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The Cottage: A McLaren Mystery by Jo A. Hiestand | $20 Gift Card #BookReview #Excerpt #BritishMystery @GoddessFish @JoHiestand

"The Cottage" by Jo A. Hiestand is a must-read for British Mystery enthusiasts, offering an engaging blend of mystery, character development, and a touch of romance that keeps readers eagerly turning the pages. Pick up a copy today to get hooked on the fascinating McLaren British Mysteries. $20 Gift Card #BookReview #Excerpt #BritishMystery @GoddessFish @JoHiestand #McLarenMysteries

The Cottage: A McLaren Mystery by Jo A. Hiestand| $20 Gift Card #BookReview #Excerpt #BritishMystery @GoddessFish @JoHiestand A book blog tour from Goddess Fish Promotions. Thank you to the author, publisher, and Marianne & Judy at Goddess Fish for providing me with the information for this tour.   “The Cottage” by Jo A. Hiestand is a must-read for British Mystery enthusiasts, offering an…

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REVIEW

OVERDUE (McLaren Mystery) by Jo A. Hiestand at The Reading Cafe:

‘detailed, complex, intriguing, entertaining’

http://www.thereadingcafe.com/overdue-mclaren-mysteries-17-by-jo-a-heistand-a-review/

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An Interview with Jo A. Hiestand and Excerpt from The Low Road

An interview with author JO A. Hiestand and excerpt from The Low Road

The McLaren Mysteries   British mystery Date Published: Sept 19, 2022   About The Low Road Former police detective Michael McLaren arrives in Scotland, ready to immerse himself in the fun of the Highland Games and to enjoy a holiday with Melanie. But the old saying of plans oft going awry rears its ugly head: Simon Shaw, a member of McLaren’s folk group, dies. Murdered a year to the day…

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Black Moon Week Blitz

Black Moon Week Blitz

Book 11 of the McLaren Mystery series British mystery Date Published: August 2019 Publisher: Cousins House

Each April the members of a mystery writing group gather on Stanton Moon for camaraderie and to fuel their plots. The moody area seems the perfect setting for hatching a whodunit. Unfortunately, an unscripted mystery materializes like an unsolicited manuscript on a…

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Haunted Water by Jo A. Hiestand GENRE: British mystery BLURB Cameron Rutter drowned two months ago in a lake on a Cheshire moor. Some say a morgen—a spirit who drags men to a watery grave—was respo…

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Good old-fashioned mystery, thriller & suspense: Facebook Groups

Good old-fashioned mystery, thriller & suspense: Facebook Groups

I found a new Facebook Group today. Its full title is Authors & Readers…good old-fashioned mystery, thriller & suspense

  I found three books that I wanted to buy, which is great–and then not so great, as my TBR list is reaching halfway to heaven! I’ll try to remember to let you know what I think. Though with so many distractions, I don’t know if I’ll manage it! Anyway, these are the books.

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A Tasty British Murder Mystery for a Wintry Day

Novel Magic and Goddess Fish Promotions present: Arrested Flight by Jo Hiestand

  It’s my pleasure to highlight a wonderful British mystery series by an author I’ve actually met in person! Arrested Flightis the latest McLaren Mystery by Jo Hiestand.  Now this is cool in a couple of ways. First, I did meet Jo at a Scottish festival in St. Louis a couple of years ago, and Second, my husband’s clan…

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Duo Albireo, Webster University, 12 November 2017

I had this concert on my radar even before it was finally set and before one piece was even finished.  I knew I wanted to see friend Bob Chamberlin’s thematic work to accompany a mystery novel by Jo Hiestand.  Bob’s work is always clever and intelligent.  And he had introduced me to Jo as I started thinking about writing my own mystery.

Bob’s piece would have been enough, but I was struck by the coherence of the program, the interplay of the works which illuminated one another in smart ways.

I followed up on a New York Times appreciation of Amy Beach over the summer on the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of her birth this year.  That she had written piano Variations on Balkan Themes and a Gaelic Symphony intrigued  me.  Today they performed her Suite for Two Pianos, Founded on Old Irish Melodies.  As with the Balkan Themes, the connection is thematic and suggestive rather than a Ralph Vaughn Williams approach of borrowing melodies to embellish.  The Gaelic Symphony does evoke specific songs but it is still not quite Name That Tune.  The Suite was adventurous yet grounded in a 19th Century approach.  

What Jo gave Bob was a UK mystery so he used some Celtic elements as well as a hymn and an evocation of Morse code.  The page turners used soft mallets on bass strings in the third part and, though very Bob-ish, the performers evoked fairies by visibly handing the melody back and forth to one another.  At the end, they handed it to us.  The opening section borrowed from Liszt.  It was informed piece and, though I had the information, it was warm and accessible without the foreknowledge.

If Bob’s piece was programmatic, then of course Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story evoked the entire musical with its 9 parts.  Those parts, framed around the dance numbers/gang competitions, were very movement oriented.

So the Bernstein was also connected to William Brilcolm’s evocation of both Latin American dance and Louis-Moreau Gottshcalk.  He was one of several Ragtime composers including Scott Joplin who viewed their music as serious, in the European Art Music tradition (what we reflexively and inaccurately call Classical Music).  This music, like the rest, was given space to breath and be listened too afresh.  Bricolm wove both elements together in a subtle yet evocative way.  For him, they were seasonings in the service of his art.  

But they were dances as were Bernstein’s.  That work, the entire after intermission portion of the show, was at once programmatic, light on its feet, and yet surprisingly modern and experimental.  It was definitely show and story telling, but this was NOT the stuff of a soundtrack recording.  It had its dense and experimental moments, definite themes but, again, not like an overture and definitely without the feel of production numbers.

Duo Albireo is Pat Eastman and Donna Vince.  They played well and they planned well.

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REVIEW

OVERDUE (McLaren Mystery) by Jo A. Hiestand at The Reading Cafe:

‘detailed, complex, intriguing, entertaining’

http://www.thereadingcafe.com/overdue-mclaren-mysteries-17-by-jo-a-heistand-a-review/

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➜ #AudioTour #Giveaway Author: Jo A. Hiestand Narrator: Steve Hart Length: 8 hours 32 minutes Series: The McLaren Mysteries, Book 3 Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Released: Nov. 30, 2019 Genre: Mystery

Janet Ennis tragically died five years ago in what the police labeled an accidental fire. But Janet’s mother, Nora, believes it to be murder and arson. And she’s hoping ex-cop Michael McLaren can prove it quickly, for she’s losing her memory to dementia. As McLaren pokes through the case details, he becomes emotionally involved with the dead woman. Yet, Janet isn’t the only person who threatens his mental well-being. A series of arsons on his own property hint that he’s upset someone connected with this case. Motives for Janet’s murder rise like the smoky tendrils of a fire. And motive aside, the murder scene seems a bit too pat: a drought-stricken landscape eager to lap up flames and a conveniently locked door barring Janet’s escape. Will McLaren solve the case while Nora can still comprehend the resolution, or will Harvester’s plans see McLaren’s career go up in smoke?

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