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TERROR IN TOPAZ - COVER REVEAL!

3/13/2023

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TA DA! 

I am delighted to reveal the cover for the fourth (and final) book in the Harriet Gordon Mystery series.

I know many loyal readers will be sad to say farewell to Harriet and Curran but all good series have their own arc and this has reached an end!  But never say never and perhaps they may be back for more adventures in the future?
 
The ebook is now up for pre order (with print and audio books to follow). Click the button below to go to the buy links.
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If you want to keep up to date with the latest news don’t forget you can subscribe to Alison’s newsletter… Click HERE  (And get the Harriet prequel for free!)



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ABOUT TERROR IN TOPAZ

The final episode in the riveting HARRIET GORDON MYSTERIES.
  
The chance to pursue a new opportunity takes Harriet and her brother Julian, to Kuala Lumpur,  but death is waiting…
 
Singapore 1910:   Harriet Gordon has been dismissed from the job she loved and finds herself cast adrift. When her brother receives an invitation to visit a prestigious school in Kuala Lumpur, she and Julian decide to leave Singapore behind for a few days, but their pleasant visit takes a dark turn when a visitor to the school is shot dead on the front steps of the headmaster’s bungalow.
After being suspended from the Straits Settlements Police, Inspector Robert Curran has disappeared on a personal quest to find a missing girl but his suspension is not all it appears and he receives secretive orders to investigate the mysterious Topaz Club, which seems to be at the centre of high-level corruption within the colonial government of Malaya.  
The uninvestigated death of a woman with links to the Topaz Club, brings Harriet and Curran together in a determination to shut down the notorious establishment for good.
But a devious criminal stands in the way and it is going to take Harriet and Curran all their resources to bring justice for the victims of the Topaz Club and in doing so, find what it is they have been looking for in each other. 

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The next Harriet Gordon Mystery...

9/19/2022

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Readers have been asking me when the next Harriet Gordon Mystery can be expected... 

The short answer is probably around August next year. 

The long answer is Terror in Topaz hit a stumbling block and for reasons I won't go into, there has been a considerable delay on the administrative end. This flowed into a delay on the creative end ie... I still have to finish writing the book and I'm not a very fast writer.

So my profuse apologies to those anxious readers who are chomping at the bit to see how the series ends (yes, Book 4 will be the last). Having said that I am not saying goodbye to the characters forever... there may be other stand-alone stories in the wind! 

​In the meantime, you are very welcome to peruse my backlist of Alison Stuart titles... there are mysteries mixed into the historical (Lord Somerton's Heir, Gather the Bones and The Goldminer's Sister and coming in January, The Homecoming) and if you have not already signed up to my email list, that is the best place to get updates on Harriet and her friends AND you get a free download of Harriet's prequel - THE UMBRELLA. 

​Now I better get my head down and finish that book! 

Alison x


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RELEASE DAY FOR EVIL IN EMERALD

3/29/2022

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It felt like this day would never come!

EVIL IN EMERALD was written during the height of the Melbourne lockdowns which one would think would be an ideal time to be writing but I have to admit, I struggled. While it seemed like the world I knew was slipping away from my grasp, there were days when I stared at an empty screen. At one point I pretty much scrapped what I had written and started again.

But it all came together in the end and I am delighted to see EVIL IN EMERALD finally get the wings to fly. 

The inspiration for this story comes from my own brush with amateur theatre in my early twenties when I joined the local Gilbert and Sullivan Society. It must have had a profound influence on me because G&S themes have run in other books. GATHER THE BONES, for example, has several oblique references to RUDDIGORE (which I think was the show I had the most fun in!) - indeed the title itself is a riff on a song from Ruddigore. 

PIRATES OF PENZANCE marked the height of my theatrical ambition - I actually scored a role (not just third chorus girl from the left). I was cast as Isabel - one of Major General Stanley's daughters. I had a whole two lines to say and no singing but it still gave me proper billing and a place in the 'principal's dressing room'. Oh to be that young (and that thin!) again. 

Just as in the last Harriet Gordon Mystery, Harriet and Curran cross with another part of my past (the military), in this book Harriet gets to reprise my experience of an amateur dramatic society. Not that we had any murders... 

So Pour, oh, pour, the pirate sherry; Fill, oh, fill the pirate glass... and drink to EVIL IN EMERALD - Available now in print, digital and audio! 




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A much younger (and thinner) Alison as Isabel in Pirates of Penzance.
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Read an excerpt from REVENGE IN RUBIES

8/27/2020

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IF you would like to read an excerpt from REVENGE IN RUBIES... AND go in the draw to win one of two Advance Review Copies. Click HERE or the the link below!

