Today I'm honored to have bestselling author Laura Griffin visiting my forum at B&N.com so please click the link and stop by.Laura GriffinOct. 30, 2012Thank you, Deb, for inviting me to be here with your group.I’m not sure if I ever told you that my nickname as a kid was “Book Nook”because I liked to finish my schoolwork early and go find a quiet corner withmy book... So I love being among people who love to read as much as I do.I’m thrilled to be here to talk about my latest suspensenovel SCORCHED. This is the sixth book in my Tracers series, which has taken ona life of its own… and before anyone runs away, let me answer two questions Iget all the time: No, you do not have toread the Tracers books in order. Yes, each book can be read as a stand-alone.I’ve often discovered a new author by picking up a book inthe middle of a series, so I know how that goes. I don’t want new readers tofeel lost, so each book has a stand-alone suspense plot and each book featuresa different lead couple. The Tracers books are all mysteries, with a love storywoven in. I like for the characters to work hard and struggle and eventuallyget their hard-won Happily Ever After.SCORCHED features two of my very favorite characters,forensic anthropologist Kelsey Quinn and Navy SEAL Gage Brewer. These two werequite an adventure to write (I got to interview SEALs! I got to visit a bodyfarm!) and I hope you’ll enjoy their story.Maybe it is because of my reporter roots, but I always haveto meet and interview people in my character’s professions. I love to gathercolorful details that I can use to bring the characters to life. So, to learnabout SEALs, I read up on them and then interviewed a few (one via BlackBerrywhile he was stationed in Afghanistan). To learn about forensicanthropologists, I visited a body farm and got to hear all about the study ofbones and how experts can use clues to provide leads for homicideinvestigators.After getting a feel for my main characters, I sat down towrite.The story begins with Gage on a daring SEAL rescue missionand Kelsey stationed halfway around the world doing a humanitarian dig in thePhilippines. She is excavating bones of people killed in a massacre and comesacross something that doesn’t fit. As Kelsey investigates the mystery back homein the United States, she becomes mixed up in a murder. Kelsey goes on the run,and that’s when she crosses paths with Gage, the man who once broke her heartand now must help save her life.Like the other Tracers books, SCORCHED features someforensic twists and turns. It was fun to weave several SEAL action scenes intothe novel, too. Navy SEALs make terrific heroes because there is nothing theseguys cannot do. They are dedicated. They are determined.And they are literally unstoppable when it comes to fighting for what mattersto them. In this case, Gage is fighting not only for his country, but for thewoman he loves.I’ve got an excerpt posted on my web site at http://www.lauragriffin.com/books/scorched.php#excerpt.I look forward to talking to you all hear at B&N. If you have questionsabout the books, the series, or anything at all, please ask away!
My Review of ScorchedScorched
Laura Griffin
Pocket Books
ISBN13:9781451617399Forensic Anthropologist Kelsey Quinn while on a dig in thePhilippines finds skeletal remains of a homicide that gives her pause. Lookingfor answers she sends samples to her ex-fiancée Blake, an FBI agent. Butanswers is the last thing she receives when her ex is murdered, she’s the nextsupposed victim and has to run for her life, with no where turn and no one totrust because the killer wears a badge.
Navy SEAL Gage Brewer is blindsided by the two FBI agents waiting for him onhis return from an op. It seems he’s high on the suspect list of Kelsey’s ex’smurder because of their past relationship. But Kelsey’s just as high on theirlist it seems and what really scares Gage is that no one’s seen Kelsey sincebefore the murder, now his only concern is to find her alive because she stillmeans the world to him.
Together Kelsey and Gage will be a united front against a formidable foe whoseplot is beyond belief terrifying. They’ll also discover that their feelings foreach other did not die with the end of their relationship. But love comes at acost and if they survive the threat against them are they willing to pay theprice.Laura Griffin has amazed me before but this time she wentabove and beyond. I could not put this down, it kept me up late and glued tothe pages as my heart sped and my pulse pounded with each new and frighteningdevelopment, each new threat and each time the passion was just as affecting asthe violence. Her characters Gage and Kelsey were so enigmatic, so engaging, andso real. Their stories so empathic that there was never a good guy or bad guyonly lost chances that I could only hope see turned to second chances. Herstoryline is as A-typed as her characters, it’s fast paced and angst filled andkept my stomach in knots and my nails bitten. The best thing about Laura’sTracer series is both the fact that they read well as a stand-alone and that weget a glimpse of our old friends and their new lives as we go.
Thank you for an awe-inspiring romance and a fearful thriller in one read,it’ll take a while for my distress to lessen, but by then I’ll be more thanready for your next roller-coaster ride.
If you like the novels of Nelson DeMille, Lisa Gardner and John Sandford. Ithink you’ll really love Laura Griffin.
Here are the other novels in the Tracer Series
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