Linda Hall
Author of Steal Away (Teri Blake-Addison Mystery Series #1)
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- Birthdate
- 1950
- Gender
- female
- Occupations
- journalist
freelance writer
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- Canadian Power & Sail Squadrons
Crime Writers of Canada - Short biography
- Linda Hall grew up in New Jersey and her love of the ocean was born there. In 1971, she married a Canadian who loves the water just as much as she does. One of the things they enjoy is sailing. In the summer they basically move aboard their 34' sailboat aptly named - Mystery. A graduate of Moody Bible Institute, Linda has worked as a journalist and a creative-writing instructor. She and her husband, Rik, live in Fredericton, New Brunswick. They have two grown children and four wonderful grandchildren.
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- Canada
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- Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
- Associated Place (for map)
- New Brunswick, Canada
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This is a "Love Inspired Suspense Riveting Inspirational Romance", and I feel it lived up to its title. I like a story I can't figure out who the enemy is until the very end. This was one of those stories that made you hear every noise in the house late at night as you are reading. I felt the suspense and enjoyed the inspirational romance that went along with it.
Marylee Simson never promised to "never go back to Burlington!" as her aunt begged her to promise before she died. Now she is show more living where she supposedly was born and lived until her aunt whisked her away shortly after her parents died, when she was just a little girl. She is running a Craft store and trying to discover something about her and her parents, but it seems like she and her parents never existed! As she seeks help from different sources you begin to wander who she can trust with the information she knows. Someone is trying to stop her from finding out her past. Could it be Evan Baxter, the handsome photographer she has given her one clue to?? You will have to read the story to find out. show less
Marylee Simson never promised to "never go back to Burlington!" as her aunt begged her to promise before she died. Now she is show more living where she supposedly was born and lived until her aunt whisked her away shortly after her parents died, when she was just a little girl. She is running a Craft store and trying to discover something about her and her parents, but it seems like she and her parents never existed! As she seeks help from different sources you begin to wander who she can trust with the information she knows. Someone is trying to stop her from finding out her past. Could it be Evan Baxter, the handsome photographer she has given her one clue to?? You will have to read the story to find out. show less
The last time I enjoyed a book of short stores as much as I did Strange Faces by Linda Hall, it was authored by Alice Munro.
Strange Faces has some similarities. Like the characters in Munro’s books, Hall’s are all ordinary people—housewives, mechanics, teachers. And like Munro’s tantalizing first lines, the beginnings of each story in Hall’s seven-story collection pulled me in so I wanted to read more.
Such beginnings give us a taste of Hall’s cat-and-mouse game with the reader as we try to figure out: is this person reliable, wearing a white or black hat, is he/she even sane?
Most of these tales are dark. Through her characters Hall plumbs the depths of the human heart’s capacity for jealousy, fear, desire for revenge, rage at being deserted. Several stories also speak about bullying. She asks ‘What if…?’ and then sees the matter through to its deadly conclusion. And so there’s murder and mayhem, but ever so genteelly disclosed.
Hall’s stories are full of homey but significant details and whiplash surprises—a very entertaining combination. show less
Strange Faces has some similarities. Like the characters in Munro’s books, Hall’s are all ordinary people—housewives, mechanics, teachers. And like Munro’s tantalizing first lines, the beginnings of each story in Hall’s seven-story collection pulled me in so I wanted to read more.
“I’ve suspected for some time that I should go to the authorities aboutshow more
Lewis. Why haven’t I? Fear, I suppose. Even anonymous calls aren’t anonymous” first lines of “Mad Scientist.”
“I’ve always been very protective of my sister. Even when she started killing people at her work” – first lines of “Weather Ladies.”
Such beginnings give us a taste of Hall’s cat-and-mouse game with the reader as we try to figure out: is this person reliable, wearing a white or black hat, is he/she even sane?
Most of these tales are dark. Through her characters Hall plumbs the depths of the human heart’s capacity for jealousy, fear, desire for revenge, rage at being deserted. Several stories also speak about bullying. She asks ‘What if…?’ and then sees the matter through to its deadly conclusion. And so there’s murder and mayhem, but ever so genteelly disclosed.
Hall’s stories are full of homey but significant details and whiplash surprises—a very entertaining combination. show less
Another good "love inspired suspense" story by Linda Hall. I like the way the back cover reads: "I wasn't always the law-abiding, churchgoing young woman I am today. Not too long ago I did shameful things and then ran far away, Not even my beloved finance, youth minister Greg Whitten, knows the truth about my past. But now my worst nightmare has come true. Someone has pictures of the old me and is sending them to me, to Greg, to the church. And if I want to live happily ever after - if I show more want to live at all - I'll need my newfound faith and Greg's love more than ever."
Someone is out there; who is out to ruin Lilly by bringing up her past? And who is out to hurt those closest to her? No clues from me. But I will say I didn't figure it out until the very end. A good suspenseful story. show less
Someone is out there; who is out to ruin Lilly by bringing up her past? And who is out to hurt those closest to her? No clues from me. But I will say I didn't figure it out until the very end. A good suspenseful story. show less
One reviewer worded this book quite well when it mentioned this book was about "deeply complex people caught up in a gothic plot". It was very well done, but a little too dark for me. Margaret has inherited her childhood home in Coffins Reach, Maine. It was where she was returning to to rest and paint and find peace after her daughter's sudden death and the beginnings of a breakup of her marriage. But here at her seafront home she will remember the tragic death of her sister, a fatal show more "accident" that took place 25 years ago. Her coming back will stir up the things that happened in the past, things that were covered up, and things someone does not want uncovered. As Margaret uncovers the truth hidden in a long buried family secret, she will have to come to grips with finding a new hope for her future.
The subject material for this story was not pretty, but told very well. The questions Margaret asks about God are questions many ask when faced with difficult and sad situations. I thought her Aunt Meg was the most help for Margaret. What was hard to comprehend is how family members could cover up such horrible things. A well told story, but not a very uplifting one for me. show less
The subject material for this story was not pretty, but told very well. The questions Margaret asks about God are questions many ask when faced with difficult and sad situations. I thought her Aunt Meg was the most help for Margaret. What was hard to comprehend is how family members could cover up such horrible things. A well told story, but not a very uplifting one for me. show less
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