BOOKS BY MY FRIENDS
LIZ ALTERMAN, LIZ ARNOLD, BARBARA JEAN MILLER, LYNN SLAUGHTER & GERRY WILSON
Thursday, 27 February 2025
Welcome to Books By My Friends! Today we are featuring
LIZ ALTERMAN
LIZ ARNOLD
BARBARA JEAN MILLER
LYNN SLAUGHTER
GERRY WILSON
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BOOK: The House on Cold Creek Lane (hardcover, the paperback comes out April 29)
AUTHOR: Liz Alterman
GENRE: Suspense
BLURB: An unflinching examination of motherhood and the dark side of domesticity set against a suburban backdrop that's anything but blissful. This twisty tale invites readers to a slow motion unravelling that culminates in a devastating finale!
Who was I? What had I become?
Breathe, I commanded. You're doing this for your family.
When Laurel and Rob West move into their new home in New Jersey, it seems too good to be true. But Laurel can't shake off her old feelings of anxiety. The neighbor who pays far too much attention to the Wests' two young children . . . Rob watching her every misstep . . . and there's something people aren't telling her about this house
I promised myself I wouldn't go to that neighborhood again. Not that street. Not so soon.
But I couldn't help it. They made it too easy.
Corey Sutton is trying to outrun her past. Recently divorced and reeling from a devastating loss, she moves into her widowed mother's retirement condo in Florida. Everyone says she just needs some time to recover and rebuild . . . but is Corey beyond saving? She wants answers. And there's very little she won't do to get them.
Though Laurel and Corey have never met, the women have something in common, and if they're not careful, it may just destroy them both . . .
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Liz Alterman is the author of the memoir Sad Sacked, the young adult thriller He’ll Be Waiting, a finalist for the Dante Rossetti Young Adult Fiction award, and the domestic suspense novels The Perfect Neighborhood and The House on Cold Creek Lane. Her work has been published by The New York Times, The Washington Post, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and numerous other outlets. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, three sons, and two cats, and spends most days microwaving the same cup of coffee and looking up synonyms. When she isn’t writing, she’s reading and attempting to join as many book clubs as time will allow.
BOOK: A Healing Touch
AUTHOR: Liz Arnold
GENRE: Historical Romance
BLURB: In post-revolutionary America, Molly Hilliard wants to be more than an herbal healer, and she answers the lure of adventure on the Ohio River and journeys to the Northwest Territory seeking the freedom to set up a medical practice. Along the way, she tries to hire Romney Applewood as a guide, but he is going the opposite direction. After ten years as a captive of the Delaware Indians, Romney wants to get as far east as possible to forget his past and avoid the bounty on his head for taking part in raids upon settlers’ homes. Something about the way she sacrifices herself to heal others, and something about the way he endures the difficulties he encounters because of his tormented past, links them in more than their quest as they blaze new trails in their lives and in America’s frontier.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Liz Arnold writes spicy historical romance and lives in the Mid-Ohio Valley.
BOOK: Likely Suspects
AUTHOR: Barbara Jean Miller
GENRE: Regency Suspense
BLURB: To protect her destitute sister and niece, Roslyn Clary must appeal to the new lord of the manor, Mark St John. A temporary role if her sister delivers a boy child to assume the title. Roslyn is suspicious of Mark’s generosity, and vows never to fall in love with him no matter how heroic he seems. Reeling with attraction for Roslyn, Mark carries all of them to his mother’s house in London. He desperately wants to court Roslyn, but first must determine if the family is in danger since it appears his brother was murdered. There’s a long list of suspects, and it seems Mark has put himself in the queue of potential victims along with Roslyn.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Barbara Jean Miller is an author, educator, and nature observer
BOOK: Missing Mom
AUTHOR: Lynn Slaughter
GENRE: Young Adult Coming-of-age romantic mystery
BLURB: Never mind the circumstantial evidence. Seventeen-year-old Noelle, an aspiring ballet dancer, doesn’t believe her missing mother would ever have committed suicide and launches her own investigation. Meantime, she’s dealing with growing romantic feelings toward Ravi, her best friend and fellow dancer, as well as worries about why her little sister is so reluctant to visit their dad. Threaded throughout the novel is the story of a young woman nearly twenty years earlier whose escape from an abusive marriage turns out to be related to Noelle’s investigation.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lynn Slaughter is addicted to the arts, chocolate, and her husband’s cooking. After a long career as a professional dancer and dance educator, Lynn earned her MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University. She is the award-winning author of five young adult romantic mysteries: MISSING MOM, DEADLY SETUP, LEISHA’S SONG, IT SHOULD HAVEBEEN YOU, AND WHILE I DANCED, as well as an adult mystery, MISSEDCUE. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky, where she’s at work on her next novel and serves on the board of Derby Rotten Scoundrels, the Ohio River Valley chapter of Sisters in Crime.
BOOK: That Pinson Girl
AUTHOR: Gerry Wilson
GENRE: Literary Historical Fiction
BLURB: In a bleak MS farmhouse in 1918, Leona Pinson gives birth to an illegitimate son whose father she refuses to name, but who will, she believes, return from the war to rescue her from a hardscrabble life with a distant mother, a dangerous brother, and a dwarf aunt. When instead her lover returns with a wife in tow, her dreams are shattered. As her brother’s violence escalates and her aunt flees, Leona must rely on the help of Luther Biggs, the son of her grandfather and one of his former slaves, to protect her child. Told against the backdrop of the deprivation of World War I, the tragedies of the influenza epidemic, and the burden of generations of betrayal, That Pinson Girl unfolds in lyrical, unflinching prose, engaging timeless issues of racism, sexism, and poverty.
CONGRATULATIONS ON BEING RECENTLY NOMINATED FOR THE MISSISSIPPI INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND LETTERS FICTION AWARD!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Debut novelist at 82! 7th generation Mississippian. Former high school English teacher.
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Hugh Bartram, Viscount of Dancy, has never met anyone like levelheaded Kate, thrusting herself into a scandal to save his sister from gossip. He resents Kate trying to solve everything with money, even as he admits her heart is in the right place.
Just as they wed, his sister elopes, and Dancy is captivated by the unconventional Kate as they ride across England together to prevent another scandal.
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West Virginia Writers, Inc. Annual Writing Contest, Honorable Mention, Novel, 1998.
New York Book Festival, Honorable Mention, Writer Wellness, 2020.
Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Finalist, Writer Wellness, 2021.
Northeast Ohio Romance Writers of America, Member of the Year, 2020.
Northeast Ohio Romance Writers of America, First Book Award, 2020.
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