Eva Fischer-Dixon

Broschiertes Buch

The Chava Diamond Chronicles

: The Ghostwriter

Beschreibung

In this second installment of the planned four sequences, Chava Diamond, world-renowned writer, is being notified that her British fans voted for her to receive the prestigious British literary award for crime fiction writing called the Crossbow and Blade Award. Arriving in London two days prior the award ceremony (which was to take place in Scotland), Chava and Angela participate in the famous Jack the Ripper Tour. During the walking tour, Chava encounters a strange phenomenon that she could not forget nor shake off. In a brief visit to the New Scotland Yard, she meets a visiting Swedish detective, Sven Lindstrom, who immediately makes a big impression on Chava. Arriving in Balmoral Castle in Scotland, her encounter with people from the past continues, and after receiving her award, strange occurrences began to happen, including attempts on her life and her rescue by unidentifiable persons. Are they ghosts at work in the castle? Chava has no choice but to assist the British police and Sven in solving the murders that took place only doors from her own room-and which Angela was first accused of committing. Startling discoveries follow, and Chava unintentionally solves the mystery of Jack the Ripper. In the process and with some help from beyond, she reveals the identity of the copycat killer who imitated Jack the Ripper's work under investigation by the New Scotland Yard. Would she get help from her "friends" from Whitechapel to write the story of the murdered women? Would she and Sven find a way to meet again? She could only hope.

Autor

I came into this troubled world during the early morning hours of June 17, 1950, in the city of Budapest, Hungary. I was the first and last child of my 41-year-old mother and my father who was 45 years old at the time of my birth. As I did not know any better, I could not possibly understand that we were living in poverty, as I was growing up with loving parents and there was always a bite to eat. My childhood was poor and saddened with tragedies. As a six-year-old child I witnessed the bloody 1956 revolution and received the first taste of true prejudice by those of whom I thought liked us, yet turned against my family. That tragedy did not match the untimely death of my beloved father when I was not yet seven years old, on February 14, 1957. My mother remarried in 1959 and our financial situation was upgraded from poverty to poor. After finishing elementary school I made a decision to earn money as soon as possible to ease our financial situation and I enrolled in a two-year business college (high school diploma was not required). I received my Associate Degree in 1966 and I began to work as a 16-year-old certified secretary/bookkeeper. During the same period I began my high-school education, which I completed while working full-time and attending night school. I discovered my love for writing when I was 11 years old after a movie that my childhood friend and I saw in the movie theater. We were not pleased with the ending and Steven suggested that I should write a different ending that we both liked. Voila, a writer was born. With my family's encouragement, I entered a writing contest given by a youth oriented magazine and to my genuine surprise, I won second price. My desire to live in a free country and to improve my life was so great, that in 1972, leaving everything, including my aging parents behind, I managed to escape from Hungary during a tour to Austria, (then) Yugoslavia and Italy. I spent almost nine long months in a rat infested refugee camp, located Capua, Italy, while I waited for official permission to immigrate to the country of my dreams, to the USA. In 1975 I met and married a wonderful man, my husband Guy. Thanks to his everlasting patience, he assisted me in my task of learning the English language. He is truly my partner for life and I remain forever grateful to him for standing by me in some tough times. It is difficult for me to describe my love for writing. I cannot think of a bigger emotional joy for an author than to see a published novel in somebody's hand and to see a story come alive on the screen. I yearn to experience that joy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 220g
• ISBN-13: 9781543420234
• ISBN-10: 1543420230
• Artikelnr.: 48664126