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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Dead in Dubai
By Marilynn Larew
Lee Carruthers, Book 2
Publisher: Artemis Hunter Press
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Genre: International
Mystery/Thriller
Format: eBook/Print
Length: 284 Pages
ISBN: 978-0991091232
ASIN: B00V5DNYHM
Buy Links: Amazon | B&N | Kobo | IndieBound
About the book:
Why is
CIA officer George Branson dead in Dubai? It looks like straight detective
work, finding out what George has been up to and why he’s dead, but when former
CIA analyst Lee Carruthers arrives in Dubai, she walks into a deadly war
between two rival Merchants of Death vying for market share. She learns that
George has worked for each man under a different name. With his own, that gives
George three identities. Which man is dead? Has George really been working for
the Agency, or has he sold out and, if so, to whom? Who are the men following
her? And why does she keep finding diamonds?
EXCERPTOwen waved from a booth in the rear. He had already started, probably early in the day. He stood up to shake my hand, and I kissed him on his wrinkled cheek. He was a bit stooped from all the years bent over a keyboard, and his hair, what there was left of it on his bony skull, was a yellowing white, as was his drooping mustache. He claimed he arrived on the plane that took the last Brit troops out in 1971, and I had no reason to doubt it. His age was impossible to estimate. He hadn’t changed since the first time I saw him, probably because he was pickled in alcohol.I ordered a beer. I don’t like beer. That might help me stay sober. We chatted about this and that: the Emirates part in the air war against the Islamic State, the continuing recovery of the construction industry, the tallest building in the world. Con finished his drink and ordered another.“So what do you want?” he asked.“Information,” I replied and shelled some peanuts.He took a healthy swig of the new drink. “Don’t we all? Any particular information?”I poured some beer and took a sip. I still didn’t like beer. “The recent turmoil in the arms trade,” I replied.“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” he said. He looked into his drink and screwed it around on the beer mat.“Come on, Con. It doesn’t happen in Dubai without your permission.” He didn’t look up. “This isn’t the States. I don’t work for The Washington Post.”
Marilynn Larew has had a lot
of variety in her life. She lived in six states and two foreign countries
before settling down in southern Pennsylvania. She went to twelve schools
before she graduated from high school and two more before she finished her PhD in
history. Moving around so much, she found the public library a refuge and her
library card a magic carpet to foreign lands. She taught for some years in the
University System of Maryland, courses such as US history, architectural
history, the history of terrorism, and Vietnamese military history. She also
worked in historic preservation and wrote two books of local history about Bel
Air, the county seat of Harford County in Maryland.
She writes what she likes to
read – thrillers that are located in foreign countries. She likes to collect
cookbooks on foreign cuisines and often cooks from them.
She’s married, with two
children, two grandchildren, and a new great granddaughter. She lives with her
husband on the Mason-Dixon line in southern Pennsylvania in a two
hundred-year-old brick farmhouse.
She’s a member of the Sisters
in Crime, the Guppies, and the Chinese Military History Society.
Links:
website: www.marilynnlarew.com
twitter: https://twitter.com/marilynn_larew
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marilynn.larew
Really enjoyed reading the entire post today. This is a new author for me but I would love to learn more! Thank you for the reveal!
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DeleteThanks for stopping by, Nikolina.
thank you for the chance to win
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DeleteMy pleasure, Lisa Brown. Thanks for stopping by.
Thank you for hosting
ReplyDeleteWhat genre do you rarely read, but wish you read more of?
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DeleteMai T. Thanks for dropping by. I wish I had more time to read Chinese history.
How long have you been writing?
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DeleteThanks for stopping by, Amy C. I’ve been writing for about 20 years, off and on. Seriously for the last 5.
Sounds like a really interesting book. I love novels set in this location.
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DeleteMaggie Boyd, thanks for stopping by. I like to read (and write) books set in foreign places, set in places I’ve been, sometimes ones I have to research.
I enjoyed learning about this author and her writing and life. Very talented and interesting author. saubleb(at)gmail(dot)com
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DeleteThanks for dropping by, Traveler. It’s been a varied life, to say the least.
Thank you for the excerpt.
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DeleteRita, thanks for stopping by. I’m glad you liked the excerpt.
I enjoyed the excerpt, Marilynn, sounds like a great read, thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteFrom the author: Eva, thanks for coming by.
DeleteThanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteFrom the author: Ran, thanks for coming by.
DeleteI have enjoyed learning about the book. Thanks for sharing it.
ReplyDeleteFrom the author: Hi, Patrick. Thanks for dropping by.
DeleteGrowing up did you know you wanted to write?
ReplyDeleteGreat excerpt, thank you for sharing, Marilynn! From reading your bio, I wondered if you grew up in a military family?
ReplyDeleteFrom the author: Hi, Betty. No, my father was a radio engineer. It was the golden age of little 500 watt radio stations. He loved to put them together and on the air, but he soon grew bored with the day-to-day running of them, so it was off to a new town to put a new station on the air. I don’t realize that this wasn’t a normal life until I grew up. :-)
Deletelove the cover and sounds like an interesting read. I grew up and lived in the same town from 1st grade till I married but my library card was my favorite possession.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway
From the author: Hi Pamk. I wonder now what it would have been like to live in one place. Maybe I would write cozies instead of international thrillers. The public library is a great invention, though, isn’t it?
DeleteSounds like an awesome story! I can't wait to read this one, thanks for sharing :)
ReplyDeleteFrom the author: Hi Victoria. Thanks for dropping by.
DeleteFrom the author: Hi, Victoria, thanks for coming by and commenting. I tried to make the story awesome. Hope I succeeded.
DeleteI'll leave a review and let you know once I'm done reading it :)
DeleteI enjoyed the excerpt but now I need to know who is Owen and who is Con! Thank you.
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