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First trade review is in for Poppy from Kirkus!
"History, suspense, and an appealing heroine combine in a series debut that should attract war buffs and many others."
POPPY REDFERN AND THE MIDNIGHT MURDERS by Tessa Arlen | Kirkus Reviews
Edwardian specialist Arlen (Death of an Unsung Hero, 2018, etc.) leaps forward 25 years to showcase a dedicated wartime volunteer who learns that the real danger in her hometown is not from the enemy ...Happy Book Birthday! Looking forward to reading this one.
Happy day, Tessa Arlen🥂🍾😎
Congrats!!
We are more than excited--because look what came today! The ARC of POPPY REDFERN AND THE MIDNIGHT MURDERS. Thank you Berkley Publishing Group
Want to win a free copy?
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/295620-poppy-redfern-and-the-midnight-murders
Yes, so happy can’t wait to get a copy🎉🎉🎉
Congratulations!
How thrilling! 😊👍
Love the cover! Been trying to win an ARC but so far no luck. Bet that rush of getting them in the mail never grows old!
Love it 😍❤
Definitely!👍📚👍
I want to win a copy...I really do
Corgis!!! Awwwww.
Some interesting reviews on #NetGalley for #PoppyRedfernAndTheMidnightMurders
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Please admire my new Facebook banner from Berkley Publishing Group Marketing. So sharp!
Just thirteen days left to win a free copy from Berkley Publishing Group in THE POPPY REDFERN AND THE MIDNIGHT MURDERS giveaway on Goodreads!.
Enter to win one of 50 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Jul 26-Aug 24, 2019. Charming and feisty Poppy Redfern stumbles into murder in this exc...I never win. But I always enter.
Hoping I win, I was number 10 in the sign up... hopping on Goodreads like a rabbit on date night 😎😂
Another chance to win a free copy of POPPY REDFERN AND THE MIDNIGHT MURDERS and these other fantastic titles by Victoria Thompson, Eliza Casey, Sherry Thomas and Bella Ellis from Berkley Publishing Group
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Enter for a chance to win some of Berkley's upcoming fall historical mysteries!Just what I need. I'm looking forward to some of these.
My publisher is giving away 50 copies of the ARC for POPPY REDFERN AND THE MIDNIGHT MURDERS.
Enter here to win a copy -promise you will review?Enter to win one of 50 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Jul 26-Aug 24, 2019. Charming and feisty Poppy Redfern stumbles into murder in this exc...Entered fingers very crossed will review
I promise! I enjoy reviewing books. Please send me a copy.
Wow ! I just found added this to my TBR list xoxo
Thanks for the heads up! Entered 😊
I am so hoping to get an ARC and review on my blog.
Sounds fantastic and yes, I always review now.
I've entered and would love to review!
Thank you
I will!
Not only will I review on Goodreads..but on my blog as well, here's my latest review talesfromthebookdragon.wordpress.com/2019/08/06/mystery-monday-5/
Looking forward to your new book. Best wishes!
If I win I will deg review
Yes! I always post reviews on Amazon Goodreads and now Bookbub
If I can actually hold the book I would read and write a review
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Promise to leave a review
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I am looking forward to reading it
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Poppy Redfern and the Midnight Murders will be out on Audio --November 2019!
Poppy Redfern and the Midnight Murders
Summer 1942. The world has been at war for three long and desperate years. In the remote English village of Little Buffenden, Poppy Redfern’s family house and farmland have been requisitioned by the...I can't wait!
Yes can’t wait
My blog for my new historical mystery series: Poppy Redfern a Woman of WWII is up on my website!
Blog: 20th Century Redoubtables |
We were raised on stories of the Blitz in London. My father was given a thrashing because he and his cousin sat up on the roof of their house in Greenwich with their Spam sandwiches to watch a dogfigh...It is in paperback and ebook. You can find it anywhere: ask your local bookseller to order it for you. And your local library.
Is it in book form I hope. Would love to read it. I will buy a copy if I can find it.
I think you mean "... a WomAn of WWII..."
