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5-Star Reviews for FORCED PERSPECTIVE!

August 27, 2022 by admin Leave a Comment

See what readers are saying.

5 STARS – “Forced Perspective” is a very accurate title for this astounding novel of suspense, as everything you think you know and understand is skewed and definitely not from the right perspective. I don’t think I’ve read such an intriguing and unique story in a long time. Right from the start, you’re thrust into Harper’s life of lies, with hidden terrors all around. The setting was fantastic and the ghostly vibe of Savannah, with it’s mist-shrouded streets and ghosts, added just the right touch of otherworldly mystery. This author excels and it’s almost impossible to think that she can get much better, but this book proves that she’s a master of the craft and only continues to improve with each explosive and compelling tale.

Donna Thompson

Amazon Reviewer

5 STARS – The first I’ve read of the author and look forward to more. The characters where well written and the storyline was incredible. The entire book had you wondering who really was the bad guy. Of course, I was surprised in the end which makes the book even better. I love mystery/thriller books and this fit just perfect in that category. Great read!

Barbara

Amazon, Goodreads
Brilliant Domestic Suspense Thriller

5 STARS – This is a brilliant read.

Wonderful well written plot and story line that had me engaged from the start.

Love the well fleshed out characters and found them believable.

Great suspense and found myself second guessing every thought I had continuously.

Can’t wait to read what the author brings out next.

Recommend reading.

Billie

Goodreads

5 STARS – Things are not as they seem. Years after her abduction along with her twin sister Catherine who died during their escape, Harper is finally doing what she loves and living in Savannah renovating a beautiful old house. However things start to change when she sees the ghost of her twin. The story will keep you wondering and the ending will surprise you.

Marian

Goodreads, Amazon

5 STARS – This is terror unlimited! The author has torn into the mystery and intrigue. Don’t trust anyone, believe nothing they say. The past is coming forward and Harper is in the middle of it. After her sister died in a boating accident that Harper was driving the boat many years ago, Harper is now seeing her twin sister ‘s ghost. But what is she trying to show Harper? This book will keep you on the edge of your seat!

JoAnne

Amazon, Goodreads

5 STARS – This compelling PG15 contemporary mafia suspense romance kept me up past my bedtime two nights in a row in order to finish it!

Barbara

Amazon

Filed Under: Books, Mystery, Reviews, Suspense, Uncategorized

FORCED PERSPECTIVE – New Book Release!

August 27, 2022 by admin Leave a Comment

FORCED PERSPECTIVE, a brilliant, new Domestic Suspense Thriller is LIVE!

In Alyssa Richards’s break-out new novel, a woman who trusts no one has to believe someone—but a shocking finale will turn everything upside down.

After running from her past for so long, Harper Brown is finally in a good place. She’s renovating a beautiful old home in Savannah, has lined up a dream job appraising Civil War antiquities, and is falling in love with the debonair Nick Chamberlain. Most importantly, her anxiety and paranoia are finally under control. But when her twin sister’s ghost appears shrouded in fog in the square across the street, Harper’s carefully assembled life begins to crumble. 

It’s time. The warning has Harper questioning everything Nick tells her. He does seem to be rushing their engagement. Digging deeper reveals a decade-old murder and an ex-wife in a coma after falling down a grand staircase. But was it an accident as he claims, or was she pushed? And what does the cryptic note wedged in Harper’s window mean? 

As more “accidents” happen, Harper doesn’t know who to trust—including herself. She’s convinced the past has caught up with her, that someone knows she’s not Harper Brown, and that she’s the next to die.

Blending classic Mary Higgins Clark and Alfred Hitchcock with the rich Gothic atmosphere of Savannah, Forced Perspective is domestic suspense at its page-turning best!

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Filed Under: Books, Mystery, Uncategorized Tagged With: Alyssa Richards, Domestic Suspense, Domestic Suspense Books, Domestic Suspense Thriller, Mystery Books, Savannah Books, Suspense Books

Review of Somewhere in Time by Jeri’s Book Attic

December 17, 2015 by Alyssa Leave a Comment

Somewhere in Time Book CoverReview of Somewhere in Time from Jeri’s Book Attic:

“Somewhere In Time” by Alyssa Richards is the second
book of the “The Fine Art of Deception” series and I think I need to steal my own review of “Undoing Time” … because this book continues in a wonderful way the journey that started in “Undoing Time”.
Just like the first book – “Somewhere in Time” features an interesting concept of Romance, Paranormal Elements and Crime.

