Louise Hathaway

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Here's what readers are saying in two 5 Star Reviews:

"What a wonderful little book! A great idea to take the dinner into an actual murder and then on top of it add some romance too. Great idea. This is a very easy read and hard to put down. I would recommend this to anyone who had been to a murder mystery dinner and hoped for more than just so-so food. You'll not regret it!"

"Walk through Orange County with Isabella as she helps Detective Don "Draper" Sterling solve a murder mystery. Light and fun murder mystery to read at the beach! Take Isabella with you..."

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Jane Austen's Sisters

It's an interesting family dynamic to be a middle sister. It's like the best of both worlds: I get an older sister to mother and protect me and a younger sister that I can try to nurture and influence, as if she were my daughter. Before my younger sister died, we had a saying: "There's no friend like a sister." I'd like to add that "there's no friend like a little sister." She used to put me on a pedestal--no matter what stupid thing that I would ever do, she always believed in me. Any book, movie or song I ever liked, my sister would run out and purchase for herself, so that we could "relate" to each other. I have always done the same with my big sister. I try to impress her with my knowledge of the music from her "Summer of Love" generation. Not only have I tried to emulate my older sister: I am her biggest fan.

"What's this have to do with Jane Austen?" you might be asking. My little sister and I loved Sense and Sensibility. We often said that I was "sensibility" because of my caution and practicality and she was "sense" with her heady ideas of love. She told me once, "You want to be safe and secure in love, but I like the roller coaster ride." Doesn't she sound like Marianne in Jane Austen's book? There is a scene in the book that my sister and I once talked about: Marianne is critically ill, on the brink of death, and Elinor, at her bedside, totally breaks down. She practically demands that Marianne stay alive: "Would you break mother's heart? Would you break mine?" I told my sister that I'd react the same way if anything ever happened to her. Little did we know that a few years later, our lives would mimic this scene. My sister was in Intensive Care for six months and I often thought of Marianne when I visited the hospital. Austen's fictional character was spared; but my real life one wasn't. I wrote and dedicated this book to the memory of my little sister:

Nonsense and Sensibility: A Modern Austen Variation

by Louise Hathaway

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Saturday, April 9, 2016

High School Reunion

High School Reunion: You Can Go Home Again

by Louise Hathaway

Okay, ladies. ‘Fess up. How many of you out there can admit that you go to your high school reunions hoping to see your old boyfriend? You know, “The One Who Got Away”? If you do, I think you’ll like our eBook, “High School Reunion: You Can Go Home Again”. It is partly based upon my courtship with my husband who I met in high school. He courted me by writing a poem and handed it to me on the last day of school as “a token of our friendship”--as he called it. His wonderful poem is inside this story. What a good poet he was and how very lucky I was to receive it. I’m so glad I didn’t let him get away. Our book's protagonist, Danielle Dubois, has spent twelve years looking for the guy who wrote her the poem and has been going to her high school reunions, hoping that she can finally tell him that she shares his feelings. Is it too late? Will she get a second chance at love?

This eBook is available at all of your favorite eBookstores (Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Amazon, Smashwords and Kobo). And it’s only 99 cents!

Here's what one reader wrote in a Five-Star Review of this story:

Everybody probably had at least one crush in high school. Most people might have wondered at least at some point about what ever happened to that person. What would happen if you got one more chance to get together. How would it change your life?

That’s what this story is all about. It’s a very believable depiction of wanting to see that person again, and getting to meet up. There is some unfinished business in Danielle’s past, and the reader gets to experience tying up those loose ends.

I enjoyed reading High School Reunion. It’s that second chance you might have dreamed about. It’s about giving romance the chance that should have happened a long time ago. It’s about going out on a limb to try to get what you want, now that you have experience being an adult. Give this one a read if you've ever wondered, "What if?"

