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Spotlight: The Twenty-One Year Contract

Blurb: The Twenty-One-Year-Contract

Fourteen-year-old Kathleen Gray— talented, a little wild, at times rebellious, but always popular—has a fun, easy life in rural Somerset, with a doting family. Suddenly, they are gone, she has only Uncle Jack. Try as he might, he cannot be father and mother to her. Kathleen takes a chance and becomes Kate Westfield, fending for herself in London, with a new life built on her hopes and dreams and new friends. She could hardly have imagined that one of those friends has a shoebox full of answers.

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About the Author: L.B. Griffin has been inspired by life experience as she seamlessly weaves reality into compelling fiction. Her debut, historical romance, Secrets, Shame, and a Shoebox has received superb 5 star reviews, amongst them VINE VOICE reader/blogger Michelle Ryles, singing high praise: ‘Incredibly well-written, Secrets, Shame, and a Shoebox is a magnificent debut. It’s a poignant, disturbing and a heart-warming page-turner that has left me chomping at the bit to continue Harriet’s story.’ The sequel, also standalone – The Twenty-One-Year Contract, receiving five-star reviews. Author Terry Newman: “This book will have you laughing, crying and cheering.” Author Richard Levine: ‘Griffin pens a masterful work with The Twenty-one-Year Contract, as she takes us on a journey from post-war England and through the 1950s and 1960s.’ L.B. Griffin continues to turn silent stories into courage, hope and survival. ‘Survival is a triumph of the human spirit.’ Be warned, Griffin is a self-confessed chocolate-raisin and strawberry addict!

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Review: Mele Kalikimaka Murder

MELE KALIKIMAKA MURDER by Aimee Gilchrist

Fiction, Cozy Mystery, Aloha Lagoon Series

4****

Blurb: The only thing that Aloha Lagoon Resort manager Charlotte Conner hates more than her employees working on “island time” is Christmas. It isn’t just the over commercialized tripe, but it’s also the fact that once-upon-a-time her Christmas would-be wedding went up in spectacular flames. Now she has to share the hated Hawaiian holiday with her twin sister (the one responsible for Charlotte’s ruined vows), Alexander Cho (the one currently responsible for destroying Charlotte’s peace of mind and libido), and the body of one very dead assistant. Aloha Lagoon’s police department can’t find anyone else with a better motive for killing Charlotte’s assistant than Charlotte herself, so now it’s up to her, Alex, and her irritatingly ever-present twin to hunt down the real murderer before Charlotte spends her Christmas in a jail cell for a Mele Kalikimurder she didn’t commit. This is one holly-jolly holiday that just might end up deadly!

Thoughts: I enjoyed this book – and I hope there’s going to be a follow-up because I really want to know what happens with Charlie and Alex and Georgie and Martin.

Everything is chaotic at the resort the week before Christmas. There are luaus and parties and games and tons of guests and it’s up to Charlotte (Charlie) the manager to coordinate it all, which she does with lightning efficiency. But when her assistant ends up dead, things start to break down. Then her twin sister Georgie shows up and needs a job. And the assistant manager, Alex, becomes a problem for her emotionally. Charlie can’t afford to get attached. She can’t.
But she does.
As she and Alex and Georgie look into the woman’s death, they discover more than they bargained for. A lot more. Things are not all sunshine and sandy beaches on Kauai.

Definitely recommended.