Of course I wanted my favorite people to know that my publisher, Bell Bridge Books, and Amazon, have joined together for a brief promo for Lowcountry Bribe - A Carolina Slade Mystery.

Today and tomorrow, May 10 and 11, you can download the Kindle version for free. Yup. That's no charge.

I didn't want you to miss out, so please excuse this interruption of your day for this great news.

Thanks so very much for your support!!!

Hope

ALREADY RECEIVING GREAT REVIEWS AT AMAZON!!
4.8 of 5 STARS - 60 REVIEWS!!

The cliché simply cannot be avoided here. I read this in two sittings, getting up to use eye drops for my aching eyes around 3:00 a.m. so that I could continue to read until 5:00 a.m. This debut novel by Ms Clark is THAT compelling. Protagonist Carolina Slade must constantly do battle against US governmental bureaucrats, a pig for a husband, a douche bag of a boss, condescending federal agents and scumbag clients to get someone to handle the illegal bribe situation she gets offered.

And then her kids and family dog get pulled into the whole illegal mess.

There is nothing flat about Carolina Slade. She can feel the angst and compassion for a dead office worker, but isn't about to lay down before sniping female office workers, yet is a working professional who knows the work has to get done in spite of it all. And the best part of it--she is a devoted mom. Not an easy formula.

As I read, I kept asking myself: How much more turmoil and terror can Ms Clark fling at Carolina Slade? The answer is: C. Hope Clark flings it right up to the end, and she spares us nothing in the final storm-chased, bloody, pig-crap, and muddy revelation. Author! Author!  ~Rebecca Gee
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Lowcountry Bribe's first paragraph alone could win a Pulitzer Prize! That paragraph, along with tight, precise writing that follows, kept me reading long into the night.

Few books have the 3-D characterization C. Hope Clark's novel does. I confidently predict you won't soon forget these larger-than-life characters. The character who dominates this novel is Carolina Slade and you either love her or you don't. Readers should know, however, that Slade is sort of like a southern female James Bond --- and she's believable in her role.

This novel is a murder mystery, a thriller, a romance and other than Lowcountry Bribe, the good news is that this is the first in a series of mystries. There's more adventure and laughs coming and all who love this book are un-patiently waiting for the next one. Clark's writing is fresh, strong and definitely memorable. A great book that is just downright difficult to put down!  ~Joyce Norman
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Lowcountry Bribe grabs you with the first sentence: "O-positive primer wasn't what I had in mind for the small office, but Lucas Sherwood hadn't given the decor a second thought when he blew out the left side of his head with a .45." And doesn't let you go until the last chapter. Highly recommended!
~John Gordon, Author, "Gathering Roses"
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Wow. This was quite a suspenseful book; I read it in two days, since I only put it down when I had to do something else. I found the characters to be well drawn and believable, and it was obvious that the writer was someone who knew what working for the Federal Government was like from the inside. All the bureaucracy and endless red tape and lines of command are endemic. I know that world too. I worked for for three years in Denver and Dallas for the IRS.

More to the point, C. Hope Clark fooled this old literature doc with the twists and turns of her tightly constructed plot. It all came together in the end and something I suspected from the first pages of the novel was more important than I had ever thought. I highly recommend this novel. ~Victoria J. Chance, VJC Bookworm