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Barbara Pronin

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Barbara Pronin, whose work has been praised by best-selling authors Mary Higgins Clark and Tony Hillerman, and Faye Kellerman, s the author of eight mysteries, including three as Barbara Nickolae, and a WW II novel, Winter's End, which won the 2025 Gold Medal for Best Adult Novel (IPPY Award) from the Independent Publishers Book Awards. A former actress, probation officer, journalist and substitute teacher, she is a fan of dark chocolate, the Dodgers, Greek sunsets and African elephants. When she isn't writing, which isn't often, she can probably be found struggling painfully at the piano. ...more

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Barbara Pronin I would go back to Amsterdam, the setting for my new WW II historical novel, Winter's End, due out in May, 2025. I have been there twice, and I love t…moreI would go back to Amsterdam, the setting for my new WW II historical novel, Winter's End, due out in May, 2025. I have been there twice, and I love the color and the cobblestoned streets. But in my mind's eye, as I wrote the book, I tried to picture it during the Nazi occupation and the Hunger Winter of 1944, as it would have been seen by the three amazing heroines of the Dutch Resistance who moved into my head and refused to leave until I told their stories.(less)
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After the huge and heartwarming success of Winter's End, which so far has won three gold medals and earned more than 1,000 Amazon reviews, I am so excited to announce that A Moon at the End of the World, the second of my World War II trilogy, will be published in September 2026. Inspired by the birth of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (the WAACS) in May,1942, and set in part among the exotic baza Read more of this blog post »
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