Angela Wren

on tour

September 4-15, 2017

Merle

(mystery)

 Release date: July 5, 2017
at Crooked Cat Publishing

208  pages

ISBN: 978-1546811985

Website | Goodreads

SYNOPSIS

Jacques Forêt, a former gendarme turned investigator, delves into the murky world of commercial sabotage – a place where people lie and misrepresent, and where information is traded and used as a threat.
The Vaux organisation is losing contracts and money, and Jacques is asked to undertake an internal investigation. As he works through the complexity of all the evidence, he finds more than he bargained for, and his own life is threatened.
When a body of a woman is found, it appears to be suicide. But as the investigation takes another turn, Jacques suspects there is more to it.
Who is behind it all…and why? Will Jacques find the answer before another person ends up dead?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 Angela Wren
I’m an actor and director at a small theatre
a few miles from where I live in Yorkshire in the UK.
I did work as a project and business change manager
– very pressured and very demanding –
but I managed to escape and now I write books.
I’ve always loved stories and story telling
so it seemed a natural progression, to me, to try my hand at writing.
My first published story was in an anthology,
which was put together by the magazine ‘Ireland’s Own’ and published in 2011.
I particularly enjoy the challenge of plotting and planning different genres of work.
My short stories vary between contemporary romance, memoir, mystery and historical.
I also write comic flash-fiction
and have drafted two one-act plays that have been recorded for local radio.
My full-length stories are set in France where I like to spend as much time as possible each year.

Visit her website and her blog. Follow her on Facebook, Twitter

Buy the book  on Amazon

   

VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR QUOTATIONS

Shelf Rider

Packed with continuing complications to intensify the final unraveling, Merle is a thrilling read about authority, corruption, and the power of secrets to deprave a genial French town.

Locks, Hooks and Books

I love the beautiful French setting. Jacques Forêt is a fun investigator and a likable character.
I was intrigued and had a hard time putting the book down.
I most definitely believe this book to be a must read.
I have become a new fan of Angela Wren’s work.

Musings of a Writer & Unabashed Francophile

I was intrigued. Who was behind the sabotage? There are so many possibilities, so many people with motive and desire.
It is good, and worth reading if you like mysteries, particularly the corporate espionage types.

The French Village Diaries

There was a lot to love about this book, including strong characters, location and good plot twists.

Book-Stuffed

The atmosphere of a small French town is amazingly detailed.
All the characters in the book are extremely well described.
A great book. Looking forward to #3.

Words And Peace

Suspenseful and intriguing events in a picturesque corner of France.

Lizanne Lost in a Good Book

The intriguing murder mystery builds up to a thrilling conclusion.

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After
Messandrierre,

Angela Wren

is back for the second book in the series!

on tour

September 4-15, 2017

Merle

(mystery)

 Release date: July 5, 2017
at Crooked Cat Publishing

208  pages

ISBN: 978-1546811985

Website | Goodreads

SYNOPSIS

Jacques Forêt, a former gendarme turned investigator, delves into the murky world of commercial sabotage – a place where people lie and misrepresent, and where information is traded and used as a threat.
The Vaux organisation is losing contracts and money, and Jacques is asked to undertake an internal investigation. As he works through the complexity of all the evidence, he finds more than he bargained for, and his own life is threatened.
When a body of a woman is found, it appears to be suicide. But as the investigation takes another turn, Jacques suspects there is more to it.
Who is behind it all…and why? Will Jacques find the answer before another person ends up dead?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 Angela Wren
I’m an actor and director at a small theatre
a few miles from where I live in Yorkshire in the UK.
I did work as a project and business change manager
– very pressured and very demanding –
but I managed to escape and now I write books.
I’ve always loved stories and story telling
so it seemed a natural progression, to me, to try my hand at writing.
My first published story was in an anthology,
which was put together by the magazine ‘Ireland’s Own’ and published in 2011.
I particularly enjoy the challenge of plotting and planning different genres of work.
My short stories vary between contemporary romance, memoir, mystery and historical.
I also write comic flash-fiction
and have drafted two one-act plays that have been recorded for local radio.
My full-length stories are set in France where I like to spend as much time as possible each year.

Visit her website and her blog. Follow her on Facebook, Twitter

Buy the book  on Amazon

   

VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE

Monday, September 4
Review + Excerpt + Giveaway at Locks, Hooks and Books

Tuesday, September 5
Review at Shelf Rider

Thursday, September 7
Review + Giveaway at Words And Peace

Monday, September 11
Review + Excerpt + Giveaway at
Musings of a Writer & Unabashed Francophile

Tuesday, September 12
Review + Giveaway at Lizanne Lost in a Good Book

  Wednesday, September 13
Review + Giveaway at The French Village Diaries

Spotlight + Giveaway at Writing Wings
and review of Messandrierre, 1st book in the series

Friday, September 15
 Review + Giveaway at  Book-Stuffed

Interview at The French Village Diaries

You can enter the global giveaway here
or on any other book blogs participating in this tour.
Be sure to follow each participant on Twitter/Facebook,
they are listed in the entry form below.

Enter here

Visit each blogger on the tour:
tweeting about the giveaway everyday
of the Tour will give you 5 extra entries each time!
[just follow the directions on the entry-form]

Global giveaway open to all
5 winners

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won a copy of

The City of Blood

[police procedural / thriller]

(translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman)

 Release date: January 20, 2015
at Le French Book

212 pages

ISBN: 978-1939474186

Website | Goodreads

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SYNOPSIS

When a major Parisian modern art event gets unexpected attention on live TV, Chief of Police Nico Sirsky and his team of elite crime fighters rush to La Villette park and museum complex. There, renowned artist Samuel Cassian is inaugurating the first archeological dig of modern art, twenty-seven years after burying the leftovers of a banquet. In front of reporters from around the world, excavators uncover a skeleton. Could it be the artist’s own son? And does that death have anything to do with the current string of nightclub murders by the “Paris Butcher”? On the site of the French capital’s former slaughterhouses, the investigation takes Nico and France’s top criminal investigation division from artists’ studios to autopsy theaters and nightclubs in hopes of tracking down the murderer who has turned this Paris park into a city of blood. [provided by the publisher]

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Called, “the French Michael Connelly,” Frédérique Molay graduated from France’s prestigious Science Po
and began her career in politics and the French administration.
She worked as chief of staff for the deputy mayor of Saint-Germain-en-Laye,
and then was elected to the local government in Saône-et-Loire.
Meanwhile, she spent her nights pursing a passion for writing she had nourished since she wrote her first novel at the age of eleven.
The first in the Paris Homicide series, The 7th Woman,
won France’s most prestigious crime fiction award and went on to become an international bestseller,
allowing Molay to dedicate her life to writing and raising her three children.

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