Friday, March 18, 2016

New Romantic Murder Mystery

My husband and I have just finished writing our new murder mystery. It stars a female homicide detective who has bipolar disorder and takes place in New Orleans. It is loosely based upon the Bedroom Basher Case about a serial killer who murdered several young woman in their bedrooms in the 1970s. I knew one of his victims, so it is dedicated to her. Here is the full description:

In this suspenseful and romantic murder mystery, New Orleans is under siege by a serial killer who’s been brutally torturing women and leaving their dead bodies all over the city. Homicide Detective Yvonne Dauphin must risk her life and sanity when she checks herself out of the hospital after a bipolar meltdown, determined to prove to her boss and coworkers that’s she still up to the job and will not rest until she takes this evil man down. To further complicate matters, she’s hoping to reunite with her ex-husband at the same time she’s feeling a blossoming attraction to a younger detective.

Fighting Demons is available for $2.99 at Amazon, iTunes, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Kobo, and Smashwords. It is also available in paperback at Amazon and Createspace. Here are this book's direct links to each book seller:

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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras is a week from today, ya'll. If you are going or wish you were, take along this informative eBook about New Orleans and Louisiana. It's a travelogue/romance novel about my favorite places to visit, dine at, and stay overnight in the Crescent City and surrounding areas. My travelogue also includes helpful websites to look at before your trip there. Laissez les bon temps rouler! Only $1.99. Available at Amazon, iTunes, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Kobo Books, and Smashwords.

Honeymoon in New Orleans

by Louise Hathaway

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Sunday, January 24, 2016

Books about Librarians

When was the last time you visited a library? How long has it been since you asked a librarian a reference question? These days, it seems like the only people who go to the library are those wanting to use the Internet or check out DVDs. It's a favorite hang-out for the homeless or those seeking either an air-conditioned or heated place to camp out all day and night until closing. The times they are a changin' as Bob Dylan says.

Death Among the Stacks: The Body in the Law Library

I worked at a law library for several years. The people I worked with were all college educated and three were former lawyers. We used to have enjoyable conversations about politics, TV, movies, and each other (there was a lot of office politics that I did my best to steer clear of). I'll never forget the time when the library's electronic compact shelving malfunctioned and almost crushed to death one of my coworkers.

I used that background for the first novel I wrote that takes place in a library. It is called "Death Among the Stacks: The Body in the Law Library". I had Agatha Christie's detective, Hercule Poirot, in mind when I wrote this book with my husband. We wanted it to be a story with multiple suspects who, in the last chapter, are summoned by the detective, who then grills them in front of everyone, saying why he suspected each one and making everyone nervous until he finally reveals whodunit.

Watchin' the Detective: A Mystery Dinner Romance

The second book about libraries I wrote is a romantic comedy. It's about a librarian who goes to a performance at a mystery dinner theater where someone is actually killed--definitely not part of the act. A handsome detective comes to investigate and she falls madly in love with him. She gets mixed up with some dangerous people when she tries to find out who the murderer was. This is a little racy: her fantasies about him are quite graphic (and very funny).

The characters in Watchin' the Detective get married and spend their honeymoon in New Orleans. This book is mostly a travelogue about New Orleans and Louisiana and anyone planning to go visit The Crescent City would benefit by some of the travel tips it offers.

Honeymoon in New Orleans

My final book in the series finds the two librarians from earlier stories going to Europe. Isabella is trying to recover from her husband's death and Nicole is looking forward to her first visit to Europe. Will either of them find love on this vacation? Where will they go and what will they do on September 11, 2001 when they find themselves stranded in London and cannot take a flight home as planned?

Destination Europe: The Summer the World Changed

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Friday, January 22, 2016

Mystery Dinner Romance

Have you ever wanted to go to a mystery dinner theater where the audience has to figure out whodunit? That is where two lovers meet in this humorous and sexy romance novel. Isabella, a librarian in her early thirties, goes with her friends to a performance where an actual murder takes place. She falls in love with the handsome investigating detective, and gets herself mixed up with some dangerous people when she goes undercover—in spite of his warnings—to help him solve the crime.

Watchin' the Detective: A Mystery Dinner Romance

by Louise Hathaway

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