BooksChatter: ☀ The Purse

Friday, 1 July 2016

☀ The Purse - Julie A. Burns

Thank you for joining us on the Virtual Book Tour for The Purse, an LBGT Mystery Thriller by Julie A. Burns (first published 8 May 2013; this edition 26 January 2016, Rambunctious Ramblings Publishing Inc., 278 pages).

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PREVIEW: Check out the book's synopsis and excerpt below. Read the first six chapters with Amazon Look Inside.

Author Julie A. Burns will be awarding a free Paperback copy of The Purse OR a eBook copy plus and additional eBook to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour.

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Synopsis | Teaser | Author Q&A | About the Author | Giveaway & Tour Stops

Synopsis

When Lydia Blackwell visits her dying father for the last time, he reveals the deeply hidden truth about her mother. After the funeral, the stranger Derek Meade gifts her with a gorgeous antique purse. But before she has the chance to connect with the man who knew her father intimately, Lydia finds Derek murdered in his home.

Lieutenant Sonja MacIntosh is assigned to investigate Mr. Meade’s death, but her career on the force never prepared her for Lydia Blackwell. As Sonja works to solve the murder, Lydia takes the greatest risk of her life in leaving Chicago to search for clues to her mother’s past. Their instant attraction surprises them both, but even through the chaos Lydia can’t deny the intensity of her feelings for the strong willed Lieutenant.

Lydia’s possession of the antique purse throws her already chaotic life into a whirlwind of kidnapping, blackmail, vengeful mob bosses, and mind-numbing revelations. Through it all, Lydia must find the strength to accept herself – and those closest to her – despite their darkest secrets.

Teaser: Excerpt

Chapter One

LYDIA QUICKLY PUT DOWN the phone, grabbed her keys, and raced outside to her car. She’d expected the news, but still the feeling was strange. William Blackwell was near the end of his life.Lydia climbed into her new Jeep Cherokee she had just bought the month before and sat at the steering wheel, lost in thought. For a brief moment, she hugged the steering wheel, put her head down, and cried.Finally, she sat back and dried her eyes. As the autumn leaves danced around her windshield, she saw her father’s face as she’d seen it so many autumns before. How he loved this time of year. Her father used to say it made him feel so alive, witnessing the changing of the seasons.If only he could feel that now. Lydia took a deep breath, put her car in reverse, and backed out of her driveway.
During the drive to Kenilworth, Lydia reflected on her father’s life, wondering what it all meant to him. She knew he would never tell her, but there had to be something missing. Rarely was there anyone of importance in the house, especially women. Lydia could only assume that her mother had been the real love of his life and he was just too devastated to ever marry again. Lydia had no memories of the woman.After all, she had only been three years old at the time of her mother’s fatal car accident. The void left by Cassandra Lexington Blackwell’s absence, however, was one that Lydia felt every day of her life. [...]

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About the Author

Julie A. Burns is a native Iowan born in Marshalltown, Iowa and raised in Davenport, Iowa.

After her parent’s divorce at age 7, she took to writing, whether it was her diary or poems about people she met or situations that bothered her. After graduating from high school in 1983, she spent time working as a Nurse’s Aide in different nursing homes in Iowa. In 1989, she gave birth to a daughter, Brittany and raised her as a single parent. In the same year, she enrolled at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. She graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology in 1994.

Since then, Julie has spent time working with developmentally disabled adults and the mentally ill throughout Iowa and also in Wyoming, where she lived for 6 years. Julie currently lives in Waterloo, Iowa with her spouse.

When she’s not writing, she enjoys being a grandmother to 3 year old Sophie.

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