Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Behind the Lies will go to Wendy A. from Ferndale, WA. Dianne C. from Elk Grove Village, IL won The Lying Club. The books will go out in the mail on Saturday.
This week, I’m giving away blue books. Rhys Bowen wrote the latest Molly Murphy Mystery, Wild Irish Rose, with her daughter Clare Broyles. According to Rhys, the idea came from her daughter. New York, 1907: Now that she’s no longer a private detective―at least not officially―Molly Murphy Sullivan is looking forward to a time of settled tranquility with friends and family. Back in New York, where her own story began, Molly decides to accompany some friends to Ellis Island to help distribute clothing to those in need. This journey quickly stirs up memories for Molly. When you’re far from home and see people from your country, every face looks like a family member. That evening Molly’s policeman husband, Daniel, is late returning home. He comes with a tale to tell: there was a murder on Ellis Island that day, and the main suspect is the spitting image of Molly. The circumstances are eerily similar to when Molly herself arrived on Ellis Island, and she can’t help but feel a sense of fate. Molly was meant to be there that day so that she can clear this woman’s name.
Or you could win Erica Ferencik’s Girl in Ice. From the author of The River at Night and Into the Jungle comes a harrowing new thriller set in the unforgiving landscape of the Arctic Circle, as a brilliant linguist struggling to understand the apparent suicide of her twin brother ventures hundreds of miles north to try to communicate with a young girl who has been thawed from the ice alive. Valerie “Val” Chesterfield is a linguist trained in the most esoteric of disciplines: dead Nordic languages. Despite her successful career, she leads a sheltered life and languishes in the shadow of her twin brother, Andy, an accomplished climate scientist stationed on a remote island off Greenland’s barren coast. But Andy is gone: a victim of suicide, having willfully ventured unprotected into 50 degree below zero weather. Val is inconsolable—and disbelieving. She suspects foul play.
Which book would you like to win? You can enter to win both, but I need separate entries. Email me at Lesa.Holstine@gmail.com. Your subject line should read either “Win Wild Irish Rose” or “Win Girl in Ice.” Please include your name and mailing address. Entries from the U.S. only, please. The giveaway will end Thursday, April 14 at 5 PM CT.
