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Rosalie Rayburn

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The United States

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Genre

Mystery, Gay and Lesbian, Contemporary

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Rosalie Rayburn is a journalist and author who has lived in many countries including the USA, UK, Ireland, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Australia and Portugal. She earned a bachelors’s degree in Sociology from Trinity College Dublin and started her newspaper career freelancing for the Irish Times and Irish Independent. Travels took her to Norway where she was news editor for the English language Saga Weekly and contributed to the trade magazine Norwegian Oil Review. Returning to the US, she spent 18 years as a staff writer for the Albuquerque Journal; during which she covered business, local government, energy and telecommunications.
She had six short stories broadcast by Radio Telefis Eireann in Ireland, authored a business guidebook “Living and ...more

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Average rating: 4.74 · 137 ratings · 56 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Windswept: A Digger Doyle Mystery 4.82 avg rating — 73 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Power of Rain: A Digger Doyle Mystery 4.50 avg rating — 40 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sunshine Solution: A Digger Doyle Mystery 4.92 avg rating — 24 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Sun brings relief to storm-battered Portugal

Valentine’s Day brought a rare sight. The return of the sun in Portugal which has endured weeks of relentless downpours. The storms have brought an estimated 10 inches to 15 inches of rain since January 1, nearly twice the normal amount.

The rains came at the worst possible time. The country was already reeling from the effects storm, Kristin, which ripped across a wide swath of central Portugal o

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Rosalie Rayburn rated a book it was amazing Don't Let Him In by Lisa Jewell (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This was the most gripping thriller I have listened to this year. Lisa Jewell has crafted a complex plot with dual time lines that ultimately converge. Her portrait of the psychopathic male character who goes by different names depending on which wom ...more
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Rosalie Rayburn made a comment in the group Queereaders — The Castle of High Winds* New Book topic " Hi I am excited to be taking my murder mystery “Windswept” to the Tucson Festival of Books, March 14-15. Windswept is the third in my Digger Doyle ser ...more "
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Rosalie Rayburn rated a book liked it Ghost Canyon: A Fernando Lopez Santa Fe Mystery by James C. Wilson	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I was looking forward to reading this because I lived in New Mexico for many years and have visited Chaco Canyon. The book gives a lot of accurate information about Chaco Canyon and some of its history. But the characters, Fernando Lopez and others, ...more
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Rosalie Rayburn made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Consolidating book pages topic " please can my book Windswept (SBN 978989211036) and (ASIN B0DQXDMMKJ) be added to the Goodreads page that shows my first two books in this series The P ...more "
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