Jencey's Corner

Photo by Chris Arlen Tessa Arlen is  visiting Writer's Corner for her new book in the Lady Montfort Mysteries series Death of  an Unsung Hero.   I have one copy up for grabs.  Giveaway will be open to US only.  Please follow the link to rafflecopter.  What inspired you to begin writing mysteries? Was the Lady Montfort Mysteries a series you always wanted to write? Ever since I read Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes when I was fourteen I wanted to write mysteries. I particularly enjoyed the Golden Age mystery writers: Dorothy L. Sayers Agatha Christie, Josephine Tey, Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham often referred to as the Queens of Crime who wrote detective fiction between the wars. And it wasn’t until I started to write mystery that I discovered that they considered their whodunits as a game for both author and reader: the elements of the mystery must be clearly presented but in such a way as to arouse curiosity, to entice the reader to try and...

Thank you to Harper Collins for sending me a copy of The Lost Castle by Kristy Cambron.   I was given this copy in exchange for an honest review. Cue the music for Once Upon a time theme to start playing on the screen.   The scene will open to a castle with a mysterious princess inside. This tale will not lead to Emma and her family, but to Ellie, her grandmother Lady Viola (Lady Vi), and her distant relative Aveline.   Are you ready for the story to begin? Synopsis:   Aveline is preparing for her wedding to the Duke of Vivay.   Her wedding has been arranged by her father.   It will take place in the summer of 1789.   The night of the engagement party, peasants attack the castle owned by the Vivays. Then everything changes when Aveline becomes separated from her mother and the rest of their family. Peasants are looking for her and searching for the sleeping princess.   What does her future hold?   What happened to the princess ...