AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR Carolyn Summer Quinn: 18 Books, Dozens of Awards!
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Britain's Finest Hour!
UnTIL THE STARS ALIGN
It’s 1939. Three young Jewish girls, Rosi, her sister Anni, and their cousin Emilie, wait to board the Kindertransport train that will take them from away Nazi Germany, and a life of discrimination, to kind foster families in England. At war's end, the question is, what happened to their old families?
Toxic Friend. Missing Baby.
There's no cure for impossible
There sure isn't! When Selena's toxic former old school friend kidnaps a baby, all she wants, at first, is not to become involved. When the situation explodes and Mila dies, the baby still can't be found. Or can she?
WHAT did she just inherit?
The TEETOTALER'S BAR
What's a healthy-living girl to do when she inherits a bar and an apartment building complete with colorful tenants? Jazz is left all this and more in the will of a relative she barely knew - and who was murdered. So what's going on here, and whodunit?
Monkey Business!
CANS OF COLA JUST DON'T CRY
A woman retires to Florida hoping to create a quiet life, write a book about a cold case she's had knowledge of since childhood, and grow roses. That's until a trafficked animal lands on her dock!
What's going on here?
The Vietnam Babylift
CHILd OF SECRETS FROM AFAR
It's 1975. Belinda and her husband adopt two little Vietnamese girls from Operation Babylift. Why is a strange man following one of them? And why won't the child tell her new parents what she knows? A brand new cozy mystery!
Hello There!
Philosophy
There's no reason NOT to be positive!
Hot Off the Presses!
The Hollywood backlash moon
What's a nice girl from Brooklyn doing in a place like Hollywood? Almost 21 and living with her wacky aunt and uncle since she was orphaned, Katie is trying to solve the murder of her stepcousin. What are they all living under, a Hollywood backlash moon?
Honorable Mention, 2024 Reader Ready Book Awards
A CHARM WITHOUT A CHAIN
Monty is a high school teacher who always wanted to be a cop. When he stumbles onto the biggest mystery ever to hit his little town he's determined to solve the case! Who killed the principal? Who killed a teacher? And what's the significance of the silver charm Monty's daughter found near a crime scene?
COZY MYSTERIES
VANISHED ON THE VAUDEVILLE CIRCUIT
It's the 1920s. Song-and-dance man August La May, formerly known as Avram Landenberg of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, thought he was living a grand life on the Orpheum Circuit in vaudeville, traveling the country with his gal Violetta and daughters April and Florabelle. Even after Violetta deserted th
VANISHED ON THE VAUDEVILLE CIRCUIT
It's the 1920s. Song-and-dance man August La May, formerly known as Avram Landenberg of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, thought he was living a grand life on the Orpheum Circuit in vaudeville, traveling the country with his gal Violetta and daughters April and Florabelle. Even after Violetta deserted the act and broke his heart, he toured with his talented children, still bringing down the house while billed as "The Three La Mays."
But four years after Violetta left, all might not be well. August is sure he sees her on the theater ticket line in Chicago. Then seven-year-old Florabelle goes missing on her way to the stage. Has Violetta really returned for only one of her daughters, or has someone else among the irregular folks in vaudeville taken the talented child?
BACKSTABBED ON BROADWAY
Jasmine works for a talent agent so tyrannical she’s looking forward to the day she can quit when she enters the office and finds him dead on the floor. That narcissistic agent is one of the most hated characters on Broadway, and it’s not really a surprise that he finally got stabbed in the back. In shock, young Jas
BACKSTABBED ON BROADWAY
Jasmine works for a talent agent so tyrannical she’s looking forward to the day she can quit when she enters the office and finds him dead on the floor. That narcissistic agent is one of the most hated characters on Broadway, and it’s not really a surprise that he finally got stabbed in the back. In shock, young Jasmine is astonished to find out that the boss she couldn’t abide left her the agency, and everything else he owned, in his latest, newly revised will. The co-workers he bypassed are furious, the actors he worked with are not really sorry he’s dead, and the police are stumped. In a menacing theatrical environment that exists beneath the veneer of a glamourous industry, where so many people are not who they pretend to be, can Jasmine find out whodunit?
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF ANSWERS
An ominous cloud full of questions has hung over Bethany Barrows' dysfunctional family ever since her little cousin Ashley was abducted from their eccentric Jersey Shore neighborhood in 1988. It's part of a series of unsolved crimes against children. Now, in March 2020, as Covid-19 is starting to disrupt t
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF ANSWERS
An ominous cloud full of questions has hung over Bethany Barrows' dysfunctional family ever since her little cousin Ashley was abducted from their eccentric Jersey Shore neighborhood in 1988. It's part of a series of unsolved crimes against children. Now, in March 2020, as Covid-19 is starting to disrupt the whole country, Bethany, the last of the Barrows, is back at the shore to close up her late uncle's house. Uncle Ryan was a kindhearted detective who never stopped searching for a solution to the crime that robbed him of his daughter and Bethany is astounded to find what looks like a viable lead while sorting through his possessions. Could it be? Is this the answer she's always been waiting for, and did the old family cold case just turn marvelously hot?
THE FINAL COMEUPPANCE
Amanda, a woman who has been haunted for twenty-one years by the memories of the ghastly emotional abuse she endured at a now-defunct private school, is enlisted by her cousin, the police detective, to help him solve multiple murders. The killer leaves a clue at each crime scene. The old school's hypocritical motto
THE FINAL COMEUPPANCE
Amanda, a woman who has been haunted for twenty-one years by the memories of the ghastly emotional abuse she endured at a now-defunct private school, is enlisted by her cousin, the police detective, to help him solve multiple murders. The killer leaves a clue at each crime scene. The old school's hypocritical motto is always deliberately left on a piece of paper. Who is going after these wretched adults that made certain children's lives almost unbearable way back when? What exactly happened to cause someone to resort to murder over it, so many years later? The answers surely lie in the past where something must have gone horrifically worng – but what? And why? Whodunit?
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NOW AND FOREVERMORE ARABELLA
- An Award Finalist in the American Fiction Awards of 2022 and a Literary Titan Golden Book Award Winner. An abandoned little girl in foster care finds out that she's really a missing child from a loving family who was stolen along with a car. But how in the world did that happen in the first place? Can Arabella, now that she's reunited with her parents and sister, remember who stole her as a toddler and help solve the case?
KEEP YOUR SONGS IN YOUR HEART
- Another Award Finalist in the American Fiction Awards, this time for 2019. War only separates friends if you let it. Ruby, a gutsy little Seattle girl, finds her life is disrupted by the attack on Pearl Harbor and the start of World War II. But even when other Americans have begun to turn against their Japanese neighbors and friends, Ruby stays true to her best buddy, Emi, and waits for her upside-down world to right itself.
TheATRICAL BIOGRAPHY OF A LEGENd
MAMA ROSE'S TURN
- Broadway got some of this legendary story wrong! This is the first full biography of Rose Thompson Hovick, mother of stars "Baby" June Havoc and Gypsy Rose Lee, whose colorful parenting style inspired the Broadway musical GYPSY. Published by University Press of Mississippi.
Author, Author!
- Carolyn Summer Quinn's books are not just intriguing - they're a whole lot of fun to read! Get one today and enjoy!
Sing OUT, Louise!
MAMA ROSE'S TURN
Ever wonder what was the REAL story of Gypsy Rose Lee and Baby June Havoc's mother, Rose Hovick? Find out in MAMA ROSE'S TURN: THE TRUE STORY OF AMERICA'S MOST NOTORIOUS STAGE MOTHER!