitutes, the chambers of the country’s most powerful players, and her own dark past to confront an unknown enemy who’s always one step ahead of her. With the help of her P.I. boyfriend Sean Rogan, Lucy must find and protect the only witness who can identify the killer and end the conspiracy, but can the witness be trusted? Lucy will risk everything to expose the truth and ensure justice is served, even if that means putting herself in the line of fire.
5 Fun Facts About SILENCED:
1. Writing the book nearly killed me–first book for a new publisher and new editor after 17 books with the same editor. But I poured my suffering into a blog post that yielded me the highest number of comments and hits ever.
2. In the middle of writing SILENCED, I participated in an FBI-SWAT training exercise on hostage rescue and used part of what I learned in writing two of the scenes.
photo credit: Allison Brennan
3. One of the characters, Cathy Hummel, is named after a woman who won the right to have her name in my book through an American Heart Association fundraiser. And small world–she’s also the wife of my mailman!
4. I didn’t know how SILENCED was going to end when I turned in the first draft to my editor. I wrote a bland two-page summary of how I THOUGHT it would end, but knew that it wouldn’t work. After her notes, I wrote a completely new ending.
5. The first victim SILENCED has an orange and white cat. Lucy takes him home with her, and I planned to name him Nemo after my own orange and white cat. But Sean named him Chip–and you’ll have to read the book to find out why 
photo credit: Allison Brennan
And one more “fun fact” that doesn’t relate to SILENCED, but does relate to my hostess … when I was a teenager, I LOVED the name Kieran. I don’t know where I read it or heard about it, but every book I started to write had a protagonist named Kieran. Hmmm … I might have to write a new character and bring back my old favorite name!
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Allison Brennan is the New York Times bestselling author of 19 romantic thrillers. The fifth book in the Lucy Kincaid series, STALKED, is currently available wherever books are sold. She has a self-published romantic suspense novella, MURDER IN THE RIVER CITY, also available.For more information about her or her books, check out her website allisonbrennan.com
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