A visit with author Diane Rapp
Diane Rapp is a split-personality author, who writes mysteries and science-fantasy novels. She began writing fiction to cure insomnia while selling real estate, but she got serious after publishing a Caribbean guidebook with her daughter. Research for the guidebook helped her create a cruise ship mystery series. Readers learn a bout the main characters and get a glimpse of the crew’s life aboard a ship. Of course there are murders to solve with danger and romance mixed in with the action. Diane vividly describes actual places ships visit along the route. Her most recent cruise-ship thriller, DNA Stalker, begins with the Jonestown Massacre nearly forty years ago. The characters must guard six sets of identical twins, who are targeted by a ruthless stalker.
Diane’s first love is actually science-fantasy. As an animal lover, it felt natural to devise stories involving telepathic wolves who interact with humans on a distant planet. The series begins on Earth, introducing the ancestors of a pack that eventually colonizes the distant planet, Drako. As humans and wolves interact in the future, the wolves wonder if the “two-legs” they meet can actually be intelligent. A feudal government makes the survival of new arrivals dangerous. Follow an intricate cast of characters as they try to fend off an attack from space.
Between writing mysteries and science-fantasy, Diane diverged to write an historical novel combined with modern adventure. The characters solve clues found in an ancestor’s journal to locate a family gold mine in the gold country of Colorado, facing dangerous terrain and people out to steal the gold.
Diane is currently working on a five-book series of mysteries with NO murders. Dog and cat sidekicks work alongside their humans to unravel kidnappings, robbery, terrorism, and archeologic vandalism. The first novel, REALTORS FOR SALE, features Bentley, Diane’s own talented Standard Poodle. He uses his agility training to protect his mistress from harm.
Website: https://www.quicksilvernovels.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quicksilvernovels
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DianeRapp
Amazon page: https://Author.to/DianeRapp
Bookbub: http://bit.ly/2BOuDUF
Book links for attached covers:
Realtors for Sale viewbook.at/RealtorsForSale
Murder Caribbean-Style http://viewbook.at/HighSeas1
Golden Legacy http://viewBook.at/GoldenLegacy
The Alphas http://viewBook.at/TheAlphas
DNA Stalker http://myBook.to/DNA-Stalker
ABOUT DIANE’S NEWEST BOOK:
Tamara Owens is a young widow starting her life
again…finally. She recently passed a real estate licensing exam and began
selling property in the coastal city of Santa Barbara, California. In an
emergency meeting of the Board of Realtors, Tamara learns that female realtors
have gone missing from open houses this past weekend. The first woman
disappeared from a high-end open house in San Francisco last Thursday, another
from Sacramento on Saturday, and the most recent disappearance was from Paso Robles
on Sunday. Police warn that someone working in Santa Barbara might be the next
victim, and brokers must instigate a program to protect their employees.
Could Tamara become a target for the serial
kidnapper? To protect female agents in the office, her brokers decide to use
trained guard dogs to protect women agents who hold open houses, but Tamara
already has Bentley. He is an agility-trained Standard Poodle, more of an
acrobat than an attacker. He’s hardly the scary kind of dog normally used for
this task, but Bentley’s trainer believes he has natural talent and the desire
to protect his beloved mistress. Would Bentley be large enough to fend off an
assailant? He has a mouth full of sharp teeth, and he can jump higher than the
trained shepherds in the kennel.
Can Tamara escape from a serial kidnapper, who
has decided to add her to the collection of beautiful women? What will happen
to the kidnapped women after the collection is complete?
