{"id":3384,"date":"2022-06-27T13:15:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T17:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/?p=3384"},"modified":"2022-06-27T13:15:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T17:15:20","slug":"new-genre-fiction-by-charlotte-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/blog\/2022\/06\/27\/new-genre-fiction-by-charlotte-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"New Genre Fiction by Charlotte Authors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Charlotte is home to a number of successful authors who specialize in writing genre fiction, and three of them have new releases.\u00a0 These include Kathy Reichs\u2019s latest thriller\/mystery titled Cold, Cold Bones<\/em>, Cheris Hodges\u2019s new romance novel titled Can\u2019t Hide Love, <\/em>and Nancy Northcott\u2019s historical fantasy titled The Merlin Club. <\/em>All three of these releases are out in time for readers to enjoy during their summer vacations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scheduled for release on July 5, Cold, Cold Bones<\/em> is part of Kathy Reichs\u2019s Temperance Brennan Series.\u00a0 The author\u2019s website leads off with the following announcement of the book\u2019s publication: \u201cKathy Reichs returns with her twenty-first novel of suspense featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan who, after receiving a box containing a human eyeball, uncovers a series of gruesome killings eerily reenacting the most shocking of her prior cases.\u201d For more information about Cold, Cold Bones<\/em>, please click on the following link:\u00a0 https:\/\/kathyreichs.com\/cold-cold-bones\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation is sponsoring a kick-off event to celebrate the release of Cold, Cold Bones.\u00a0 <\/em>Titled \u201cA Conversation with Kathy Reichs,\u201d this event will take place on Thursday, July 7, 2022, from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm at the Wells Fargo Playhouse at ImaginOn.\u00a0 To purchase tickets for this event, please click on the following link: https:\/\/foundation.cmlibrary.org\/event\/a-conversation-with-kathy-reichs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cheris Hodges\u2019s Can\u2019t Hide Love <\/em>is book four of her Richardson Sisters series.\u00a0 All of the books in this series deal with the Richardson family\u2019s historic bed-and-breakfast in Charleston, South Carolina.\u00a0 Each book in the series features one of the Richardson sisters, and this latest volume focuses on Alexandria Richardson.\u00a0 The author\u2019s website includes the following description of Can\u2019t Hide Love<\/em>:\u00a0 \u201cShe\u2019s the responsible sister, making sacrifices to run the family\u2019s treasured B&B. But for once, Alexandria Richardson decides to take a vacation\u2014a singles\u2019 cruise, where she throws caution to the wind. And the handsome stranger she meets is just what she needs to make every moment sizzle\u2014for all seven wildly sexy days. Energized and refreshed, Alex returns home\u2014only to discover her holiday hottie is also the renowned architect tapped for the B&B\u2019s major renovation project. How is she supposed to manage a business\u2014and an all-consuming desire?\u201d\u00a0 For more information about Can\u2019t Hide Love,<\/em> please click on the following link:\u00a0 <\/em>https:\/\/thecherishodges.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nancy Northcott\u2019s The Merlin Club <\/em>is the first book in a new historical fantasy\/mystery series about a secret organization of wizards.\u00a0 In introducing the series, the author writes,\u00a0 \u201cAn ancient compact among Europe’s wizards, or Gifted, bars them from using magic against each other for national gain.\u00a0 Sometimes, though, you have to break the rules to avert disaster. Thus the Merlin Club was born. A group of English Gifted, they operate in secret lest they draw the ire of their governing council. When magic threatens the peace and security of the realm, they rise to the challenge. No matter what that requires them to do.\u201d\u00a0 For information about The Merlin Club <\/em>and the author\u2019s other books, please click here: https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Merlin-Club-Nancy-Northcott-ebook\/dp\/B09WKSW2LD<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These three novels differ by genre, but they all offer readers opportunities to escape their day-to-day concerns and enjoy the pleasures that come with reading well-written genre fiction.  Storied Charlotte is indeed fortunate to be home to such talented genre authors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charlotte is home to a number of successful authors who specialize in writing genre fiction, and three of them have new releases.\u00a0 These include Kathy Reichs\u2019s latest thriller\/mystery titled Cold, Cold Bones, Cheris Hodges\u2019s new romance novel titled Can\u2019t Hide Love, and Nancy Northcott\u2019s historical fantasy titled The Merlin Club. All three of these releases […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storied-charlotte"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3392,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions\/3392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}