Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Catherine L. from Durham, NC won Murder at the White Palace. Carol W. of Round Rock, TX will receive The Burning. The books have been mailed.
This week, I’m giving away two mysteries set in the U.K. We talked about both series yesterday on the blog. A Dream of Death is the first book in Connie Berry’s Kate Hamilton series. On a remote island in Scotland, an American antiques dealer a brutal killing staged to recreate a centuries-old unsolved murder. Autumn has come and gone on Scotland’s Isle of Glenroth, and the islanders gather for the Tartan Ball, the annual end-of-tourist-season gala. Spirits are high until an unexpected turn of events takes the floor. A recently published novel about island history has brought hordes of tourists to the small Hebridean resort community. On the guest list is American antiques dealer Kate Hamilton. Kate returns reluctantly to the island where her husband died, determined to repair her relationship with his sister, proprietor of the island’s luxe country house hotel, famous for its connection with Bonnie Prince Charlie. Kate has hardly unpacked when the next morning a body is found, murdered in a reenactment of an infamous unsolved murder described in the novel—and the only clue to the killer’s identity lies in a curiously embellished antique casket. The Scottish police discount the historical connection, but when a much-loved local handyman is arrested, Kate teams up with a vacationing detective inspector from Suffolk, England, to unmask a killer determined to rewrite island history—and Kate’s future.
All the Rage is in the DI Adam Fawley series. After being abducted and assaulted, a teenage girl somehow managed to escape from her captor. She is traumatized and needs to heal, but the police need her help to catch her assailant—information she clearly knows, but is unwilling to give. Without the girl’s assistance, DI Adam Fawley’s investigation is at a dead end. When another girl vanishes under the same circumstances, he recognizes a disturbing pattern—and a link to something long buried in his past. . .
Which book would you like to read? You can enter to win both books, but I need separate entries. Email me at Lesa.Holstine@gmail.com. Your subject line should read either “Win A Dream of Death” or “Win All the Rage.” Please include your name and mailing address. The contest will end Wednesday, August 14 at 5 PM CT. Entries from the U.S. only, please.
