Delighted to share the news of a new release by Lucinda E. Clarke – The psychological thriller – A Year in the Life of Belinda Brand – on pre-order until May 14th at a special price.
About the book
Belinda Brand becomes an overnight sensation when Hollywood offers to make a film of her runaway bestseller. A confident, modern woman, she has the world at her feet – and a secret she is convinced no one will ever discover. Leah, her gentle and long-suffering stepmother will guess, but she would never betray her, or would she?
When menacing notes appear after the Awards ceremony in London and then follow her across the Atlantic, Belinda realizes someone is threatening to expose her.
As she struggles to stay calm, her best friend disappears, Belinda’s celebrity life turns into a nightmare and there is no one she can trust.
If the Brand family thought they could lead a quiet, normal life, they were wrong. Danger continues to lurk in the shadows.
A fast-paced, page-turning psychological thriller, full of surprises, twists, and turns.
For fans of Karin Slaughter, Claire McGowan, Valerie Keogh, and Liane Moriarty.
Head over to buy the book at the pre-order price of 99p: Amazon UK – And $1.38 : Amazon US
A selection of books by Lucinda E. Clarke
One of the reviews for the third book in the series A Year in the life of Deidre Flynn
As a long-time fan of Lucinda E. Clarke’s writing, I was delighted to be given a review copy of her latest book. I hadn’t read either of the previous ‘A year in the Life…’ novels, and wondered whether it would spoil my enjoyment to be picking up the story from Deidre Flynn’s perspective. It definitely didn’t! The clever device of three separate journal accounts (written by Deidre herself, Leah, and her niece Belinda), added extra depth and history, and the author skilfully wove the back story contained in the previous books into the narrative, so I was quickly up to speed with the details that led to the ongoing drama.
I won’t reiterate the story itself – the blurb tells you enough – but instead I’ll focus on what a gripping tale it is, with memorable characters and true to life dialogue, and enough plot twists to keep me eager to find out what unexpected happening the storyline would throw up next. There are characters who made me laugh (and not always kindly!) and ones who made my blood boil. No spoilers, so you’ll have to find out for yourself who the heroes and villains are in this superb psychological mystery thriller. Once again, I applaud Lucinda E. Clarke for her mastery as a writer. I’m just going to have to read the first two books now!
Read the reviews and buy the books : Amazon US – And : Amazon UK – Blog: WordPress Lucinda E. Clarke — Follow Lucinda: Goodreads – Twitter: @LucindaEClarke
About Lucinda E. Clarke
Lucinda E Clarke [not her real name] was born in Dublin, but has lived in 8 other countries to date. She wanted to write but was railroaded into teaching. She had a habit of “falling” into other careers, announcing on radio, then scriptwriting for radio and television. She has been a professional writer since 1986 winning over 20 awards for her work, including mayoral speeches, company profiles, drama documentaries, educational programmes for radio and television, adverts, news inserts, court videos, National Geographic, cookery programmes, to name but a few!
She lectured in scriptwriting, had her own column in various publications, and written for national magazines. She was commissioned for two educational books by Heinemann and Macmillan, and book reports for UNESCO and UNICEF.
She graduated into running her own video production company in South Africa.
Thanks for visiting and I hope you will take advantage of the pre-order price for Lucinda’s new book and will check out her others. Thanks Sally.
Already ordered and looking forward to the release date – Congratulations to our wonderfully prolific Lucinda! Toni x
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Thanks very much Toni.. great to hear..hugsx
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Hope you enjoy Toni, quite a lot fo humour this time, I was worried it would make it less scary!
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Great!
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This sounds like a nail-biter, Sally! Thank you for sharing and best wishes to Lucinda!
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Thanks very much Jan..hugsx
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Thank you Jan
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This looks like a fun read! I’ve pre-ordered my copy and look forward to reading it. Best of luck to Lucinda with this new release 🙂
Thanks for sharing, Sally. Hugs xx 🙂
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Thanks very much Harmony.. I am sure Lucinda will be delighted.. hugs
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Thank you. It’s nerve-wracking as you launch. Like sending a baby out into the world as a toddler!
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Oh, Lucinda! I never get over launch-time nerves. Wishing you all the best and sending huge warm hugs! 🙂 xx
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Thank you Harmony. I just want to go curl up under a blanket!
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Thank you for the great tipp, Sally! Sounds very very interesting, and thrillers around Hollywood are always worth to read. Michael
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I am sure a terrific read Michael. and as you say some great stories written in and around Hollywood…hugs
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Hollywood is a little different this time I think Michael, or is it? I hint that #metoo has had zero effect.
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Think so too, Lucinda! But as you are saying, only a little bit. ;-( Maybe there will be some changes in future. Michael
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I was delighted to be a Beta reader for Lucinda on this and can tell you that it is way up there with her other books in the series. It’s an absolutely cracking read, very highly recommended.
