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Blog Tour: The Ticket by Fred Shackelford

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I’m delighted to be hosting today’s stop on the blog tour for The Ticket, the debut mystery novel by Fred Shackelford.  The Ticket has at its heart what must be everyone’s dream, a massive lottery win.

WinVisit the tour page here to see the other great bloggers taking part in the tour and to enter the giveaway for a chance to win a $50 Amazon gift card courtesy of the author.

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The TicketAbout the Book

Channing Booker, a compulsive gambler, drug abuser, and philanderer whose marriage is failing, finally gets lucky and wins the Mega Millions lottery. Expecting an imminent divorce, and hoping to hide his new fortune from his wife Susan, Channing devises a scheme to have a friend claim the $241million jackpot and secretly return the money to Channing after the divorce is final. But Susan flees with all of her possessions, including the rare book in which Channing hid the winning lottery ticket.

With time running out before the lottery ticket expires, Channing launches a desperate search to find Susan, but she’s covered her tracks well, fearing his retribution. In need of money to fund her furtive new lifestyle, Susan begins selling off her worldly goods, including her rare books, unleashing a chain of events that puts not only her life in danger, but that of her new love as well…

Format: ebook, paperback (320 pp.)      Publisher: Black Opal Books
Published: December 2016                      Genre: Mystery, Suspense

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Publisher ǀ Amazon.co.uk  ǀ  Amazon.com  ǀ Hive.co.uk (supporting UK bookshops) *links provided for convenience, not as part of any affiliate programme

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Fred ShackelfordAbout the Author

Fred Shackelford is a Virginia attorney who lives on farmland that his great-great-grandfather purchased in 1817. Before writing his début novel The Ticket, he published Judges Say the Darndest Things, a collection of humorous excerpts from legal opinions. Fred is a graduate of the University of Virginia. The Ticket was a finalist for The Clue Awards from Chanticleer Book Reviews, a finalist for the National Indie Excellence Awards, and a quarterfinalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest.

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Blog Tour: The Swan’s Road by Garth Pettersen

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Historical fiction fans who adore a bit of 11th century Viking action will be interested in the book I’m featuring today – The Swan’s Road by Garth Pettersen.  Reviewers have described it as ‘adventurous and action-filled’, praised it for taking the reader into ‘a living, breathing eleventh century landscape’ with ‘fight scenes…compelling in their detail, and love scenes…delicately drawn’.

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The Swan's RoadAbout the Book

In the eleventh century, Cnute, the Viking king of Engla-lond and Scandinavia, sails with his son, Harald, and his shield brothers to Rome. Thrown off course by a storm, they follow the route up the Rhine. When Harald hangs back to assist Selia, a beautiful Frisian woman, his path turns perilous. Newfound enemies, retainers of Robert the Devil, Duke of Normandy, pursue them. Harald, Selia, and their companions fail to rendezvous with King Cnute, and are forced to travel cross-country on horseback. If Duke Robert’s plan to assassinate Cnute succeeds, an invasion of Engla-lond will follow. Can Harald and Selia reach Rome in time to warn the King?

Format: ebook (pp.)                        Publisher: Tirgearr Publishing
Published: 15th November 2017   Genre: Historical Fiction

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Amazon.co.uk ǀ  Amazon.com  ǀ Amazon.ca ǀ Barnes and Noble ǀ Kobo
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Garth PettersenAbout the Author

Garth Pettersen is a Canadian writer whose stories have appeared in a number of literary journals and anthologies. His story ‘River’s Rising’ was awarded an Honourable Mention for the Short Story America 2017 Prize, and his fantasy novella River Born was one of two runners-up in the Wundor Editions (UK) Short Fiction Prize. His debut historical novel, The Swan’s Road was released in November 2017, published by Tirgearr Publishing.

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