Christina Brett's novels
"A Nice and Quiet Place" is a witty whodunit set in suburbia. When Manhattan couple Melissa and Colin Bradley and their new baby Gemma moved to the suburbs in search of a nice and quiet place to live and raise a child, they found that the 'burbs' is not always that quiet. Murder and mayhem abound in a place where people look so normal... and when Melissa decides to solve a murder that falls on her lap she realizes that if she's not careful she could easily be the next victim.
This is a funny and witty account of life away from the Big Bad City, with a mystery to solve.
Anne Perry, the English author whose stories set in Victorian London are so popular, said... "I loved it and couldn't put it down!"
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"Old Sins Cast Long Shadows"
is a compelling true story about a hit-woman in organized crime, and so much more. It is wonderfully different from anything you have ever read before, especially the heroine Jackie Quaglia, who you will love and hate at the same time.
Jackie is the only daughter of Tony Quaglia, a mafia capo who taught her to kill without remorse. He wanted Jackie to become the son he never had in order to take over his 'family' of organized crime with an empire that extended from coast to coast. Jackie, however, have other designs for herself and starts her plans to leave that life of crime and become the 'regular' person she has always dreamt of being.
This is a story that will change your sense of values and you will be thinking about it long after you put the book down. You will see that murder can be an act that is cut off from one's moralistic boundaries, and may be a little more than the offshoot of an innate drive to force love and acceptance from a pathological parent.
Steven Ramírez, film editor and director, said... "Brett's detailed accounts of each 'hit' will keep you in your seat turning pages until you reach the end of the story".
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La Sombra de Sus Pecados" is the Spanish version of the above. The author translated it herself, and a retired professor and friend in Melo, Uruguay, edited it.
It is for sale at www.bbotw.com where you can see an excerpt by clicking on the cover image. You may also find it in Amazon.com and all the other distributors.
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"
Double Dealing" is for sale NOW. Please go to www.bbotw.com and read an excerpt and hopefully you'll like it well enough to order a copy - for which I thank you! It is also in Amazon.com and other 
sites, but frankly, I prefer that you order it from www.bbotw.com
It is another mystery set in Long Island and it includes cloning and also a poisonous root of a Brazilian orchid that is as deadly as curare.
Again, this is a fast-paced story that will keep your interest from the first page. In the words of its heroine, Liz Bennett... "If my life had been a movie for television, the hand that reached for that blue envelope on a hot July day, would have moved in slow motion right before my entire world collapsed around me."
I have received many 5-Star reviews for this story. You may read them at www.bbotw.com
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My latest story, "Dark Moon Over Berlin" was out to the public on August 6th, 2008 and it's a story in which I blended my fiction and actual history.
It's a spy story, a love story, the saga of a Brooklyn history teacher-turned secretary-turned spy and sent to the bowels of Hitler's Berlin with two missions: to serve Uncle Sam and to find Paul, the man she loves.
The heroine is intelligent, spunky, and funny --- "In his purified world where only Aryans would live there was no place for Jews, Negroids, homosexuals, and certain birth defects. Ridiculous mustaches, it seems, were not listed among those imperfections..." --- and more American than apple pie.
"The moment the General gets fresh with me he gets a lapful of spider..." she tells Paul, and means it. She has been possing as Baroness Elsa von Helpsberg in the house of General von Housen, the man in charge of all the German double agents in Great Britain.
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"Dark Moon Over Berlin" may be ordered by phone 1-888-541-2942 or via email omnibookpublishing@att.net and it will be mailed to you via Priority Mail within 48 hours. You may pay via PayPal, or call the publishers to place the order.
Its price is $16.95 plus $4.60 for Priority Mail
All of my stories may also be found in www.amazon.com - and if you read one (or all) please write a review for me at their site.
A word from an author's point of view:
First of all, never give up! As an Author's Advocate for a large publishing company, I deal with writers all day. Some of them haven't touched their work in months and tell me that they don't think their work is worth showing to anyone. Duh!
If you don't have faith in yourself, don't expect others to have it. We know deep inside ourselves that our work is good - besides, just the fact that we have spent so long plotting and planning PLUS the writing itself - should be proof that what we are doing is good enough to be published. A writer whould also be a reader. To read the works of a writer we admire is completely fine! That doesn't mean that we are copying ideas, just his or her style. In my case, I believe that Susan Isaacs is an incredible writer and when a friend and loyal reader told me that my writing reminds her of Isaacs' I flipped! I nudged in the ribs and said... "Aw, come on! You're just saying that!" and she assured me that it was true. She added that "A Nice and Quiet Place" could have been written by Isaacs... After I came back to life from that reverie I decided to watch myself closely when I write to see if my friend was right. Because I like my mysteries to be set in suburbia, with today's professional women as the heroines I believe that it's a good start. I have a million years to go before I can achieve Susan Isaacs' incredible style and penchant for one-liners and jokes, but my friend's words gave me the push I needed to keep going.
Ghost writing
Ghost writing is not dressing in a long white sheet and start typing. There are people who have a story in mind but claim they cannot do the work themselves, therefore they hire someone to help them. I can do that for you, either in English or in Spanish.
This is June of 2008, and I just entered into a contract with a famous model to ghost write the story of her life.
Please call me at 888-541-2942 and we can discuss more details.
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Mike LaPaglia has written a compelling story about organized crime, called "Vendetta: Sicilian Justice" and I highly recommend it.
A former NYPD officer, he was assigned to the Homicide-Organized Crime Squad in 1957 and investigated organized crime in New York. This background gave him the tools to write this excellent fictional story based on fact, one that you'll won't be able to put down.
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Another wonderful fictional book is "The Tiverton Diary" by Wallace Collins. This story borrows from actual events and figures of WWII to weave an uniquely crafted romantic suspense novel.
Highly recommended, I send cheers to Wallace Collins for a job well done!
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A book that I truly enjoyed is "A Road Not Taken" by Ted Lowes. Intrigue, deception, and murder blend magically in a story that will also take you to the events of WWII --- can you tell by now that I am a WWII buff? -- and Ted's narrative is fast and progressive.
Good to read at any time of the year, but better in a winter day with snow falling outside and nowhere else to go to enjoy it more fully.
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There is a new book that I'd like to recommend to all of you mystery lovers: "Heaven's Drop" is an excellent written by a new author, David Ferrara. What I liked about this story is that the reader doesn't guess 'whodunit' until the very end. How many books have you read when the perp almost shouts at you from chapter four or so? Wait until you read "Heaven's Drop"! It's very well written and will keep you interested all the way.
You may order it from OMNI Book Publishing at omnibookpublishing@att.net or by calling us at 888-541-2942
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WRITING CONTEST
We at OMNI Book Publishing are having a Writing Contest that is due on December 15th. If you are interested in entering, please call me at 888-541-2942 or email me at omnibookpublishing@att.net and ask me to send you details. There will be a first prize of $100, a second prize of $50, plus the chance to publish with us with a discount. Besides, we plan to take the best 15 entries and put them in a book that will be published in February of 2009. Fiction, non-fiction, and poetry entries are welcome. Each entry is $20, and an author may enter up to three times - one on each different category.
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