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Ann was getting worried as you have been ominously quiet since receiving it! But apparently, you liked it after all!
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Lucinda Clarke is new to me but sounds like I should remedy that quickly. Thanks for the review, Sally.
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Thank you Elizabeth.. xx
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It’s great to connect with new readers. I hope you will take a look at Leah’s rather stressful life. Can’t believe I have 16 books out there and busy scribbling the next one.
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Congrats to Lucinda on the new book. The blurb starts out on a high note and descends into danger fast. It sounds like a nail-biter. Great add to the bookstore, Sally.
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Thanks Diana.. I have to catch up with the series..xx
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Thank you Diana
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I already have Leah on my Kindle, but I’ve bought the other ‘Year in the Life’ books for the bargain price of a measly 99p a copy.
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That is a great offer Alex.. and I have read Leah and need to catch up..xx
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Best read in order though I have tried to make them standalone. Can be tricky not giving too much away but putting the reader in the picture to understand how and why characters react. I’ve run out of family members now, so I guess that is the whole series. Problem is, I’ve killed off a few of them, so no Dallas resurrection of Bobby in the shower scenario,
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This is yet anither one to go on my TBR list, which is getting longer by the day. Thanks for introducing us to all these great books.
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Great to hear thanks Viv..happy to tempt you..xx
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Time to start hating Andrea, Sally!
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This one sounds great. Psychological thrillers are right in my reading wheelhouse.
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Great thanks Pete. xx
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My earlier books were set in Africa, – familiar to me, but psycho thrillers are very popular right now. I’ve always enjoyed reading them too. Never thuoght I would write one.
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Sounds fab. I just hopped over to grab a copy and noticed US is 99 cents and Canadian price is $1.50 lol, what a hike on our dollar, considering our dollar is the best it’s been in a few years, only 17 cents off the US dollar. But I did take advantage of picking up the others too. Congrats to Lucinda, and I love the cover! ❤
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Thanks Debby.. there seems to be disparities between them all by the time they have added local taxes and VAT etc and their own version of the exchange rate.. A lot of our goods here are from the UK and especially clothes can end up 20% or more expensive by the time they have applied the conversion rate at the time of import. ♥
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Oh ya Sal, I know all about your VAT, but I was clicking around to test out price difference on a few books, and something is definitely off with Amazon, Doesn’t matter if British or American authored books, Zon is charging an extra 33% more for Canadian prices when our dollar is down to 17% lower in value, not 33%. Until that is sorted, I’m not buying anymore ebooks. I’m seeing books for 2.99 US costing $5.50 Canadian, where they should be more like 3.70-80 CAD. Not happening! Those are robbery prices. ❤
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They are Debby and well worth flagging not sure who too, perhaps a financial retail organisation perhaps or even Canadian Press.. I know we have similar discrepancies on Amazon between Euro and Pound prices on items.. robbery..xx♥
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Absolutely robbery! I’m on it Sal! ❤
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Pricing, like everything else, is a nightmare. I tried to make it as equal as possible but I had no idea if C$1.50 was a lot or not. I may have rounded that up as my sister-in-law is always telling me how prices vary across the border.
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Usually Amazon set the prices in the not originating countries and they do that at the time of publication so $1.50 was correct at that point. But as the exchange rate changes that is not taken into account.. so it remains that price.
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That’s interesting Lucinda that you’re saying you chose the price. Usually with Amazon, we price our books in our own currency and they price other countries accordingly. Realisitically, $1.50 is cheap for a book as we both know, but I was referring to the price difference. As I mentioned to Sally in another comment, I noticed this with many other books, not just UK, so Amazon better get their pricing together. As it stands, I did buy all 3 other books in this series and look forward to reading. 🙂 x
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Thank you, everyone, for your encouraging comments and especially to Sally for giving this a shout-out. I’ve kept the price of all my books for the moment, thank you Alex for pointing that out as times are hard. I have so much fun writing these books I hope people enjoy them too. Maybe this is Hollywood as you never imagined it!
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Thanks Lucinda. x
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I sent a parcel back last month. Correos wanted more in fees than I paid for the article – well it wasn’t me, it was Santa actually with a very late stocking present, but he wasn’t amused either.
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Reblogged this on lucinda E Clarke and commented:
A huge thank you to Sally for featuring my latest book. Hugs.
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Thanks for reblogging Lucinda.. x
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Reblogged this on Author Don Massenzio and commented:
Head over to the Smorgasbord Cafe and Bookstore for anothr New Book on the Shelves – Pre-Order – A Year in the Life of Belinda Brand by Lucinda E. Clarke
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Thank you Don freally appreciate all the shares.
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You’re welcome.
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Thanks for reblogging Don.. Appreciated.
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You’re welcome.
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