Trouble Brewing

Happy Easter everyone!  I hope, despite the pretty dodgy weather we’re having here in glamorous Manchester, that the Easter bunny called.

I had a nice surprise just before Easter, in the form of an email from the publisher, Severn House.  The US Library Journal has picked seven Severn House books (if you see what I mean) out of the nine historical mysteries they’re recommending as hot summer reads.  And (der, der) Trouble Brewing, Jack’s latest, is amongst them.

Wow.

Trouble Brewing is out at the end of this month in the UK and in August in the US, but if any American reader fancies a copy before then, you can order a copy from the “Books” section of the website.

What I really want to tell you is that it’s a brilliant book, dead clever with a knock-out plot and ace characters, one of whom is a real Bentley Boy, all fast cars and life-on-the-edge, madly glamorous and incredibly good looking, but that sounds a bit like blowing my own  trumpet.  Ah well.

Here’s the link to the Library Journal list for the nine books:  Historical Mysteries.

And this is what they said about Trouble Brewing.

Gordon-Smith, Dolores. Trouble Brewing. Severn House. Aug. 2012. 256p. ISBN 9780727881694. $28.95.

Appropriate title: Mark Helston has made a success of himself at Hunt Coffee Limited. Then, in January 1925, he vanishes after leaving his Albemarle Street flat, and, Scotland Yard’s shoulder shrug be damned, his uncle asks series regular Jack Haldean to find him. Instead, Jack finds trouble—and we’re not talking competition from Starbucks.