Shirley Burton

Canadian author Shirley Burton has released her seventeenth novel in popular genres including thriller/suspense novels, whodunit mystery books, and feel-good Christmas stories. Her charming fantasy novel provides an inspiring message of courage, and her acclaimed ten-generation historical fiction lets the reader live a five-hundred year span from France to the New World. In research, Shirley traveled to the locations of her stories, walking the streets of characters, enabling the reader to have a sense of being there.

In The Wish Store, published for Christmas 2021, the town of Chimney Ridge, Vermont becomes a magical place as wishes are transformed into reality and goodwill into deeds. An inspiring Christmas story as Rudy Hancock’s Emporium is the town’s focal point. With a lad helping as an elf, Rudy and the townsfolk deliver the wishes of a veteran, a musician, a widow, a young girl, and a wanderer who becomes a benefactor. At the Fezziwig Ball, the town kicks up its heels in it annual uproarious celebration.

Epitaph of an Imposter, published in 2021, is an entertaining suspense mystery with an imposter, a blackmailer, and unscrupulous members of the House of Lords. An astute collector of rare books in London comes upon an incriminating set of valuable post-war family journals of stuffy Lord Tannahill, with secrets of past crimes and of an imposter who crept into the Tannahill family. The bookseller conspires with an employee to expose a blackmail plot, as the drama intertwines the past and present generations linked to an old English manor.

Don't Open the Door, set in Manhattan and released in January 2021, is a nail-biting suspense thriller to an unpredictable ending. The principal character in the opening scenes, becomes missing for a mysterious two year span, finding herself wandering on Fifth Avenue unaware of the lapse or the mysterious history of her husband and the past criminal interference in their lives.

Shirley's popular thriller series, The Thomas York Series, has released its fifth book, The Paris Network. Previous titles in the fast-moving suspense series are Under the Ashes, The Frizon, Rogue Courier, and Secret Cache. Follow the drama and adventure of an attractive young and vibrant couple, Rachel and Thomas as they escape risks of known criminals in locations in the USA and Europe, including Albany, New York, Paris, Amsterdam, London, and Napa Valley. A sixth book in the series, Versailles Masquerade, will be released in 2022.

The popular historical fiction, Homage: Chronicles of a Habitant, follows ten generations from France to their settlement in New France/Quebec, from the 1500s to the 1900s. Written in a light style, the characters come alive paralleled with real events in history as the reader shares the realities, hardships, and pleasures of each generation.

Sentinel in the Moors is a light suspense/mystery set in the charming town of Staithes in the Yorkshire Moors, England, following scoundrels stealing Viking artifacts and gold.

Red Jackal, a thriller on the Mediterranean, begins with the theft of Ottoman jewels in Istanbul and escalates with drama on a cruise ship to Rome. Walk the streets of Istanbul, researched by Shirley for her characters.

For the Christmas seasons, Shirley's nostalgic, feel-good stories are perfect gifts and stocking stuffers. Clockmaker's Christmas is set in the 60s, soaking up the Christmas spirit in Manhattan and at Heidelberg's Christmas Market. Christmas Treasure Box is a warm family Christmas story set in rural Quebec.

A light, whodunit mystery series features Inspector Furnace, in an old-fashioned British style. Mystery at Grey Stokes has a light-hearted murder at Christmas dinner, with the guests as suspects. Swindle - Mystery at Sea finds Inspector Furnace and his wife on a transatlantic sailing, with a group of suspects for a crime on board.

Boy from Saint-Malo is a fantasy novel for a young adult to an adult reader, following the adventures of a lad from the French town where Jacques Cartier lives. He dreams and aspires to travel with the great explorer, and his imagination takes him to encounters with the ancient world's great thinkers.

"There came a point in life when it was time to take the leap into writing. I sincerely hope that readers enjoy the personality of my characters and the twists and suspense in my storylines. I'm forever grateful for the opportunity to write and express myself in this way." - Shirley Burton.

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