Paper Pirate by Dawn McIntyre
I’m excited to share my first book tour with Let’s Talk
Books Promo. Paper Pirate is available now. I highly encourage you to visit the
author’s website https://www.dawnmcintyreauthor.com, as it not only has her
books but Paper Pirate’s main characters tell you what they think of the book.
It is very unique to see this and I loved it!
About the Book:
As if the looming deadline to pay off a balloon mortgage
isn’t enough to worry about, the five partners who own the small town book
store The Paper Pirate find themselves menaced by a stealthy crook who
systematically searches first the shop, then each of their homes. Because he
takes nothing and barely leaves traces of his presence, the police can’t be of
much help, and simply promise to keep an eye on Charlie Santorelli, Lavinia
“Vinnie” Holcomb, Al Rockleigh, Felicia Cocolo and Lenora Stern. It’s a mystery
to them but the reader knows that Rick Foster, a shady rare-books dealer and
his sidekick Nina Bartov are on the hunt for a particular old volume that sits
unnoticed on a shelf in The Paper Pirate’s used book section. It’s an obscure
early work of the not-terribly- author Benjamin Conway, and it’s badly
defaced—but a very wealthy man is willing to pay Rick a half a million dollars
for it. Seems an ancestor of his eluded the henchmen of a nineteenth-century
dictator by escaping to New York, and eventually took refuge in the northeastern
Pennsylvania countryside. Before he was captured and killed, he’d scribbled as
much evidence of the tyrant’s sins as he could fit into the blank spaces of a
copy of The Stargazer at Dawn and hid it where he hoped his comrades would find
it. They never did.
The five friends also are members of a writers’
group, and each of them has a secret. One is penning an erotic novel on the
sly, another hides a painful estrangement with an only child, and a deadly
teenaged mistake causes a third to sabotage her every chance at happiness in
the present. A partner who claims to be unpublished actually is a
one-hit-wonder with a thirty-year-old best-selling novel followed by a
crippling literary failure, and the last has a family with criminal
connections—he’s spent half a lifetime avoiding them.
About the Author:
Dawn McIntyre is a New Jersey native and long-time resident
of rural Pennsylvania. After years of remodeling houses and working in
corporate America, she began devoting more time to her true passion–building
with words. The result, so far, has been a portfolio of short stories and
novels.
McIntyre founded, along with two fellow authors, a writers'
workshop in 2013 that met at the Hawley Library until the Covid pandemic
necessitated a switch to virtual gatherings. She continues to write fiction
peopled by richly nuanced characters in deceptively simple, familiar settings.
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