It seems incredible that we are now in our second year in this delightful old Spanish town. I love our neighborhood with its pueblo style homes, earth colored walls and delightful gates and entrances. And yes, one of those gates belongs to our house! Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Consider it. I tend to avoid Albuquerque but Santa Fe is quite beautiful, and the surrounding high desert breathtaking (if you like that sort of things!)
It is such a charming place. Glad you are enjoying life in one of the loveliest towns I know
Wow! I didn't realize how gorgeous that town is! Exquisite! What's the weather like?😎
Wonderful place to live. Just beautiful.
I love gates.....they are magic portals ;)
It really is a beautiful town. Our visit there was so wonderful!
I was in New Mexico once but sadly didn't get a chance to get down here. It remains on my list of places I must see!
Visited years ago and loved it.
Lovely gates.
They are all beautiful...which one is yours...
beautiful
Is this in Mexico ??
I am delighted to announce that Berkley have bought my new historical fiction: IN ROYAL SERVICE TO THE QUEEN. Based on the little-known true story of Marion Crawford, who spent sixteen years in service to the British royal family as the beloved governess of young princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, and whose troubled relationship with the Queen ultimately forces her to choose between her loyalty to the crown and her own happiness. Coming 2021!
Congratulations! I look forward to reading it
Oh, wow, that's fantastic! I read her book The Little Princesses (and its sequel) so many times growing up.
Should be very interesting. Congratulations looking forward to reading this.
Congratulations! I cannot wait to read your book!
Fabulous news! Congratulations!
Congratulations! Sound very intriguing, to boot!
Wonderful! Congratulations! 😊
Fantastic! Congratulations, Tessa!
Huge congratulations, Tessa! Wonderful news xx
Congratulations. Look forward to your book
Congratulations on your success. I love Britain and its history. Can’t wait to see your book. 👏
How exciting for you!!! Congratulations....
Congratulations
Congratulations
Congratulations!
That’s fabulous! Congratulations!
That's wonderful! Congratulations, Tessa!
Congratulations!!! Sounds like something I will enjoy reading. How did you find out about this woman? Sounds fascinating.
Wow! So happy for you...we readers are waiting! BTW...Congratulations!
Looking forward to reading!
I say, that’s jolly brilliant 😁🥰 When may we preorder 👏🏻👏🏻
It should be good . Wasn’t Crawford the nanny who wrote a memoir and was cut off from the family?
I am looking forward to reading it. Elizabeth and Margaret were my heroes back in the 40s because they were so brave to stay in London and work on jeeps during WWII.
Congrats!
So look forward to this read.
“Absolutely smashing! Arlen pens a dynamite beginning to a new series, filled with wartime suspense, skillfully wrought emotions, and a liberal dash of romance. Readers will fall in love with clever and quirky Poppy Redfern and the colorful villagers of Little Buffenden, as well as their dashing new neighbors—the American Airmen.” – Anna Lee Huber, bestselling author of the Lady Darby Mysteries
Wow👍👏 what a fabulous review! Xxx
I can’t wait to read this. Congratulations on the great review!!!!!!
Since Anna Lee Huber is one of my all-time favorite authors, this is high praise. It is a definite read for me.
Congratulations
Cool cover...thanks
Looking forward to reading this!
Cannot wait.
Boom goes the dynamite 🤣 congratulations
Great photo, love it!
Beautiful shot.
Beautiful
You look amazing especially the wine eyes.😉
Lovely!!
Oh please admire my new website! It has just been given a thorough going over to include the new mystery series: Poppy Redfern: A Woman of World War II! www.tessaarlen.com/
Beautifully done! Looking forward to Poppy Redfern,
Fabulous website! Can’t wait to read all the books and you look stunning, my friend!! Xxx
Love it, and sharing. 👍
I have and love the website!
Love it.
Looks good!
Great site.
Looks good! I’m looking forward to reading Poppy’s first adventure
I just put this book on my list! Thank you for sharing!
Very nice. Can't wait for Poppy. Question: is Poppy an ongoing character, or will a different 'Woman of World War II' be featured in each successive book?
