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PRAISE FOR THE NOVELS OF VICKI LANE IN A DARK SEASON
A Romantic Times Best Mystery and Suspense Novels of 2008 Pick Anthony Nominee for Best Paperback Original “The precise details and many mysteries are all skillfully drawn together at the end, and the main characters are clearly developed, complicated people who have lives outside the mystery. Elizabeth Goodweather is a perfect protagonist who shows that there can be intelligence and romance after 50.” —Romantic Times “Vicki Lane is a born storyteller in the finest tradition of Sharyn McCrumb. Lane’s best yet, In a Dark Season, is a haunting, lyrical tale of the Appalachians, as heartbreaking as it is magical. Brooding, suspenseful, and superbly written, Lane’s Marshall County mysteries rank among the best regional fiction anywhere today.” —J S -F ULIA
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“Suspenseful, atmospheric, and beautifully written.” —S G A RA H
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“Lane craftily deepens the swiftly moving plot with liberal sprinklings of Carolina folklore.” —Publishers Weekly
OLD WOUNDS “Lane is very adept at creating complex, multi-faceted stories that move effortlessly from one time period to another and characters with incredible depth. She is also a master of using sensory details to make locale come alive. Old Wounds exemplifies these talents. Readers weary of reading too many mysteries featuring frothy amateur sleuths won’t find a better antidote than Old Wounds!” —Mystery News “Vicki Lane is quite simply the best storyteller there is. Her books, like her Appalachian home, have everything: mystery, suspense, beauty, heart, and soul.” —J R M OHN
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“A story so exquisitely written and perfectly paced, you will not want to put this book down. Old Wounds is a powerful and very personal mystery for the thoughtful Elizabeth Goodweather to solve.” —J L A CK IE
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“Lane’s sharp eye for detail gets put to good use in this second installment of her Appalachian series.… The widow Good weather is a wonderful character: plucky, hip and wise. The dialogue sparkles with authenticity, and Lane generates suspense without sacrificing the charm and mystique of her mountain community.” —Publishers Weekly “Lane mixes the gentle craft of old-time quilting with the violence of a slaughtered innocent.” —Greensboro News & Record “Lane is a master at creating authentic details while building suspense.” —Asheville Citizen-Times
SIGNS IN THE BLOOD “Vicki Lane shows us an exotic and colorful picture of Appalachia from an outsider’s perspective— through a glass darkly. It is a well-crafted, suspenseful tale of the bygone era before ‘Florida’ came to the mountains.” —S M C HA RY N
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“ Signs in the Blood turns the beauty of the Appalachian hills and a widow’s herb and flower farm into the backdrop for modern menace. This clash of the traditional and the modern makes for an all-nighter of satisfying suspense.” —Mystery Lovers Bookshop News “For readers familiar with the sound and feel of mountain life, this book rings with a resonance that is true to the life it describes. For everyone else, this book opens a peephole into a world both hauntingly strange and achingly beautiful.… Regional mystery lovers, take note. A new heroine has come to town and her arrival is a time for rejoicing.” —Rapid River Magazine
Also by Vicki Lane
In a Dark Season Old Wounds Art’s Blood Signs in the Blood
The Day of Small Things is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. A Dell Mass Market Original Copyright © 2010 by Vicki Lane All rights reserved. Published in the United S