And I devoured in just a few hours. [Read more…] about Review of Somewhere in Time by Jeri’s Book Attic

Filed Under: Mystery, News

Cover Reveal for Somewhere in Time

October 6, 2015 by Alyssa Leave a Comment

The day has finally come for the Cover Reveal of Book 2 in The Fine Art of Deception Series –Somewhere in Time!!

Pageflex Persona [document: PRS0000035_00023]It’s countdown time to Book 2 in The Fine Art of Deception Series – Somewhere in Time !!!

The release is imminent, so if you haven’t yet signed up for my newsletter, you can do so here:   https://www.alyssarichards.com/get-free-paranormal-romance-books/  

Once registered, you’ll be the first to know the 411 on all giveaways and special deals on my books !!!

Filed Under: Ghosts, Mystery, News Tagged With: Somewhere in Time

How to Get Away With Murder

October 13, 2014 by Alyssa Leave a Comment

How to Get Away With Murder
How to Get Away With Murder

How to Get Away With Murder. This is my new favorite show.

Not because of the acting, or the writing, though both are great. It’s another Shonda Rimes show, so you know the chances are high that the writing and the acting will be strong. But I like it because in the first episode, the lead character tells the group that they may think they know their best friend, their roommate, their neighbor, spouse or lover. But they don’t.

This is so true.

Can you see me high-fiving the TV?

Until you’ve been psychic – really, very psychic, you don’t know anyone.

I was having lunch with two friends about ten years ago. Tom said that most of the men he knew had cheated on their wives. The few he thought hadn’t cheated were either 1. Thinking about it, or 2. Better than most about lying about it.

Christina said that she knew – KNEW – her husband had never cheated.

I just nodded. I’d been cheated on several times. And I also had that funny feeling that Christina was fooling herself.

A couple of weeks passed and I thought maybe I had escaped the dirty details of whatever her husband had been up to. But, no. In an unguarded moment all those details came flooding forth. He hadn’t just cheated on her once, but several times. Many times. They’re divorced now. Though she still leans on him for financial support. He even co-signed on her home loan. Odd situation.

Then, last week I had dinner with my friend Jennie at the Pearl Oyster Bar in the West Village. She went on. And on. And on about a political candidate that she really thinks is flawless. She was not only reading from his press releases, but had ingested the entire pitcher of his toxic Kool-Aid. It was nauseating. Everything she said was a repeat of some opinion she’d heard on tv or the radio. She didn’t have one authentic thought.

He’s run on the platform of supporting women and minorities. “I’m sort of obligated to vote for him,” she said.

Really? But what about reality? What about who he really is and what his real agenda is? Aren’t you obligated to see that, too? For your sanity?

I don’t have the luxury of seeing only the sanitized image of politicians and celebrities that is put out for public consumption. Instead I’m the kid who stands in the crowd and says, “Hey! The King has no clothes on!”

A real buzz kill, I know.

So, while people are worshiping some image the press camp has put out for the world to swallow hook, line and sinker, I’m standing on the sidelines shaking my head. Sometimes I’m there by myself. Until someone else catches on. Which often takes a while.

No political candidate is flawless. Because our political system is built for those pursuing power. And if you’re not savvy enough to see that, then I have some land I’d like to sell you.

“Oh, but look at his family,” she said. “I think he’s such a sweetheart.”

Really? He took a choreographed walk while holding hands with his wife and you swallowed that media image? Wow.

I get that people need someone to believe in. But there are so many people, who are far more worthy and with far more integrity than a politician or a celebrity who deserve your admiration. Wake up, people.

Sometimes people are brilliant con artists. (I would put most politicians in that category.) I get that. The world is full of stories of men and women who conned someone into believing they are someone they aren’t.

Most women I know have been fooled by a man or three. Sara, a former co-worker of mine, has terrible taste in men. Terrible. She is SO easily fooled by men.

We could be standing in a room of 200 eligible men, and she’ll pick out the most fucked up one in the bunch and take him home. Then  she’ll email me endlessly about how he’s taken advantage of her in some way. I’m hoping she’ll stay single for a while.

She’ll find the one who is secretly married, has issues with possessiveness or is just destined to jack with her in some way. Only every time.

