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Chronicles of Shawn Donnelly #1
It's All Smoke and Mirrors
Shawn Donnelly can't even go on a little weekend getaway with her old college chums without running into a corpse or two - and don't even ask about her new co-worker who seems to have an entirely unnatural interest in the serial killer recently running rampant in the Detroit metro area.
277 pages, Paperback
First published October 22, 2007
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About the author
Therese Szymanski
23 books16 followersTherese (Reese) Szymanski is an award-winning playwright who has been short-listed for a few Lammies, a few Goldies and a Spectrum, and made the Publishing Triangle’s list of Notable Lesbian Books in 2004 and was chosen for an Alice B. Reader’s Appreciation Award for 2008.
She’s written eight Brett Higgins Motor City Thrillers (When the Dancing Stops, When the Dead Speak, When Some Body Disappears, When Evil Changes Face, When the Corpse Lies, When First We Practice and When It’s All Relative); one Shawn Donnelly book, It’s All Smoke & Mirrors: The First Chronicles of Shawn Donnelly; and edited the erotic anthologies Back to Basics, Call of the Dark, Wild Nights, Fantasy and A Perfect Valentine. She has novellas in Once Upon a Dyke; Stake through the Heart; Bell, Book and Dyke and Tall in the Saddle and has a few dozen published short stories and essays.
She’s a seasoned writer with two decades’ experience writing for nonprofit, advertising, marketing and journalistic purposes. A second-generation American, she comes from Detroit, lives in D.C., and hopes to move in with her girlfriend, Stacia, soon. Her books can be found for purchase at BellaBooks.com, Amazon.com and all sorts of other places in both the cyber and real worlds.
She occasionally teaches classes, though it's been quite a while since they've been at the college level. She's much more likely these days to be found at festivals and book signings. Well, and online.
http://www.bigbadbutch.com/Bio.html
She’s written eight Brett Higgins Motor City Thrillers (When the Dancing Stops, When the Dead Speak, When Some Body Disappears, When Evil Changes Face, When the Corpse Lies, When First We Practice and When It’s All Relative); one Shawn Donnelly book, It’s All Smoke & Mirrors: The First Chronicles of Shawn Donnelly; and edited the erotic anthologies Back to Basics, Call of the Dark, Wild Nights, Fantasy and A Perfect Valentine. She has novellas in Once Upon a Dyke; Stake through the Heart; Bell, Book and Dyke and Tall in the Saddle and has a few dozen published short stories and essays.
She’s a seasoned writer with two decades’ experience writing for nonprofit, advertising, marketing and journalistic purposes. A second-generation American, she comes from Detroit, lives in D.C., and hopes to move in with her girlfriend, Stacia, soon. Her books can be found for purchase at BellaBooks.com, Amazon.com and all sorts of other places in both the cyber and real worlds.
She occasionally teaches classes, though it's been quite a while since they've been at the college level. She's much more likely these days to be found at festivals and book signings. Well, and online.
http://www.bigbadbutch.com/Bio.html
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May 31, 2012
Ok this might be a spoiler for some so don't say I didn't warn you:
There are three things I had a problem with in this book:
1. The ending left me wanting a lot MORE! hint hint hint Ms. Szymanski
2. While the story lines were very interesting there just wasn't enough time to develop the characters properly
and
3. She drinks pepsi instead of coke and worse yet its DIET!!
Other than that the book was great. The different "acts" of the book were interesting and really drew me in. The characters were exciting and I really wanted to know more about them, what their back stories were and how they stayed friends all these years. Sexy, mind boggling, mysterious, impish, and fun... can't wait for the next chronicles....
There are three things I had a problem with in this book:
1. The ending left me wanting a lot MORE! hint hint hint Ms. Szymanski
2. While the story lines were very interesting there just wasn't enough time to develop the characters properly
and
3. She drinks pepsi instead of coke and worse yet its DIET!!
Other than that the book was great. The different "acts" of the book were interesting and really drew me in. The characters were exciting and I really wanted to know more about them, what their back stories were and how they stayed friends all these years. Sexy, mind boggling, mysterious, impish, and fun... can't wait for the next chronicles....
Displaying 1 of 1 review