We are assembling Poppy Redfern and the Midnight Murders for release on November 5, 2019! Events are being organized, and I am delighted to say that I will be visiting Murder by the Book in Houston, TX and The Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale, AZ in November. More details to follow!
You are living the good life ...enjoy
Baby gardens can be a bit of a challenge: first year sleep, second year creep and third year leap. BUT yesterday this gorgeous rose unfurled its first bloom in the hot sun, and I sat next to it all afternoon! Golden Celebration lives up to its name with an exquisite scent and such rich color
Lovely!
Beautiful!!!!
Love the color!!!
It’s beautiful! The deer ate all my baby roses down to the ground. 😢
So beautiful!
Gorgeous 💕
Stunning!
The perfect rose
That is magnificent!
BEAUTIFUL 😍😍
It's a stunner! Love the sleep, creep, and leap meme.
David Austin roses are the best!
Wow! Gorgeous!
That’s absolutely gorgeous!!
We have resumed our early (very early) morning walk with the dogs at Frijoles trail head. The views of the Jemez and Sangre de Cristos mountains are incredible, and the dogs get to chase rabbits (unsuccessfully) and feel macho.
Beautiful! And it sounds like everyone is happy!
What a trail and view
Lovely! Xxx
What a beautiful morning walk! 🙂
When I think of living in England again --this is the house that always springs to mind. A bit grandiose perhaps--but it doesn't hurt to dream big! Do you daydream of beautiful houses?
I think you would fit very nicely in this modest but beautiful house!! Xxx
i totally dream of a big beautiful house!!! so tired of tiny cramped places - i designed my dream house with plenty of space and room for company!!!
My friend grew up in a house just like that in Forest Hills Gardens, New York.
I just saw the movie "All Is True" today, and serious envy for Shakespeare's house.....
I daydream about tiny cottages with rose gardens in coastal villages where I can ride my bike. Nothing grandiose but definitely idyllic. But there is always a spare room for company.
Having grown up in a big old house (not at all elegant, just big), my first reaction is “oh no! So much to clean). You need a crew to clean a house like that and almost no one can find or afford staff. We kids were the cleaners in our house - dusting baseboards, sweeping 21 rooms, washing windows, etc.
Oh I love it, you are so right it doesn’t hurt to dream.
A big house with a big library. That’s my dream.
Oh, YES !!!
Yes!
Poppy Redfern my protagonist in POPPY REDFERN AND THE MIDNIGHT MURDERS is an Air Raid Precautions warden in England in WWII. So what was it like living in a world that was 'blacked out' every night when even the flare of a lit match or the glow of a cigarette could be spotted by the German Luftwaffe (air force) from above?
Walking home from work in winter would be a laborious business without street lights. The edges of sidewalks were painted with luminous paint so that motor vehicles with their blinkered headlights did not mount the curb and knock pedestrians down, but the number of road accidents increased exponentially during the war. With a shortage of policemen muggings and burglaries increased, and in large cities no woman went out at night on her own.I remember the air raids well during the war pretty scary this was in new England.
Really looking forward to it!
I lived in Nova Scotia and rememer the blackouts and lived through explosions there, when I was a child. It never goes away. But we lived through it and made new lives. I still scream at night Im told but I cant bare to remember the dreams. And thats a good thing I suppose.
I guess thats because Ireland had been under seige and enslaved by the Brits for seven hundred years and just didnt have the heart to care anymore. Erin Go Braugh.🍀🎻
The Republic of Ireland officially was neutral during the war. Thus, they didn't observe the blackout mandate. So, the Luftwaffe simply followed the lights up the island and bombed the crap out of the Belfast shipyards and other war-related areas. When ROI areas caught fire, for whatever reason, fire brigades in border counties in the North refused to respond.
If I had lived in those days...and maybe I did in another life....I would still be in the closet or under the bed...
I remember we had blackout curtains in Chicago during wwII.
Can't wait to read it.
Please tell me you're working on a new series.
My Dad was one in Queens NY
Sounds intriguing
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