Deanna Raybourn
http://www.deannaraybourn.com
A sixth-generation native Texan, Deanna Raybourn grew up in
San Antonio, where she met her college sweetheart. She
married him on her graduation day and went on to teach high
school English and history. During summer vacation at the
age of twenty-three, she wrote her first novel. After three
years as a teacher, Deanna left education to have a baby
and
pursue writing full-time.
Fourteen years and many, many rejections after her first
novel, she signed a three-book deal with MIRA Books.
“Sex, lies and awesome clothing descriptions”
is
how one reader described Deanna's debut novel,
Silent
in the Grave, published in January 2007. The first
in the Silent series, the book follows Lady Julia Grey as
she investigates the mysterious death of her husband with
the help of the enigmatic private inquiry agent Nicholas
Brisbane. From the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to a
Gypsy camp on Hampstead Heath, Silent in the
Grave deftly captures the lush ambience of
Victorian
London.
The series continues with the second book, Silent in the
Sanctuary (January 2008), a classic English country
house murder mystery with a few twists and turns for
Brisbane and Lady Julia along the way.
It culminates, for now, with Silent on the Moor
(March 2009).
Deanna plots her books from her home in Virginia. After one
too many hot Texas summers, Deanna and her husband packed
up
their daughter and moved to the mid-Atlantic state, where
they enjoy the fall leaves but deeply miss good Tex-Mex
cooking.
Still Virginia has been good to this author. Deanna's novel
Silent in the Grave won the 2008 RITAŽ Award for
Novel with Strong Romantic Elements.
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Books
Dark Road to Darjeeling
(A Lady Julia Grey Novel #4)
October 1, 2010
For Lady Julia Grey and Nicholas Brisbane, the honeymoon
has ended...but the adventure is just beginning.
After eight idyllic months in the Mediterranean, Lady Julia
Grey and her detective husband are ready to Read more...
The Dead Travel Fast
February 23, 2010
A husband, a family, a comfortable life: Theodora
Lestrange lives in terror of it all.
With a modest inheritance and the three gowns that comprise
her entire wardrobe, Theodora leaves Edinburgh — Read more...
Silent In The Grave
(A Lady Julia Grey Novel #1)
January 1, 2010
"Let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the
grave."
These ominous words are the last threat that Sir Edward Grey
receives from his killer. Before he can show them Read more...
Silent On The Moor
(A Lady Julia Grey Novel #3)
March 3, 2009
Despite his admonitions to stay away, Lady Julia arrives in
Yorkshire to find Brisbane as remote and maddeningly
attractive as ever. Cloistered together, they share the
moldering house with the proud but impoverished Read more...
Silent In The Sanctuary
(A Lady Julia Grey Novel #2)
February 1, 2009
Fresh from a six-month sojourn in Italy, Lady Julia
returns home to Sussex to find her father's estate crowded
with family and friends—but dark deeds are afoot at the
deconsecrated abbey, and a Read more...
Silent in the Grave
(A Lady Julia Grey Novel #1)
December 1, 2007
"Let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the
grave."
These ominous words, slashed from the pages of a book of
Psalms, are the last threat that the darling of Read more...
Silent in the Grave
(A Lady Julia Grey Novel #1)
January 1, 2007
"Let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the
grave."
These ominous words, slashed from the pages of a book of
Psalms, are the last threat that the darling of Read more...
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