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Ellen Read

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Multi Award Winning, multi genre author, Ellen Read, is the author of The Thornton Mysteries – cosy murder mysteries set in Australia. Ellen also writes ghost stories and thrillers. Her latest book is a fantasy, based on the Triple Goddess of Celtic mythology and soon to be published by Serenade Publishing.
When she’s not writing, she’s reading, painting or taking photographs.
Ellen loves to read fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. She particularly loves history and stories of ancient myths and legends. Authors such as Agatha Christie, Mary Stewart, Robert Graves, Edgar Allan Poe, and Victoria Holt have influenced her work.

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Ellen Read I was in the middle of packing and moving house and wanted something smaller to write than the novel I was revising. I looked through some short stori…moreI was in the middle of packing and moving house and wanted something smaller to write than the novel I was revising. I looked through some short stories I wrote years ago and found Love The Gift. It was very short and it needed some revision. It was set in England in the early 1900s. I decided I'd like to set it in Australia and Sutton Forest appealed to me as just the right location for the house and Charlotte's walled garden. I'd been there a couple of years before. It is such a beautiful place. As I started thinking about the story, I felt I wanted it to have a contemporary setting with a time shift to 1905.(less)
Ellen Read I never sit at the computer and stare at a blank document waiting for inspiration to come to me. I think ahead about what I'm writing for the day. How…moreI never sit at the computer and stare at a blank document waiting for inspiration to come to me. I think ahead about what I'm writing for the day. However, sometimes the characters or the story starts to go in a different direction to what I intended, which may seem odd but it happens. When it does and I need to think things through, I always leave the computer and walk around, or have a coffee, or read someone's else's book for a few minutes. Then I can go back to the computer feeling refreshed. (less)
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Wings of Death – Book Release

Death will slay with his wings whoever disturbs the peace of the pharaoh.

Cassandra Bain has built her life on cold ambition and harder edges. A razor-sharp Melbourne fashion designer, she has long since buried the woman she once was — the one who wanted children, a husband, a heart. Four miscarriages and a hollow marriage will do that to a person.

Then her lover, the dangerously magnetic Leigh

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Christie’s life changes after the death of her grandmother. She attends the funeral instead of going away with her domineering boyfriend.

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“Time meant nothing.
She loved him in an instant.
She would love him forever.”
― Ellen Read, The Dragon Sleeps

“There is always stardust in my eyes when I look at you, my love.”
― Ellen Read, The Dragon Sleeps

“Mark ran his fingers over the bindings and
whispered words, written long ago, words that
wriggled through the aged leather, trembled
beneath his touch. What lives and loves,
hopes and dreams, deaths and despair
these volumes held.”
― Ellen Read, Love The Gift

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“Time meant nothing.
She loved him in an instant.
She would love him forever.”

Murder at Thornton Park”
― Ellen Read, Murder at Thornton Park

“There is always Stardust in my eyes, when I look at you, my love.

Murder at Thornton Park.”
― Ellen Read

“She left after buying several cards painted by local artists, and books by two local authors.”
― Ellen Read, When Jacarandas Bloom

“The castle rose above the early morning mist like a ship sailing majestically on a grey sea.”
― Ellen Read, Die For Love

“Wax and feathers,” Alaric repeated, and then laughed again. “This might be the last great assault on the tower,” he added.

Ellen Read, The Treasure”
― Ellen Read, The Treasure

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