Mary Grand's Blog

HI, Just to let you know my new murder mystery, "The Island " is free to download on Amazon for a very limited time...grab a copy now!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08WYZSKJ...

So excited!
My new novel Behind the Smile is now out.
An emotionally charged, totally gripping story that will keep you turning the pages late into the night.
Lowri is pregnant, looking forward to a new life with her lover, Simon. But her plans are shattered. She finds herself alone, her face scarred, her future uncertain
Her estranged husband, Jack, proposes they “settle” for each other, and raise Lowri’s unborn child on the Isle of Wight, in the idyllic village of Elmstone.
Lowri is befriended by Carina, the beautiful Italian woman living in Elmstone Manor, and Heather, the popular local café proprietor. However, she soon discovers that no-one is the person they appear.
The link is https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07BHV2BCW/

Free to Be Tegan. Tegan is cast out of the cult where she was brought up, the only life she has known. She has been taught the world is evil, how will she survive? This book is on special offer at 99 p this weekend
http://amzn.eu/cRyRwEO

Hi I am off to Florence soon. I am reading Sarah Dunant' s Birth of Venice to get me in the mood.

Not long now untill the audio book of Catching the Light is out. If you want to hear a sample go to my website,
https://marygrand.net/audio/

Lovely interview on lindasbookbag.com/ about the importance of setting in writing.
find it on https://lindasbookbag.com/2016/11/09
Wales has places of extraordinary beauty and a rich heritage of stories, myths and legends. I love the way people speak: even when they are speaking English their voices sing. As for the Welsh language, where else would you find words like cariad, (love, darling, sweetheart) cwtch (cuddle)? Wales is a place where people can be chatty, intrusive and where emotions are close to the surface. It is a privilege, a gift, to set stories there
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01L0EZ6MQ

Sacred Hearts

Off to the Isle of Wight Literary Festival.Today I shall be hearing Sarah Dunant who wrote one of my all time favourite books Sacred Hearts ! Very Excited!

Free To Be Tegan ....it FREE TO DOWNLOAD for 5 days!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00UC9R1YM
This is the uplifting story of Tegan's journey from life in a cult to find herself and flourish in a world she has been taught to fear and abhor.

I love Agatha Christie novels, : Five Little PigsFive Little Pigs
Agatha Christie was born 126 years ago today! The Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple creator is the best-selling novelist of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, and has kept generations of readers guessing with genre-defining capers like And Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient Express, and Murder at the Vicarage. To celebrate the inimitable Queen of Crime and her love of surprise endings (the reveal in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is still one of our all-time favorites), we asked you on Facebook and Twitter: What book has the best plot twists? Your top answers—full of enough madness, mayhem, monsters, and murder to make Christie proud—are below. How many of them have you read? Did you guess any of the twists before they happened?

Latest 5 star reviews of Hidden Chapters:

A lovely summer read, I really enjoyed this book and read it in one go to find out what happened next!

A fabulous read

a cleverly crafted, compelling story

A wonderful story about a complicated family.

This is a poignant story of a loving family with all its problems but with love and devotion conquers all. We loved it.
Don't start reading this book if you have anything else that needs doing!.Hidden Chapters: A powerful novel exploring motherhood, adoption, and family secrets


Link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01L0EZ6MQ