Handbags, Books...whatever welcomes author Joyce Woollcott, Her Favorite Book, and Her Book

      About Your Favorite Book:

Big Sky by Kate Atkinson. Jackson Brodie is back as the big-hearted private detective in this latest outing. Set in and around a faded English seaside town, he helps his daughter flee from the altar, talks down a man about to throw himself off a cliff, assists in the demise of a sex trafficking ring and frees an underage girl from her kidnapper. All this told with dry humor, wit, and humanity.

I bought the book as soon as it was released, possibly 2019-20? I bought it because I had been anticipating this latest mystery. At least one of her Jackson Brodie novels has been turned into a BBC TV series. All her books are fabulous, with five now in the Brodie series. I was sad to finish it and read it again from time to time. Always finding something new. 353 pages long.

 

About Your Book:

Book One in The DS Ryan McBride Mysteries.

The body of a young woman is found by a river outside Belfast and Detective Sergeant Ryan McBride makes a heart-wrenching discovery at the scene, a discovery he chooses to hide even though it could cost him the investigation – and his career.

The victim was a loner but well-liked. Why would someone want to harm her? And is her murder connected to a rapist who’s stalking the local pubs? As Ryan untangles a web of deception and lies, his suspects die one by one, leading him to a dangerous family secret and a murderer who will stop at nothing to keep it.

And still, he harbors his secret ...

A NICE PLACE TO DIE is due for release August/September 2022.

About the Author: J. Woollcott.

I was born in Belfast and now live in Canada. I’m a graduate of the post-grad course at

The Humber School for Writers and BCAD, University of Ulster. My first mystery, Abducted, was long-listed in the Canadian Arthur Ellis Awards in 2019. My second book, A Nice Place to Die, won the RWA Unpublished Mystery/Suspense Daphne du Maurier Award in 2019 in New York. A Nice Place to Die was also long-listed in the Arthur Ellis Awards for 2020 and short-listed in the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence in 2021. I’m working on part two of the Ryan McBride Belfast Murder Series, Blood Relations, due out in August 2023. I’m a member of Crime Writers of Canada, Sisters in Crime, International Thriller Writers, and the Southwest Florida Writer’s Guild.

Answer these questions:

Red, White, or Blue? White.

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter? Summer–definitely. Hot, blue skies, sitting outside in the garden with a glass of wine.

Cake or Pie? Pie, key lime, plum, Banoffee, and the list goes on. But Banoffee is the best. Bananas + toffee. A combination of textures and flavors, a cookie/biscuit or graham cracker crust with dulce de leche, bananas, and homemade whipped cream.

Coffee, Tea, or Champagne? Champagne of course.

Country music or Michael Buble? Michael Buble (and Van Morrison).

Pencil or Pen? Pencil. You can erase your mistakes.

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