Reviewed By Liz

Today’s featured author is Vicki Delaney. Vicki is the author of two stand-alone psychological suspense novels and an upcoming small-town police procedural series.

IN THE SHADOW OF THE GLACIER, trouble is brewing in the small, bucolic mountain town of Trafalgar, British Columbia. An American who came to Trafalgar as a Vietnam War draft dodger has left land and money to the town but there’s a catch: the money must be used to build a garden to honor draft dodgers. This bequest has torn the close-knit, peaceful town apart. Then the body of a leading opponent is found in an alley, dead from a single blow to the head.

BURDEN OF MEMORY - September 1939. A beautiful Irish maid realizes that her scheming has led to a fatal mistake. A strong-willed nursing sister prepares to head for Europe, and war.

September 2006. A biographer arrives at a grand, historic cottage on Muskoka’s Millionaires’ Row to assist the matriarch of the wealthy Madison family with the writing of her memoirs.

Moira Madison was born to a luxurious childhood, raised between the wars as the pampered daughter of a wealthy family. But she was determined to make her own life for herself and served as a Nursing Sister in the Canadian Army during World War Two and international aid worker for many years after. Her story is a fascinating one, her personality even more so, and Elaine Benson is eager to dive into the research. But the original biographer died her first week on the job, and something is moving in the dark woods beyond reach of the sparkling lights of the great home.

SCARE THE LIGHT AWAY - After thirty years of attempting to escape her past Rebecca McKenzie comes back to the little town in Northern Ontario where she was raised, to attend her mother’s funeral. But the past will not be forgotten.

Vicki can be found on the internet atwww.vickidelany.com. Vicki blogs at www.typem4murder.blogspot.com

And you can find interviews with Vicki at authortrek.com, spinetinglermag.com, and juliabuckley.blogspot.com.

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