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‘The Widow,’ A conversation with Fiona Barton

February 16, 2016 by Mark Rubinstein Leave a Comment

Fiona Barton-photoFiona Barton is a British journalist who, while working for the Sunday Mail and the Daily Telegraph, spent a great deal of time in court covering trials. This exposure provided the creative spark for Fiona’s debut novel.

The Widow focuses on three people: Jean Taylor, the wife of the prime suspect in a criminal case; Kate Waters, a journalist who is part of the media circus camping out at Jean’s front door; and Bob Sparkes, a detective working the case. A child has gone missing, and Glen Taylor, Jean’s husband, becomes the primary suspect in what appears to be an abduction.

The search for the truth—both in the past and in the present—takes shape through the interlocking narratives of these three characters. Each one tells a story, but some may be more truthful than others.

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‘Black Rabbit Hall,’ A Conversation with Eve Chase

February 11, 2016 by Mark Rubinstein Leave a Comment

Eve Chase (c) Clare Borg-CookEve Chase has worked as an editor and feature writer for various magazines in the UK.

Black Rabbit Hall, her debut novel, is the story of two women, born three decades apart: fourteen-year-old Amber Alton and thirty-two-year-old Lorna Dunaway. Each has a connection to Black Rabbit Hall, a stately manor house in Cornwall.

Amber spent endless summers at Black Rabbit Hall until an accident changed her family’s lives. Decades later, Loran feels the manor will make a perfect venue for her upcoming wedding, despite its crumbling stone walls and need for repairs. She cannot explain Black Rabbit Hall’s pull on her, but her instincts lead her into the manor’s labyrinthine history and the ghosts of her own past, including Alton-family secrets that have been buried for decades.

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‘Broken Promise,’ A Conversation with Linwood Barclay

August 6, 2015 by Mark Rubinstein Leave a Comment

Linwood Barclay credit Bill Taylor (2)Linwood Barclay’s thrillers have been international bestsellers. Trust Your Eyes, an intriguing novel with a unique premise, has been optioned for film.  The Associated Press said, “Linwood Barclay has established himself alongside the masters of suburban fiction.”

In just-released Broken Promise, unemployed journalist David Harwood, grieving his wife’s untimely death, moves with his young son back to his parents’ home in Promise Falls, New York. One morning, David visits his cousin Marla, who has been acting strangely since having lost her baby during childbirth a year ago. Shockingly, David discovers Marla holding a 10 month-old baby boy who Marla says is her son. David begins investigating the child’s true identity; nothing is really as it seems, and Marla’s mysterious child is merely the tip of the iceberg.

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Field of Prey: A Talk with John Sandford

May 5, 2014 by Mark Rubinstein Leave a Comment

2014-05-04-JohnSandfordDavidBurnett-thumbWe know him as John Sandford, but that’s his nom de plume. As journalist John Camp, he won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for his five-part series about an American farm family faced with an agricultural crisis. He eventually turned to writing thriller novels, and his twenty-fourth Prey novel, Field of Prey, featuring Lucas Davenport, will be available everywhere on May 5th, 2014. Lucas and his team must use all possible resources to try capturing an elusive killer or killers who claim at least twenty victims over a course of years.

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