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AUDIO BOOK - 'SMOKE & CRACKED MIRRORS'

3/1/2023

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Published: 'Smoke & CRacked Mirrors'
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The audiobook of Smoke & Cracked Mirrors is now published.  
​Happy Listening!
BUY HERE
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New Release!

15/11/2022

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Published: 'Dancing With Dusty Fossils'

And she's launched!
My 10th book - Dancing With Dusty Fossils - is now available to buy on Amazon!
If my American readers have any spare time over the Thanksgiving Holiday, I'd cheekily like to suggest that this is the perfect read! Either way, I hope all of you have a lovely time with your family and friends during Thanksgiving.
I loved writing and researching for this novel and I honestly think it is one of the best mysteries I have ever written.  The research itself threw up some surprising discoveries (I'll tell you more about that in later newsletters) and the writing process was a dream.
After ten books, I've now decided I'd make a good circus juggler if I ever wanted to change career.  There are three mysteries at the heart of Dusty Fossils and In the past I've tied myself in knots juggling multiple storylines. It's getting easier now.  
But as ever, my reader, YOU are the most important judge of a book's success...it's over to you now. 
And if you do like Dusty Fossils, please remember to leave me a review on Amazon.


Blurb: 

York, England: June 1940
While Jemma continues to search for her missing husband, the citizens of historic York are shocked by a series of vicious crimes at the city’s two museums.
A bungled break-in at the Yorkshire Museum is quickly followed by the brutal murder of Lance Richards, a sub-curator at the neighbouring Castle Museum.
The main suspect is Anthony Gill, a quiet and unprepossessing clerk. But Gill doesn’t have an alibi and is uncooperative with the police. His desperate lawyer hires Jemma and Bobbie from Smoke & Cracked Mirrors to prove his innocence.
Meanwhile, the two women are led a merry dance by Jodie, a famous and spirited actress, whose aristocrat husband wants evidence for a divorce.
As the nation waits nervously to hear the fate of their sons and brothers trapped at Dunkirk, a twisting series of events whisk Jemma and Bobbie through the glamourous world of the starlet, down corridors of dusty fossils and into terrifying danger.
Vengeful passions and a dark crime lie beneath the civilised veneer of those elders who preserve our history.
But if Anthony Gill didn’t murder Lance Richards, who did – and why?
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'Smoke & Cracked Mirrors' Audiobook

17/10/2022

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UPDATE: Audiobook News

'SMOKE & CRACKED MIRRORS' AUDIOBOOK
Huzzah! There's finally some news about the audiobook of 'Smoke & Cracked Mirrors'.
It should be published on the 27th DECEMBER 2022.
The lovely Corrie James has been chosen as narrator for the series. I'm delighted; she speaks beautifully - and can do a Yorkshire accent too!
With two female lead characters in my York Ladies' Detective Agency Mysteries, it was important to me that I had a female narrator for this series and the fact that her surname is the same as Jemma's is purely coincidental!
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'The Willow MarsH Murder' reduced to $0.99/£0.99

16/9/2022

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WHOPPING GREAT BIG SALE!

Book #6 in the Detective Lavender Mysteries, The Willow Marsh Murder, has been accepted for prestigious International Bookbub promotion (99cents/pence) on Saturday 17th September.
So my publishers and I have decided to put all my other books and short stories on promotion at the same time! 


This promotion will be in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia and will run for a week. An ideal time to fill any gaps in your Karen Charlton library!

The Willow Marsh Murder - 99p/cents
Smoke & Cracked Mirrors - £1.99/$1.99
Catching the Eagle - £1.99/$1.99
Detective Lavender short stories - 99p/99cents
Books# 1-5 of The Detective Lavender Mysteries - reduced in the UK


The audiobook of The Willow Marsh Murder is also reduced to $3.99 on Chirp - Bookbub's partner site on Saturday 17th September.
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250,000 sales for 'Heiress'!

20/8/2022

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'The Heiress of Linn Hagh' Sells a Quarter of a Million!

I've recently received the good news from my publishers that The Heiress of Linn Hagh has now sold a quarter of a million copies worldwide!
​I'm absolutely delighted and doing my happy dance around the kitchen!
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PUBLICATION DAY!

