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The Frenchman: tour quotations

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Lise McClendon

on Tour

September 8-21

with

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The Frenchman

(mystery)

 Release date: September 8, 2017
at Thalia Press

 278 pages

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SYNOPSIS

In this 5th installment of the Bennett Sisters Mysteries (beginning with Blackbird Fly), attorney Merle Bennett goes to France for an extended stay to drink in the essence of ‘la France Profonde’ and write her own novel.
But the countryside is not as tranquil as she hoped. A missing Frenchman, a sinister one, an elderly one, a thieving one, and a vandalizing one: all conspire to turn Merle’s sojourn of reflection into a nightmare of worry. Where is Pascal, her French boyfriend? Who is the man with the terrible scar? Why is someone spray-painting her little stone house in the Dordogne? And will her novel about the French Revolution – snippets of which are included – give her a soupçon of delight or a frisson of danger?
Works fine as a stand-alone
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Lise McClendon
is the author of fifteen novels of mystery, suspense,
and general mayhem plus short stories.
Her bestselling Bennett Sisters mystery series
began with ‘Blackbird Fly.’
She also writes thrillers as Rory Tate,
the latest of which is ‘PLAN X.’
Her short story is included in this fall’s noir anthology, ‘The Obama Inheritance.’
She lives in Montana.
Visit her website
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Buy the book: on Amazon

VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR QUOTATIONS

Shelf Rider

The Frenchman is as much a mystery novel as it is an exploration into the personal life of an author.
The Frenchman is a delightful stroll through a grove of mystery, with a woven path through a light French countenance that makes for a formidable leisure read.

The French Village Diaries

I started this book, it just got better and better.
We get a look behind the scenes of some of the best known wine areas in France.
This is a great mystery, set among the vineyards of France and pretty golden coloured villages of the Dordogne, perfect for a late summer getaway

Words And Peace

Wonderful mix of mystery and historical fiction in a picturesque French setting, with its charms and dangers.

Books Are Cool

It’s an absorbing story. It doesn’t give a twee, rose-coloured view of life in France, such as appears rather too frequently in cozies and chick lit, but presents it warts and all.
It’s all very human and convincing.

Reading To Unwind

I loved the author writing style.
The book is told from multiple POV’s which I really enjoyed. I love in a mystery when you can see different parts of the story all come together.
I liked that the series does follow a set of sisters and after reading this book I am intrigued to read the rest.

An Accidental Blog

This book was a pleasant escape with some mystery thrown in to the second half. Definitely worth a read.

Locks, Hooks and Books

I found The Frenchman to be a delightful, intriguing, and fun story.
It was quite interesting at how it all ended.
In my opinion, it is one other readers should add to their wish list. I look forward to more of this series and more books by Lise McClendon in the future.”

Denise

I enjoyed the mystery part of the story. The author brings to life the countryside of France.

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The Frenchman: release day today

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Today is the

release day of

Frenchman-ebook-cover

The Frenchman

(mystery)

 Release date: September 8, 2017
at Thalia Press

 278 pages

 

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SYNOPSIS

In this 5th installment of the Bennett Sisters Mysteries (beginning with Blackbird Fly), attorney Merle Bennett goes to France for an extended stay to drink in the essence of ‘la France Profonde’ and write her own novel.
But the countryside is not as tranquil as she hoped. A missing Frenchman, a sinister one, an elderly one, a thieving one, and a vandalizing one: all conspire to turn Merle’s sojourn of reflection into a nightmare of worry. Where is Pascal, her French boyfriend? Who is the man with the terrible scar? Why is someone spray-painting her little stone house in the Dordogne? And will her novel about the French Revolution – snippets of which are included – give her a soupçon of delight or a frisson of danger?
Works fine as a stand-alone

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That Spring in Paris: tour winners

We have winners!

That Spring in Paris winnerCathy
Meredith

won an ecopy of

That Spring in Paris

That Spring in Paris

(women’s fiction / romance)

 Release date: May 25, 2017
at Lion’s Paw Publishing

ISBN: 978-0988940871
ebook: 978-0988940864
468 pages

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SYNOPSIS

Two Americans literally collide at the entrance to a Paris hospital, each desperately searching for friends felled in the same unspeakable tragedy.
Patrick Finley Deschanel, an expatriate former U.S. Air Force pilot, quit the military after a career flying helicopter rescue missions in the Middle East. Now resident on a classic barge moored on the Seine, Finn is a man with both physical battle scars and psychic wounds that overshadow his day-to-day encounters at every turn.
Juliet Thayer is a fledgling landscape painter who seeks escape from a tyrannical older brother and her job at his violent video war games company in San Francisco. Her emergency trip to Paris also raises doubts as to her impending engagement to a colleague where she serves as packaging design director and “Chief Branding Officer” of GatherGames, a highly speculative enterprise in which her parents are heavily invested.
As Finn and Juliet form a tenuous attachment in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks that traumatized the French capital November 13, 2015, they wonder if the “City of Light” can provide a path out of the darkness for two emotional exiles who fear–along with the world at large—that their universe has descended into a permanent state of chaos and that the renewal of spring might never come.
New York Times bestselling novelist and Emmy-award winning news producer Ciji Ware displays her formidable skill at weaving fact and fiction–delivering a gripping story about the discovery of love and regained serenity in the wake of horrifying events.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

That Spring in Paris - Ciji WareCiji Ware,
a graduate of Harvard University in History,
is a New York Times & USA Today bestselling author
of historical and contemporary fiction,
and two works of nonfiction.
An Emmy-award winning
former radio and TV broadcaster for 23 years in Los Angeles,
her numerous writing accolades include a Dorothy Parker Award of excellence,
and being short-listed for the Willa [Cather] Literary Award.
Her family circle includes a husband of many decades,
a grown son and daughter-in-law, and now two grandsons under four,
along with a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel named Cholly Knickerbocker.
Ware lives in a cottage by the sea on San Francisco Bay.

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