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Download & Review - Get it while it's hot, this is a one week deal! If you are truly passionate about reviewing and sharing your love of Sherlock Holmes books, then I invite you to claim your free reviewer copy of my new audiobook, courtesy of MX Publishing. Five Miles of Country by Gretchen Altabef (NEW AUDIOBOOK… Continue reading FREE AUDIOBOOK DEAL – FIVE MILES OF COUNTRY
In his own words: You must have a twinkle in your eye, a naughtiness - and the audience must realize your mind is working faster than your words." "I meditate and do yoga. I sit cross-legged and try not to levitate too much." "I always read any reviews about my own work--I think it's important… Continue reading Happy Ninety First Birthday Jeremy! You are sorely missed.
“This elegant publication… cleverly develops an ingenious and original new plot, finally delivering to the reader a stunning conclusion to the novel.” Review by Julia Stoneham for The Historical Novel Society. The Historical Novel Society was founded in the UK in 1997. It was "conceived as something of a campaigning society for the support of… Continue reading Review of Five Miles of Country by The Historical Novel Society.
I sprang to my feet, my hand grasping my pistol, my mind paralysed by the dreadful shape which had sprung out upon us from the shadows of the fog. A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its… Continue reading HAPPY HOOOOOUNDAWEEN!!!
Give it a listen! FIVE MILES OF COUNTRY - A New Sherlock Holmes Adventure is out on audio. Just in time for the holidays. A FIVE-STAR Sherlock Holmes Mystery written from a women's perspective by Gretchen Altabef. Brilliantly narrated by J.T. McDaniel. J.T. McDaniel's Scottish lilt adds authenticity to the voices of Doctor Watson and… Continue reading FIVE MILES OF COUNTRY Audiobook is out NOW!
NEW 5-STAR REVIEW for Five Miles of Country Reviewed in the United Kingdom. Altabef triumphantly... brings in new characters... a great sense of period... expanded roles for Mrs Hudson... Irene Adler... Murray... an intriguing murder plot located on the world’s first film set... has the reader eager to turn the page and find out what… Continue reading A Bangingly Good read!
You look at THESE SCATTERED HOUSES, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation, and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there . . . Had this lady who appeals to us for help gone… Continue reading “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches” & My Sherlock Novels
Orlando Pearson is the author of The Redacted Sherlock Holmes Series. Great sense of period in London and on an ocean liner from Liverpool to New York . . . an intriguing murder plot located on the world’s first film set and its twists has the reader eager to turn the page and find out… Continue reading Orlando Pearson’s Review of FIVE MILES OF COUNTRY
Written by Orlando Pearson. Audiobook narrated by Keith Spilsbury. “War, as we have seen in A Modern Odysseus can flare up as if from nowhere, but once men and arms have been staked on a successful outcome, concluding it requires that even the vanquished get something out of the final negotiations, and that even the… Continue reading Review – A Study In Statecraft: The Memoirs of Mycroft Holmes
I write about heroes and heroines and the art of true justice. Human heroes with human abilities. Genius is a human ability. Friendship is a human ability. Love is a human ability. I write Sherlock Holmes novels. And I take great joy in adding to Dr Doyle's heroic stories something he left out – the… Continue reading The Rachel Holmes Series with FIVE MILES OF COUNTRY
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