http://www.tracydunham.com Tracy Dunham Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:57:31 +0000 http://www.tracydunham.com en http://tracydunham.com/REVIEWS http://tracydunham.com/following/tracydunham.com/REVIEWS Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:57:31 +0000 Tracy Dunham 1556615 body { background:url(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3327/5809612577_72f38f59c2_b.jpg); } YES, THE RIVER KNOWS "In Dunham's worthy sequel to Wishful Sinful (2004), attorney Tal Jefferson is still trying to escape her past—her flameout in the big city after losing a capital case and her tendency to bury her sorrows in a bottle. She's back home in Wynnton, S.C., making a meager living and being watched over by her tough-as-nails office manager, June Atkins. But when Tal and childhood friend Travis Whitlock fish a severed head from the Wynnton River, Tal and June are thrown into a firestorm of racism, thievery and murder. The head, it turns out, belongs to June's estranged husband. When a second body turns up near the Whitlock farm, both the authorities and vicious thieves with nothing to lose target Tal and June. Tal is a superb mix of hard edges and open wounds, a weary fighter trying to redeem herself whatever the cost. While Tal is sure she deserves no happy ending, readers will stick with the series to prove her wrong." -Publisher's Weekly, 2005 "Tal is a likeable, real protagonist as she battles her demons and tries to put her life in order. The mystery is fast-paced and enthralling, with plenty of red herrings. The budding romance between Tal and Travis adds substance, especially when Tal suspects Travis in Darryl's murder. " -Richmond Times Dispatch WISHFUL SINFUL This intriguing, suspenseful debut explores life in a small Georgia town, as Tal Jefferson returns after a fall from grace. She was working at a high-profile Atlanta law firm when her incompetent defense of an innocent man resulted in a death sentence. Now Tal lives in the home she inherited from her grandmother and buries herself in the bottle. When an old acquaintance is accused of murdering her lover, Tal is asked to step in as her defense attorney. Crystal Walker insists she killed Trey Kinsale, but Tal thinks Crystal is hiding something to protect daughter Desiree. Tal begins dredging up old secrets to find the true culprit. Allegations that Trey was a blackmailer are intermingled with questions about Crystal's and Desiree's parentage. Tal's quest for the truth leads her on a dangerous path, and as her life is threatened, she develops an unwitting attraction to prosecutor Owen Amos. Tal is a believable protagonist, a product of her Old South grandmother, who must exorcise demons from her past. Dunham's view of small-town Southern life is credible and realistic. She carefully meshes good-old-boy ways with modern-day changes. -Richmond Times Dispatch, 2004 http://tracydunham.com/TRACY-S-BLOG http://tracydunham.com/following/tracydunham.com/TRACY-S-BLOG Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:19:17 +0000 Tracy Dunham 1556645 www.tracydunham.blogspot.com/ body{overflow-x:hidden;} body { background:url(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2292/5809196900_0fa479d607_m.jpg); } http://tracydunham.com/BOOKS-BY-TRACY http://tracydunham.com/following/tracydunham.com/BOOKS-BY-TRACY Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:44:49 +0000 Tracy Dunham 1556623 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/119771/1556623/golden door coins green.jpg" border="0" width="375" height="600" width_o="375" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/119771/1556623/golden door coins green_o.jpg" align="left" caption="Available for Download on Amazon"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/119771/1556623/path to love1.jpg" border="0" width="453" height="600" width_o="453" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/119771/1556623/path to love1_o.jpg" align="left" caption="Available for Download on Amazon "/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/119771/1556623/wishful sinful 1.jpg" border="0" width="420" height="600" width_o="420" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/119771/1556623/wishful sinful 1_o.jpg" align="left" caption="Available for Download on Amazon"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/119771/1556623/wishfusinful.jpg" border="0" width="362" height="600" width_o="362" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/119771/1556623/wishfusinful_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/119771/1556623/yestheriverknows 001.jpg" border="0" width="372" height="600" width_o="372" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/119771/1556623/yestheriverknows 001_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/119771/1556623/morgansland 001.jpg" border="0" width="404" height="600" width_o="404" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/119771/1556623/morgansland 001_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/119771/1556623/ontheterrortrail 001.jpg" border="0" width="374" height="600" width_o="374" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/119771/1556623/ontheterrortrail 001_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/119771/1556623/the last campaign.jpg" border="0" width="414" height="600" width_o="414" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/119771/1556623/the last campaign_o.jpg" align="left" caption="Available for Download on Amazon"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/119771/1556623/thelongtrailhome 001.jpg" border="0" width="406" height="600" width_o="406" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/119771/1556623/thelongtrailhome 001_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/119771/1556623/trailofmythmaker 001.jpg" border="0" width="399" height="600" width_o="399" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/119771/1556623/trailofmythmaker 001_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/119771/1556623/trailtomedicinelodge.jpg" border="0" width="407" height="600" width_o="407" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/119771/1556623/trailtomedicinelodge_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/119771/1556623/changingtrail 001.jpg" border="0" width="411" height="600" width_o="411" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/119771/1556623/changingtrail 001_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/119771/1556623/eurekatrail 002.jpg" border="0" width="411" height="600" width_o="411" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/119771/1556623/eurekatrail 002_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/119771/1556623/ghosttrail 001.jpg" border="0" width="403" height="600" width_o="403" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/119771/1556623/ghosttrail 001_o.jpg" align="left" /> body { background:url(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2306/5808633233_1d26f59400_b.jpg); } <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/119771/1556623/path to love1.jpg" border="0" width="453" height="600" width_o="453" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/119771/1556623/path to love1_o.jpg" align="left" caption="Available for Download on Amazon "/> http://tracydunham.com/ABOUT-TRACY http://tracydunham.com/following/tracydunham.com/ABOUT-TRACY Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:44:33 +0000 Tracy Dunham 1556621 body { background:url(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7163/6469552709_2e6f6663fe_b.jpg); } I should have known, when I was writing fiction stories in the third grade and sending them to our local newspaper, that I was going to end up as a writer. When my elementary school class was assigned a short story, I wrote two. With illustrations. My poor teachers. I place the blame for my love affair with books squarely on my mother, who insisted I spend my summers reading Newbery Award winners. Without the distraction of television, I became a voracious reader and inevitably, that desire for a new story leads to making up one’s own tales. Probably every writer has a similar path, and it’s hell when we’re not writing the stories that come to us in the middle of the night, during a shower, or while weeding the garden. I found this out in a tax class in law school. Miserable in the class, a requirement, I began writing a mystery in which judges are murdered one by one by a lawyer who doesn’t like their legal rulings. I not only survived that tax class, I was much happier. Law school, in fact, is filled with stories about people and their conflicts. That’s basically what case law is, and learning case law is the backbone of a legal education. As a lawyer with a general type of practice, I heard even more stories, and it was my job to unravel the messes and do my best to ameliorate the worst of the impossible ones. No one told me it’s seldom a happy ending when I was spending my three years in law school. So I decided it was time to write endings the way I wanted them. Hence the second career with the written word. Even though this is a solitary profession, I do emerge, blinking in the daylight, from my office to head to the local track for local short track racing, and quite often I can be found at a NASCAR event. I love hearing from readers, have great admiration for librarians who safeguard the First Amendment when no one else will, and occasionally set up an umbrella on the beach, stack my to-be-read pile beside my chair, and spend a glorious time with the sound of surf and a new book.