I’m Alice Duncan, Anne Robins, Emma Craig, Rachel Wilson and even Jon Sharpe a couple of times. Alice, Anne, Emma and Rachel all write historical novels. Jon writes westerns. Back when I was  young and didn’t know any better, I wanted to write the Great American Novel. After life kicked me around for a few decades I realized that I not only don’t want want to write the Great American Novel, I don’t even want to read  it. What I crave from my reading material is to be taken away from life’s toils for a few hours. Entertainment is what I aim to provide with my novels, and I consider it a most worthwhile goal.

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HUNGRY SPIRITS

By Alice Duncan
Five Star/Cengage
June, 2010
ISBN 978-1-59414-912-2


This is one of my favorite covers of all time!

When Daisy Gumm Majesty, spiritualist to people with more money than sense, is asked by her good friend Johnny Buckingham, a captain in the Salvation Army, to teach a cooking class for disadvantaged ladies, she’s sure Johnny is nuts. She earns her living raising the dead, for goodness sake! The only thing she’s ever been able to do in the kitchen is burn things. Nevertheless, she gallantly sets out to teach the class, using a cooking booklet provided by Johnny, fully expecting calamity to ensue. When it does, the only surprise is that it’s not cooking-related. Rather, one of her students vanishes before the class is over.

In getting to the bottom of the mysterious disappearance, Daisy is not only forced to confront her own prejudices about Germans, whom she blames for her husband’s ill health, but she also lands smack in the middle of a criminal plot! In short, Daisy’s in for the adventure of her life.

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The reviews are good (so far)!

“This enjoyable series deserves to be much better known. It takes place in Pasadena at the beginning in the early 1920s. WWI has had an immense impact on the Gumm-Majesty family. Billy Majesty returned from the war with wounds related to being both shot and exposed to mustard gas. As a result, he cannot walk or work and has become addicted to morphine. Daisy, his wife, supports the family working as a spiritualist. Billy doesn’t approve, but Daisy and the Gumm family are much more pragmatic. In this adventure, Daisy is asked to teach a cooking class for disadvantaged immigrant ladies at the Salvation Army. That sounds innocent enough, but Daisy can’t cook. She manages to stay one step ahead of the class, but she lands right in the middle of an anarchist plot, forcing her to turn sleuth and, along the way, confront her prejudices against Germans, whom she blames for her husband’s disability. Daisy’s upbeat attitude in the face of serious problems gives her great appeal, as does Duncan’s grasp of the period. Recommend Daisy to fans of Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs.”  Judy Coon, Booklist

“Daisy is a terrific heroine – she’s strong, smart, sassy, independent, and loyal. All of Alice Duncan’s characters have outstanding traits, and the author’s narrative of Pasadena in the era of speakeasies and flappers is nothing short of genius and a true love of the time and place. HUNGRY SPIRITS is an easy reading guilty pleasure and is chock full of danger, intrigue, and friends and family relationships. This is a delicious tale showcasing another of Daisy’s unknown talents – cooking! Thank you Alice Duncan for providing some of the best stories and characters in today’s literary market.” Betty Cox, ReaderToReader.

“Alice Duncan has given us a slice of life book in post-wartime with an interlocking mystery. She delves into the feelings of the survivors and the families who lost loved ones. HUNGRY SPIRITS has substance in the story line as well as in each character. A great change of pace book, thoroughly enjoyable with great writing that holds your interest throughout. I highly recommend it; it's good for the heart and soul! “ Connie Gregory, Connie’s Reviews.

“The latest post WWI era "Spirits" novel is a terrific historical that contains a strong mystery subplot. Daisy and the strong cast including the repeat characters from previous books (see Strong Spirits, Fine Spirits and High Spirits) and the cooking class make for a fascinating deep look at 1921 California.” Harriet Klausner

Five Star will be publishing PECOS VALLEY REVIVAL
(ISBN 978-1-59414-926-9) in January of 2011. PECOS
VALLEY REVIVAL is a follow-up book to PECOS VALLEY
DIAMOND, which was published by New Age Dimensions
Publishing before it was wiped out by Hurricane Wilma
in 2005 (this, incidentally, is only one example of the perils

of my own personal writing life).

Check out the cool cover for PECOS VALLEY REVIVAL!
The only (slight) problem with it is that the gorgeous
saguaro cactus on the cover is found only on Arizona’s
Sonoran Desert. I think the art folks at Five Star are
going to replace the cactus with one of New Mexico’s blooming yuccas.

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Look at the very first review of PECOS VALLEY REVIVAL!

“Alice Duncan has a unique flair for explicit characterization; each main character is described physically but the reader really gets to know them through dialogue, actions and substance. “Pecos Valley Revival” shows Duncan's skillfulness with interweaving plots that hold your interest while enlightening us about 1923 New Mexico and cowboys. Her writing in unparalleled for interest and quality. I could not put this book down!” Connie Gregory, Connie’s Reviews.

By the way, you can order PECOS VALLEY DIAMOND for your Kindle! If you want to read the books in order and have a Kindle, click here!

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And there’s even more good news!!! Five Star will be publishing the third Mercy Allcutt book, FALLEN ANGELS, in May of 2011. I’m very happy about this! So how come I’m not rich? Well, never mind. Don’t forget that you can get the first of the Mercy Allcutt books, LOST AMONG THE ANGELS, on Kindle, by clicking here. I’ll put ANGEL’S FLIGHT, Mercy’s second book, on Kindle as soon as it’s been out for a year, which will be (I think) May of 2011.

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Yippee! I just found out that Five Star will be publishing GENTEEL SPIRITS, book #5 in my “Spirits” series featuring Daisy Gumm Majesty! The official word is that it will be published in July of 2011.

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See Pasadena in Daisy’s day

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