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REVIEW: Without a Sound by Carla Cassidy

Dear Ms Cassidy,

11978479.gifI’m always a little leery of reading suspense books. I tend to have a vivid imagination and that makes me wonder if the book will seem too realistic to me, especially if major aspects of my life are similar to that of victims in the book. I also don’t like to read the twisted, inner thoughts of villains nor do I care to read too graphic descriptions of blood and gore which often seem to be almost lovingly told. Nope, not for me. But your book strikes a nice balance between remaining suspenseful and weirding me out.

When two police officers arrive at Haley Lambert’s Las Vegas apartment, she just knows this isn’t going to be good news. What they tell her stuns and horrifies her: someone has brutally murdered her older sister. With only that information, Haley spends 10 hours pulling up stakes then takes a plane to Kansas City. She is now the only living relative of her eight year old niece and knowing that her rootless life is over terrifies Haley almost as much as taking over the care of Molly. But what’s worse is the news that Molly …

New Publishing Deals

We have a review of Without a Sound coming up next week.
Carla Bracale writing as Carla Cassidy’s BROKEN PIECES, about a victim of a brutal attack in her youth who returns home, hoping the depths of her memory might hold a clue to a murderer’s identity, to Laura Cifelli at Signet, in a three-book deal, by Laura Blake Peterson at Curtis Brown (NA).

Not an inspy reader but I know that there are many who love this line. Like my mother, who didn’t allow me to read regular romances but I was allowed to read inspy romances as a kid.
Irene Brand’s A MAN TO LEAN ON, to Harlequin Love Inspired, in a nice deal, by Deidre Knight of The Knight Agency.

Read about this over at mediacat today. Sarva promises to not stop picking on his now fellow authors.
Blogger Mark Sarvas’s HARRY, REVISED, about a guilt-ridden, down-on-his-luck widower, who tries to reinvent himself following his wife’s untimely death, to Colin Dickerman at Bloomsbury, for publication in winter 2008, by Simon Lipskar at Writers House (world English and German).

Don’t know what house Barbour is but this sounds like a WESTERN!!!
Paige Winship Dooly’s TREASURE IN THE HILLS, a story about …