Saturday, August 3, 2019

Fragments of Fear by Carrie Stuart Parks Review & Giveaway!


About the Book



Book: Fragments of Fear

Author: Carrie Stuart Parks

Genre: Suspense

Release date: July 23, 2019


 From award-winning author Carrie Stuart Parks comes a new novel with danger that reaches from a New Mexico Anasazi archaeological dig to micro- and nano-chip technology.



Evelyn Yvonne McTavish-Tavish to her friends-had her almost perfect world in Albuquerque, New Mexico, come to a crashing end with the suicide of her fiancé. As she struggles to put her life back together and make a living from her art, she’s given the news that her dog is about to be destroyed at the dog pound. Except she doesn’t own a dog. The shelter is adamant that the microchip embedded in the canine-with her name and address-makes it hers.

Tavish recognizes the dog as one owned by an archaeologist named Pat Caron because she did a commissioned drawing of the two of them months earlier. The simple solution is to return the dog to his owner, but she arrives only to discover Caron’s murdered body.

After meeting undercover FBI agent Sawyer Price the mystery deepens as more people start disappearing and Tavish becomes a target as well. Her only solution is to find the links between microchip technology, an Anasazi site in the desert, her fiancé’s death, a late-night radio show, and the dog. And the clock is ticking.



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About the Author



Carrie Stuart Parks is a Christy finalist as well as a Carol Award-winning author. She has won numerous awards for her fine art as well. An internationally known forensic artist, she travels with her husband, Rick, across the US and Canada teaching courses in forensic art to law-enforcement professionals. The author/illustrator of numerous books on drawing and painting, Carrie continues to create dramatic watercolors from her studio in the mountains of Idaho.




More from Carrie

Using Art to Solve Crime: Techniques Used by Forensic Artists



Since 1981, I’ve been a forensic artist—an amazing feat since I’m only . . .um. . . well, younger than that. In those years, I’ve seen some shifts and trends, but some things have never changed. Despite the overwhelming prevalence of computers in almost every other field, they have never been able to replace a trained forensic artist. Artists have an amazing toolbox of techniques we use to gather the information we need to help solve crime.


  1. The pencil. Any forensic artist worth her weight in graphite knows the power of the lowly pencil and a sketchpad. Law enforcement would love a photographic image of the suspect, but all we have to work with is memory…and memory is faulty. The more the image looks perfect, the more imperfect it is for helping to identify a suspect. We want the drawing to just suggest a likeness and eliminate those not similar.
  2. Now that we brought up the subject of memory, a forensic artist needs to understand how memory works. The average witness will remember between four and five facial features. When they describe the person they saw, they will do so from their strongest memory to their weakest memory, from most important to least important. We listen carefully to the order of facial features.
  3. Whole vs Parts. We don’t look at faces as individual parts, although a particularly outstanding nose or Marty Feldman eyes might catch our attention. We will remember the face as a whole, with the proportions of the face an unacknowledged part of that. Forensic artist prefer to use reference photographs where the whole face is viewed.
Want more? Check out the rest of my article at The Strand Magazine


Blog Stops

The Avid Reader, July 24
CarpeDiem, July 24
Livin’ Lit, July 26
The Becca Files, July 26
Cathe Swanson, July 27
Bigreadersite, July 29
Simple Harvest Reads, July 29 (Guest post from Mindy Houng)
Mary Hake, July 29
EmpowerMoms, July 30
By The Book, August 1
Remembrancy, August 2
amandainpa, August 2
Pause for Tales, August 3
Hallie Reads, August 4

Giveaway


To celebrate her tour, Carrie is giving away a grand prize of her book!!
Be sure to comment on the blog stops for nine extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.
https://promosimple.com/ps/e592/fragments-of-fear-celebration-tour-giveaway

I read this author's second novel (The Bones Will Speak) back when it released, and loved it, but hadn't yet gotten around to reading any of her other books. As soon as I saw this cover I knew I wanted to read this book (I mean come on, the lettering is gorgeous and the whole cover just screams awesome, suspenseful thrill ride!) and then when I read the description I was totally sold, and so I jumped at the chance to request a review copy! 
Oh, wow! It was indeed an awesome, suspenseful thrill ride, I couldn't put it down and read it start to finish in a little over a day! 
I love heroines that are strong, but also flawed and real, so it makes perfect sense that I instantly liked Tavish. Even though our socio-economic backgrounds are very different, I could relate to her in so many ways, and I felt myself learning, growing, and gaining a new perspective on things right alongside her! 
This book was SOOOO good, super suspenseful, and action packed from beginning to end! For a majority of the book I had no clue what the criminals were trying to hide, and that was totally okay with me because it kept me turning pages faster and faster to see what the next twist would be! 
I am a big romance novel fan, and while there is a bit of romance in this book it is a very light thread, the book is much heavier on the suspense/mystery side of things than the romance and I actually totally loved that, it was perfect for this particular book and made for a very refreshing change of pace! 
Oh, and Marley! I'm a huge animal lover and I absolutely adored Marley the dog, she was so sweet and her presence just added that perfect little something to the story, as well as many humorous moments that made me literally laugh out loud! 
I love this author's writing style and wit, and how she can write an amazing, spellbinding, completely gripping thriller, but at the same time she knows just when to lighten things up with a touch of humor!
Overall, I loved everything about Fragments of Fear and HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT! I loved every moment I spent reading it and hated to see it end! 
I am very much looking forward to this author's next book, and I plan to get a copy of her previous book, Formula of Deception and read it very soon! 
(5 Stars!)


I received a copy of this book through the CelebrateLit Team. Which did not influence my review in any way. All thoughts and opinions are one hundred percent my own! 
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