Title: GOING THERE: TALES FROM THE RIVIERA AND BEYOND
Author: Donna Fletcher Crow
Publisher: Verity Press
Pages: 152
Genre: Travel Memoir / Short Story Collection
In the summer of 2021 my daughter-in-law and I slipped through a brief window of sanity in a world driven mad by the Covid pandemic. Our purpose was to see my granddaughter Jane to a summer program in Monaco, then back to her ballet school in Switzerland. In spite of restrictions, protests, and nail-biting worries, the result was a marvelous experience.
I invited characters from my mystery series to join me in my imagination and have their own adventures in each setting. Their encounters are: Nice: “The Crime of Passion”; St Tropez: “The Mother Decrees”; Villefrance-sur-de-mer: “The Ghost Boy”; Monaco: “Fracas in Monaco”; The Loire Valley: “The Old Winemaker”; Saint Gallen: “Whispers of Legend”.
The final coda is “Home Another Way” As 2 years later I return from quite a different trip aboard the Queen Mary 2 and my characters join in the celebrations as worlds coincide.
More information on the book GOING THERE: TALES FROM THE RIVIERA AND BEYOND can be found at https://www.amazon.com/Going-There-Tales-Riviera-Beyond-ebook/dp/B0CPHBRVJH?ref_=ast_author_mpb.
FAVORITE QUOTE FROM FIRST CHAPTER:
Again, there had been the
time in March of 2003, when I was in retreat at a monastery in
Yorkshire and the American president issued an ultimatum giving Saddam
Hussein 48 hours to disarm. My husband called and said, “Come home. Now.
There will be war.”
BOOK COVER:
I think in all my years of seeing book covers, this one has to be the best one I've ever seen. Especially love the colors and am making a mental note to use these colors in one of my own upcoming books.
FIRST CHAPTER REVIEW:
What a delightful first chapter! I love the back story of her experiences traveling just after the Covid restrictions were somewhat lifted and I love the back story she gave of her husband telling her she better get her butt back home as war was indeed eminent. The most I ever had to deal with when traveling was finding a bathroom.
Without reading the full book, it sounds to me this chapter ends as a lead on for her short stories involving characters in her many books. I can't imagine how neat it would be to read these!
KEEP READING?
Absolutely! I think it's a novel idea to give your characters of other books a little limelight by creating stories around them. I've never heard of anyone doing this; quite unique! Yes, definitelyt going to finish this!
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