Loiacono Literary Agency has two outstanding new novel reviews in Publisher’s Weekly!
Authors Leta Serafim and Maris Soule are not only in the same edition, but also the same review page in the August edition of Publisher’s Weekly!
Maris Soule’s novel, A Killer Past, Published by ROBERT HALE LTD was released in June with incredible reviews.
Mary Harrington doesn’t want to revive her past. She certainly doesn’t want her son and granddaughter to know what she did forty-four years ago. But when two teenage gang members try to mug her, old habits are hard to forget. Sergeant Jack Rossini, Rivershore, Michigan’s lone investigative detective, initially doesn’t believe an “old” woman could have put the punks in the hospital, but once he meets Mary, he becomes curious. That curiosity grows when he discovers there’s no record of her existence prior to forty-four years ago. Mary and Jack’s lives continue to intersect as a gang the police have been investigating vows to teach Mary a lesson, and a man from Mary’s past arrives in Rivershore, threatening to reveal her secrets.
Maris Soule has had two mysteries in the P.J. Benson (Crows) series published by Five Star/Gale/Cengage, 25 category romances published by Harlequin, Silhouette, and Bantam, and a mini-mystery published by Woman’s World. Several of her romances were romantic suspense. Soule is a two-time RITA finalist, and her books have won or placed in several contests. A Killer Past was a finalist for the 2012 Claymore Award as well as a finalist (under a different title) in the 2012 Writers-Editors Network International Writing Competition. www.marissoule.com
Leta Serafim, author of The Devil Takes Half and its newly released sequel, When the Devil’s Idle, Published by Camel Press, has had a soft release with the official launch scheduled for September 1st!
The Devil Takes Half
An archaeological dig near a desolate monastery in Greece is no longer the innocent search for Minoans, the mysterious precursors to the Greek who disappeared without a trace more than 3500 years before; giving rise to the legend of Atlantis. A severed hand and what seems to be all the blood from the missing archaeologist, Eleni Argentis, is found in a trench and her teenage assistant, Petros, is found nearby with his throat slit.
On such a remote island, there are only so many suspects, then again, Yiannis Patronas, the policeman in charge of the investigation, finds all is not as it appears, and some secrets are as ancient as the site itself.
When the Devil’s Idle
When an elderly German is found with his skull bashed in on Patmos, the same isle St. John wrote the Apocalypse, Yiannis Patronas, Chief Officer of the Chios police, is called in to investigate. He asks his top detective, Giorgos Tembelos, and his friend and amateur sleuth, Papa Michalis to join him.
With only a handful of suspects on such an isolated island— the gardener, the housekeeper, the deceased’s son, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren— Patronas is limited, and yet even more challenged. Who is capable? Who has motive? Who wanted the old German dead? Why? Could the answers be immediate or far reaching?
Leta Serafim was a journalist at the Los Angeles Times Washington Bureau before moving to Greece, where she taught art and illustrated books. Upon her return to the United States, she wrote feature stories for the Boston Globe before trying her hand a fiction. She continues to spend her summers in Greece. She has two other novels coming out with in the next years: To Look on Death No More and From the Devil’s Farm, the third in the Greek mystery series. www.letaserafim.com