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Jennifer Lee Carrell
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- Hometown:
- Tucson, AZ
- About Me:
- I've wanted to be a writer for as long as I can remember. Early on, my fallback career choices were ballerina and astronaut. Much later, I thought I'd become a Shakespeare professor. Through some strange twists and turns, I've circled back to writing...
I'm actually quite surprised that my first novel is a thriller!
INTERRED WITH THEIR BONES is literary thriller about finding one of the lost plays by Shakespeare....
- I Am A:
- Reader, Writer
- Website:
- http://www.jenniferleecarrell.com
- Books And Authors I Like:
- FAVORITE MYSTERY WRITERS:
Arturo Perez-Reverte. Dorothy Sayers. PD James. Tony Hillerman. Wilkie Collins.
And Shakespeare, of course. (Hamlet's a superb murder mystery.)
ALL-TIME FAVORITES:
To Kill a Mockingbird. War and Peace. Lonesome Dove. Lord of the Rings. Laxdaela saga. Winter's Tale. Middlemarch. Bleak House. Beowulf. A Room of One's Own. Possession. The English Patient.
GOOD BOOKS I'VE READ RECENTLY:
Volk's Game, by Brent Ghelfi. The Season of the Witch, by Natasha Mostert. The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger. 1491, by Charles C. Mann. The Magus, by John Fowles (again!)
CHILDHOOD FAVORITES:
Harriet the Spy. My Side of the Mountain. From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. The Oz books. The Secret Garden.
- Movies And TV Shows I Like:
- The Usual Suspects. Dangerous Liaisons. Rear Window. A Perfect Murder. Dial M for Murder. The Sixth Sense. The Shawshank Redemption. To Have and Have Not. The Maltese Falcon. Casablanca. Now, Voyager. All About Eve. Anything with Fred Astaire. Amelie. Chocolat.
Epics: Out of Africa. Lawrence of Arabia. Gone With The Wind. The Godfather.
Best film ever made for TV: Band of Brothers.
Lost, Jon Stewart, and The Colbert Report are the only TV shows I watch regularly--though I also like to watch the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Red Sox.
"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."
A long-lost work of Shakespeare, newly found.
A killer who stages the Bard's extravagant murders as flesh-and-blood realities.
A desperate race to find literary gold, and just to stay alive...
Interred With Their Bones will be on bookshelves in the US on September 20! Release in 22 more countries to come...
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Best regards
Preetham Grandhi
Early Endorsements for “A Circle of Souls”
Linda Fairstein, NYT Bestselling Author: "A fascinating debut - this novel takes the reader to the darkest places in the human soul, from a writer with the authenticity to lead us there. A stunning thriller and an important read."
Judge Judy Sheindlin, star of the Judge Judy Show: "The seminal work of this fine author kept me glued to my chair until the adventure was over and the mystery solved. A great read!"
Book Synopsis:
The sleepy town of Newbury, Connecticut, is shocked when a little girl is found brutally murdered. The town s top detective, perplexed by a complete lack of leads, calls in FBI agent Leia Bines, an expert in cases involving children.
Meanwhile, Dr. Peter Gram, a psychiatrist at Newbury s hospital, searches desperately for the cause of seven-year-old Naya Hastings devastating nightmares. Afraid that she might hurt herself in the midst of a torturous episode, Naya s parents have turned to the bright young doctor as their only hope.
The situations confronting Leia and Peter converge when Naya begins drawing chilling images of murder after being bombarded by the disturbing images in her dreams. Amazingly, her sketches are the only clues to the crime that has panicked Newbury residents. Against her better judgment, Leia explores the clues in Naya s crude drawings, only to set off an alarming chain of events.
In this stunning psychological thriller, innocence gives way to evil, and trust lies forgotten in a web of deceit, fear, and murder.
Charlotte
BEST FIRST NOVEL
Interred With Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell (Dutton)
Big City, Bad Blood by Sean Chercover (William Morrow)
From the Depths by Gerry Doyle (McBook Press)
Volk's Game by Brent Ghelfi (Henry Holt and Co.)
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (William Morrow)
Congrats, Ms. Carrell. Excellent book, and your in good Company. I don't know all of these books, but I do know "The Heart-Shaped Box" and "Big City, Bad Blood."
What fun to read your page! We have so much in common...it's amazing.
First: I adore your book. I got it early on, and was reading it as I toured for my first mystery. I went to a bookstore in California, and there was the proprietor--reading IWTB! He was delighted that I had read it..and we had a lovely chat about it.
Hey. We were supposed to be chatting about MY book, Prime Time, but la dee dah.
Winter's Tale--the Mark Helprin book, right? Is my favorite book ever.
I majored in Shakespeare in college--but have spent the last 30 years (and counting) as an investigative reporter.
(Now on the air on th NBC affiliate in Boston.)
When other girls in college were infatuated with the latest movie stars, I literally (hmm) day-dreamed about meeting Henry V.
Can't wait to read your next book!
All best
Hank
are your book published in the EU as well???
kind regards from Switzerland, Jan
Now - ballerina/astronaut/Shakespeare professor is far more exotic than sheep keeper. I wanted to be a vet in my way younger days, but I was useless at science and discovered I fainted at the sight of blood. Both these issues I am working on here - I like a challenge too.
I never was a publisher - I worked in publishing - I was a designer and reprographics person. This meant I created the ideas, created the artwork and the reprographics bit meant I created the film from which plates were made for print.
Books were only a small part of things, I did identity (logos etc), reports, board games, posters - anything for print. Most "notable" book would have to be : "Understanding Disease" By Stephen Mera, published by Stanley Thornes. (Yawn) Not quite as thrilling as reading crime novels I am afraid.
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