15/4/2022

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SMOKE & CRACKED MIRRORS

It's finally here!
'Smoke & Cracked Mirrors', my first new novel for two years, is finally published!
A new book, set in a new era with brand new characters!
I sincerely hope that everyone who takes a chance on this new series, thoroughly enjoys it.
Please let me know via a review what you think. xx
https://geni.us/TcUcZH9
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Cover Reveal: 'Dancing With Dusty F ossils'

5/4/2022

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'Dancing With Dusty Fossils'
Published: 15th November 2022

Yes, it's crazy, isn't it?
Smoke & Cracked Mirrors, the first novel in my York Ladies' Detective Agency Mystery series, won't be published until next week...but the second book, Dancing With Dusty Fossils, is already available for pre-order on Amazon - and I have a book cover for it!
But there's method in my madness. I always knew I needed to have Dusty Fossils up on Amazon before Smoke & Cracked Mirrors was published, in order to capture further sales from happy readers. Fortunately, my lovely cover designer, Lisa Horton, was able to move straight from Book#1 to Book#2 - and this is the result.
I do hope you like it.
My son's talented partner, Lorena, took the background photograph of the Yorkshire Museum. I love how she captured the shadows and the gleam of the honeyed stone of this early-Victorian building.
Anyway, Dancing With Dusty Fossils will be published on 15th November 2022 - just in time for the Thanksgiving break. 
For those of you who still have faith in me as a writer, it is now available to pre-order on Amazon and you can buy it below.
​It's reduced to the special low price of $2.99/£2.99 for one week only! 
https://geni.us/DNQVJw8
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Cover Reveal: Smoke & Cracked Mirrors

27/1/2022

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Smoke & Cracked Mirrors

I'm delighted to reveal the book cover for my brand new novel, Smoke & Cracked Mirrors, the first full-length book in The York Ladies' Detective Agency Mysteries.
As usual it was created and designed by the lovely Lisa Horton - and the fabulous background image of The Shambles was taken by Yorkshire photographer, David Zdanowicz.
I stumbled across this photograph completely by accident. I was googling photographs of York earlier in the day...and then, Lo and Behold! this brilliant photo turned up in the middle of my Facebook newsfeed! I tracked down Dave and bought a licence from him to use it on my book cover.
I've heard a lot of rumours over the years that Mark Zuckerberg can read our minds through Facebook. If this is true, then yes, it's a bit spooky - but it definitely worked to my advantage this time!
The Shambles is York's most famous medieval street and normally it's heaving with tourists. I understand Dave went just after dawn to take this photograph while it was empty.
I absolutely love this book cover and I hope you do too. I think Lisa's done a great job.
https://geni.us/TcUcZH9 
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News: 'Willow Marsh' Audiobook Published

31/12/2021

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I'm delighted to announce that the audiobook of The Willow Marsh Murder is now published and available to buy on Amazon. 
I know many of my fans have been waiting a long time for this day.
​I sincerely hope you all enjoy Michael Page narrating this latest instalment of Lavender and Woods' adventures. 
Buy 'The Willow Marsh Murder' Audiobook Here
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News: 'Smoke & Cracked Mirrors' available for pre-order

4/12/2021

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It's been a long time a-coming!
I'm excited to announce that the eBook of SMOKE & CRACKED MIRRORS, the first full-length novel in my York Ladies' Detective Agency Mystery Series, is now available for pre-order on Amazon.
It will be published on 15th April 2022 and the book cover will be uploaded in January.

York, England: 1940
‘An unsuitable job for a woman…’
When her husband goes ‘missing in action’, Jemma James returns to the city of her birth to set up a private detective agency with her best friend, Roberta ‘Bobbie’ Baker, with whom she shares a passionate love of Golden Age crime fiction.
These two enterprising young women soon find themselves embroiled in a series of mysterious cases, shadowing blackmailers and bigamists, and investigating the perplexing history of a wealthy young woman who seems determined to wipe out her past. And it’s not long before they stumble across an unsolved murder.
But the dead don’t stay dead for long in historic York.
As the ‘phoney war’ draws to a close, and the sky above the soaring twin towers of the twelfth century Minster darkens with menace, Jemma learns that even she is not above suspicion in wartime York.
Pre-order 'Smoke & Cracked Mirrors' here
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