☀☄ Riverside Lane - Ginger Black

Thank you for joining us on the Virtual Book Tour for Riverside Lane, a Cosy Mystery by Ginger Black (25 January 2016, Endeavour Press, 260 pages).

Don't miss our interview with authors Ginger Black.

PREVIEW: Check out the book's synopsis and the Kindle Cloud Reader Preview below. Riverside Lane is FREE on Kindle Unlimited and Kindle Owner's Lending Library.

Authors Ginger Black will be awarding a $10 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour.   Please do take part: comment on our post and follow the tour where you will be able to read other excerpts (☀), interviews (ℚ), reviews (✍) and guest blog posts (✉).

|| Synopsis || Kickstarter Trailer || Teaser: KCR Preview || Author Q&A || About the Author || Giveaway & Tour Stops ||

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Synopsis

After arranging a house swap with a debonair antiques dealer, a darkly handsome American named Luca Tempesta arrives in a quaint English village. Tempesta, who claims to run a detective agency in Los Angeles, is supposedly on holiday – but the inhabitants of the village are unconvinced.

Yet, as they attempt to solve the mystery of the stranger in their midst, it gradually transpires that there are more than enough secrets to go around in the village itself, harboured by the local MP and his uptight, ambitious wife; the has-been former game show host; the respectable couple with the jailbird son; the hometown journalist, striving for a scoop that will rescue her from debt; and so on. The place is revealed as a labyrinth of deception masquerading as a picture-postcard hamlet; tension begins to mount in between the dinner parties and evenings at the pub, and soon culminates in an unexpected death.

Behind perfect privets and brightly painted front doors, the lives of Riverside Lane’s residents slowly unravel. Tempesta, guarding his secrets with a vengeance, is suddenly threatened with exposure by the elderly religious zealot Ivy Midwinter, whose own past involved keeping professional confidences. When she challenges him in church, she learns that Tempesta will stop at nothing to protect his privacy ...

Set against the exquisite backdrop of a gastronomic village by the Thames, Riverside Lane is a tautly paced page-turner that also gently satirises middle- class English manners: the upstanding denizens of the village watch and whisper behind a mask of English hauteur, whilst their own fragile lives come undone.

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Teaser: KCR Preview

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About the Authors

Ginger Black is a writing partnership between Gaynor Pengelly and Julia Thum.

Gaynor Pengelly has worked as a national newspaper correspondent for more than twenty years, interviewing everyone from the great and the good to extraordinary people in ordinary lives. The rich variety of her subject matter and their circumstances has given her a rare insight into human nature and the challenges many people face.

Gaynor's great loves include sitting in pavement cafes watching the world go by, National Trust and English Heritage and hiking across the windswept Yorkshire moors. She lives in Bray-on-Thames with her husband Jonathan and their son, Freddie James.

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Julia Thum left Somerset for London at 16. She founded & ran her own consumer P R agency representing a range of international brands including Braun, Molton Brown, Clairol & Kleenex. After selling the business she trained as a psychotherapist specializing in eating disorders & hosted a phone-in show on Radio Luxembourg.

Julia writes bespoke literature & articles for private clients and visits secondary schools & prisons representing two national charities in providing emotional support to pupils & inmates.

A keen kayaker and a passionate cook, she lives in Bray-on-Thames with her husband Nicolas and their four children.

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Giveaway and Tour Stops

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May 18: Fabulous and Brunette
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Jun 1: Queen of All She Reads
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Jun 15: Lisa Haselton's Reviews and Interviews
Jun 22: Books, Dreams,Life
Jun 22: Booklove ✍
Jun 29: The Avid Reader
Jun 29: Straight From the Library
Jul 13: A Fold in the Spine ✍
Jul 13: BooksChatter
Jul 20: EskieMama and Dragon Lady Reads
Jul 27: Long and Short Reviews
Aug 3: Sharing Links and Wisdom
Aug 10: Jane Reads ✍
Aug 17: Readeropolis
Aug 24: Hope. Dreams. Life... Love
Aug 31: Laurie's Thoughts and Reviews
Sep 7: It's Raining Books

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