I am a New Zealander and the author of over forty novels, contemporary, historical and science fiction. Latest news and pictures about my books will be brought to you here.

Favorite, least favorite, honest reviews, and currently reading. From my trip to Barnes and Noble yesterday. Since the semester is coming to an end, I hope that I can finally pick up a book and actually read it! The semester from hell! Let the last minute projects and the late night cramming for finals begin - -.

Whether writing mysteries under my real name, Lise McClendon, or edgy thrillers as Rory Tate, there is nothing I love more than compelling characters engaged in edge-of-your-seat drama. Read more about my books at www. Assigned to the seemingly uncomplicated identification of the surviving victim, Byrne ends up in the kind of tumultuous mystery that affects .

This book trailer follows the opening scenes of. Book 1 of The Shardheld Saga trilogy.

A catalog of my comments and thoughts on books, reading, and writing as well as anything I come across that seems interesting. Synthesis, Story, The Master and Margarita. Is unlike others I have come across, like. Four and a half sta.

Try these great women writers. Here are two novels by women whose work the world needs regularly reminding of. Each is less than two hundred pages long but that is where the similarity ends. Is set in the city of Liverpool, a tough place during WWII, and is told in sentences of appropriately stark beauty. Returning to classics would be the greatest teen rebellion. Next time - some great women writers.