REVENGE IN RUBIES will be released on 15th September! 

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The Countdown is on!

8/17/2020

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It's less than a month until the release of the second Harriet Gordon Mystery - REVENGE IN RUBIES!

If you join my email list between now and the end of August, you will go in the draw to win one of two Advance Review Copies of REVENGE IN RUBIES! Click HERE for more information and to PREORDER.
SIGN UP TO WIN
IN THE MEANTIME ENJOY THIS JIGSAW... 
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A CHANCE TO WIN A $160 AMAZON GIFT CARD

2/11/2020

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ENTER GIVEAWAY
I have just finished the first pass edits for REVENGE IN RUBIES (Book 2 of the Harriet Gordon Mysteries) and seen a concept layout for the cover which is GORGEOUS! This is when it all starts to feel real.

As the wheels of the publishing industry grind into gear I thought I'd let you know about an opportunity to go in the draw to win a $160 Amazon Gift Card just by following my A.M. STUART profile on Book Bub... that easy! The Rafflecopter closes on Feb 20. 

CLICK THE BUTTON ABOVE TO ENTER!

(Revenge in Rubies will be released on 15 September:  Click HERE for Preorder Links!)

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HOLDING THE BOOK... and a couple of chances to win a copy!

6/12/2019

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Nothing... and I mean... nothing rocks a writer's world more than that moment when you hold your book in your hand for the first time.

SINGAPORE SAPPHIRE has been the book of my heart for maybe fifteen years now and after many, many rejections, I have to keep pinching myself to remind me that on 6 August Harriet and all her friends are coming to life! 

To celebrate the forthcoming release, there are a couple of opportunities for you too, to hold an Advance Review Copy (ARC) of SINGAPORE SAPPHIRE in your hand too. 

Scroll down for details!

1. Sign up to Harriet's newsletter... 

This is one for everyone - where ever in the world you live.
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Anyone who signs up to Harriet's newsletter before 30 June 2019 goes in a draw to win one of two ARCs of SINGAPORE SAPPHIRE! Just click the button below... 
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2. For US Readers - an exclusive Book Sweep 

Click HERE  (or the image below) to enter
for a chance to win an advance reading copy
​of SINGAPORE SAPPHIRE by A. M. Stuart!
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The sweep will run from 12 -26 June
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A Goodreads #Giveaway - SINGAPORE SAPPHIRE

3/26/2019

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My lovely publisher at Berkley Mystery is offering TWENTY FIVE copies of SINGAPORE SAPPHIRE in a Goodreads Giveaway.  
The opportunity to enter will run from 25 March to 8 April and is available only for US readers.
Click HERE to enter... 

H
owever anyone (from wherever you are) who signed up for this list before the end of June still goes in my own giveaway draw so stay tuned!

​AMS


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Introducing Harriet Gordon...

3/5/2019

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Welcome to Notes from Harriet's Typewriter... the news and updates for the Harriet Gordon Mystery series. 

In this post, I get to introduce you to the main protagonist of the new series... Harriet Gordon.

I first met Harriet in the microfiche room of the Singapore National Library.  Of course, she wasn’t known as Harriet Gordon, her name was Mrs Howell and in March 1905 she placed an advertisement in the Straits Times, offering her services as a Stenographer and Typist. She guaranteed “RAPID & CAREFUL work together with ABSOLUTE SECRECY” (the capitals are hers). The now long forgotten Mrs. Howell’s advertisement jumped off the microfiche at me. I loved her commitment to ABSOLUTE SECRECY, and slowly the character of Harriet Gordon, widow, typist, stenographer and failed suffragette began to form. 
(On the left is the original advert I found in the 1905 Straits and on the right is the advert Harriet placed in the Straits Times... and the start of her adventures!)
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Over the next few years, I started to build her world… her friends, her family and most importantly (for Harriet) her partner in crime, the enigmatic Inspector Robert Curran, head of the Detective Branch of the Straits Settlements Police Force. Over future posts I will introduce you to other characters in Harriet's world including colonial Singapore itself… 

SINGAPORE SAPPHIRE is the first of, what I hope, will be an ongoing historical mystery series with Harriet Gordon and Inspector Curran at its heart. There are so many stories brewing in the tropical heat of the Malay Peninsula where truth and corpses tend to decompose quickly!

Although SINGAPORE SAPPHIRE is not due for release until 6 August, it is already available for preoorder... in print or digital (all the links are in the button below). 

I have been waiting a long time to share Harriet with you. I hope you love her as much as I do!


A.M. Stuart ​
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