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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
Well, this is not just genre, but sort of a hybrid genre.
Patricia Ryan just added her "A Gilded Age Mystery" series (originally published under the P.B. Ryan pseudonym). There as six books - a mystery series set in 1860s Boston. The stories center around a young Irish governess, Nell Sweeney, who gets pulled into various murder investigations.
There's a romantic interest, but it's very slow going and doesn't overtake the mystery stories. He is the opium-addicted son of the people Nell works for (and the father of the child she takes care of).
I very much enjoyed these books.
If you're at all interested, the first book in the series was just reviewed at a blog I like to visit (it's how I found out the books were released at Smashwords). I'd read them in DT format, but am gladly replacing those with nicely priced ebook copies. |
Thanks so much for mentioning my books, and thanks to Ficbot for buying
Still Life With Murder. My favorite scene out of the 27 novels I've written is the one that starts at the end of chapter 2, when Nell meets Will for the first time in the police station holding cell. He's battered and bloodied, going through opium withdrawal, and doesn't seem to care whether he lives or dies--but underneath it all, he still has the instincts of a gentleman. I loved writing that scene, and I can't tell you how many times I've re-read it.
I recently published these books (and six medieval romances I'd also gotten the rights back to) on
Smashwords and
Kindle so that I could price them at just $2.99 in order to encourage new readers to try me out. (Although my Smashwords titles are on sale for $2.24 till the end of the month.) I've been so gratified by the reception--not to mention the sales--and I don't understand why more authors don't publish digital editions of their backlist. I suspect we're going to see a lot more of that moving forward.
Right now, I'm reading Justin Cronin's
The Passage (in hardcover so I could lend it to my husband afterward). It's available as an ebook in all formats, of course, and it's a FABULOUS, smart vampire tale! Before that, I read digital editions of Susan Elizabeth Phillips'
Dream a Little Dream and
Ain't She Sweet. She never disappoints.
I've just discovered this forum, so I'm going to head over to Introductions now and say hi.
Pat