She has her share of Daddy issues. I’m sure a therapist would have a field day tracing her appetite for inappropriate men back to her desire to save her father from his emotional suffering. She’s always trying to rescue someone. But I also wonder if Sara has ever been interested in seeing people for who they really are.

Honestly, like so many women, she would rather see the romanticized image he puts forth. She wants the dream. Not the reality.

Aw, look at the pretty picture. He’s such a sweetheart. Yeah. Right. Call me when you’ve left the land of delusion.

This is how women end up losing everything from their happiness to their money to their lives to men. Because when they met Mr. Wonderful, they preferred the romantic, fuzzy around the edges, Disney-esque view they projected onto him, as opposed to the reality that lurked beneath. Because what fun would that be, right?

Oh, and Jennie who loves her political candidate so much? She’s been married and divorced three times now, I think. Once to a guy who turned out to be a drug addict, he took all their money and wasted it on his addiction. I could go on about her other two husbands, but you get the idea. I just don’t understand why, after all she’s been through, that she wouldn’t at least develop an appetite for wanting to see people more clearly. Maybe she likes the drama.

Women, people, are so easily fooled, not because the con artist is so talented, but most often because people just don’t want to see what’s really there. I get that.

I may not always like the discouraging information I psychically see about people, but honestly, at the end of the day I’d rather see than not see.

 

 

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: happiness, Murder

The Witching Hour

October 4, 2014 by admin Leave a Comment

Haunting footsteps appear during the witching hour
Haunting footsteps appear during the witching hour

It’s 3:30 a.m in Savannah. What I would call the witching hour. It’s the time when I’m most often awakened by ghosts. Like tonight.

First there were footsteps. Not just the sound of them. But also the feel of them. You know, like when someone runs down the hall and you feel the vibration from the pounding of their feet? Like that.

At first I thought someone was in trouble. Maybe my sister had returned home without my knowing, and maybe she was running down the hall because she was ill.

I jumped out of bed, opened my bedroom door and looked down the hallway.

No one.

The sound and the feel of the footsteps had disappeared. But the hallway held that eerie feeling. That feeling where you know someone is there, but they’re hiding from you.

I waited a few moments in the quiet. Looked around. Then convinced myself I’d had a vivid dream, and went back to bed.

Then, just as I’d snuggled myself under the covers, my eyes flew open.  The footsteps resounded through the hallway again.

Someone was messing with me.

I waited a few moments to see if they would go away. Sometimes ghosts just wandered in and out.

But the footsteps kept on.

Up the hall. Down the hall.

When I growled a cry of frustration, a man’s laughter rang out from somewhere just beyond the end of the hallway.

I walked into the hallway again but found no one.

Quiet.

As I made my way back to my bed, they began again.

The witching hour typically refers to the hour exactly between day and night, when witches and demons are supposed to be their most powerful. Most people think that means midnight. But I think the witching hour begins at 3:00 a.m.  It’s the time when ghosts’ are at their strongest and humans’ energy is at its weakest.

“Having fun?” I yelled and balled my hands into fists.

His laughter squealed as he ran.

All day long he probably tried in vain to get someone’s attention. But the humans who still had their bodies had enough energy during the day to tune him out. In the light of day he probably didn’t have nearly enough energy to make a good noise.

But at 3:30 in the morning? He had the energy of ten men. While all I wanted to do was get a little more sleep.

Perhaps I ought to be grateful that he didn’t want to charge into my bedroom and pace at the foot of the bed. Then I’d be the one running up and down the hallway.

My bare feet padded quietly on the dark hardwood floors as I slowly walked to the end of the hallway. I could feel him, but I couldn’t see him.

“Look, I can appreciate the fun you’re having here. But I need to sleep,” I said into the moonlit darkness.

A lump swelled in my throat as I felt his energy build in excitement and move toward me.  In a gust he moved through me, his rushing blew my hair back and my nose filled with the scent of cheap cologne and stale beer.

I stood in the empty hallway and sighed with disgust.

***

The cool morning air blew in through the screens on the back porch and I pulled my robe up around my neck, squished myself a little deeper into the couch pillows. I sipped hot espresso and turned the page of my newest ebook. It felt remarkably good to have a small, quiet space all to myself.

 

Filed Under: Mystery, Paranormal Tagged With: haunted house

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