Award Winning Author And Traveling Researcher Donna Fletcher Crow Announces The Trans-Canada Adventure, Upcoming Monastery Murders Series Novel

    WILMINGTON, NC, November 21, 2019 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Donna Fletcher Crow is a multi-award winning author of 50 books. While she concentrates heavily on British Christian history, a more detailed description might be that she is a traveling researcher who engages people and places from Britain's past and present, drawing comparisons and contrasts between past and present for today's reader.

In keeping with that tradition, Donna recently embarked upon a Trans-Canada journey by train that will serve as background for the sixth book in her Monastery Murders series entitled 'Against All Fierce Hostility'. She has also started a new blog series - an online travelogue - that documents her Canadian journey and treats readers to stunning imagery and richly detailed descriptions at https://donnafletchercrow.com/articles.php?cat=8. Much like the panoramic content of her award-winning novels, the new blog entries allow readers to share vividly the experience of an excursion across the Canadian landscape. In many ways it is better than a seat on the train, as here we are treated to Donna's retelling of events, often peppered with a healthy dose of humor.

She says, "This was a 'bucket list experience' for my husband and myself. I am delighted to be able to share it with my readers, both on my blog and in my up-coming novel. Since one of my goals as a writer is to give my readers a 'you are there' experience, I hope you'll come along with me."

Donna Fletcher Crow is the author of 50 books, mostly novels of British history. The entire Monastery Murders Series features atmospheric contemporary crimes with their roots buried deep in the middle ages. Books in the series include 'A Very Private Grave', 'A Darkly Hidden Truth', 'An Unholy Communion', 'A Newly Crimsoned Reliquary' and 'An All-Consuming Fire' and the upcoming 'Against All Fierce Hostility.'

Readers may wish to consider picking up copies of the currently published books in the Monastery Murders series before the new novel is published. Crow says, "Each book can be read on its own, but I think it's always fun to have the backstory. Especially in this series because one of my favorite parts of it is growing Felicity up. She has made great strides, but her know-it-all impetuosity still gives Antony some serious anxiety.

"In book 6 The Monastery Murders moves to Canada when Antony is invited to lecture on the British saints who inspired the founding of Toronto and Felicity couriers an ancient manuscript connected with Saint Patrick to monasteries in Montreal and Vancouver. A spectacular train journey across the breadth of the continent carries them even further away from the murder Felicity witnessed in England. Or does it?"

The award-winning 'Glastonbury' is her best-known work, which received the prestigious First Place, Historical Novel, award from the National Federation of Press Women. Readers and reviewers have raved about 'Glastonbury', calling it "The best of its kind," "richly fascinating," "beautifully researched,", "gloriously evocative," and "panoramic." One Amazon reader said, "WHAT a work! Every reader can be enveloped in the sheer scope and quality, every historian be constantly nodding at the precise detail and accuracy, and every Christian can rejoice in the fullness of scripture. For me it is simply beyond descriptive praise. I would urge all who value truth to treat themselves to a feast."

The Daughters of Courage, 'Kathryn', 'Elizabeth' and 'Stephanie' is a pioneer family saga based on the stories of Crow's own family and other Idaho pioneers in the Kuna, Nampa and Boise area. A short story on her blog entitled "A Nostalgic Fourth of July" is based on a scene from 'Kathryn: Days of Loss and Hope'.

The Elizabeth & Richard Mysteries is a literary suspense series using literary figures as background: Rudyard Kipling in 'The Flame Ignites', Dorothy L Sayers in 'The Shadow of Reality', Shakespeare in 'A Midsummer Eve's Nightmare', and Jane Austen in both 'A Jane Austen Encounter' and 'A Most Singular Venture'. Watch for 'A Prodigious Sum of Corpses: Seeking Sanditon at Jane Austen's Seashore', which will take the reader to the sites featured in Donna's current blog series, following the steps of a murderer.

The Lord Danvers Victorian true-crime series is an Amazon bestseller in the British Detectives category. Books in the series include 'A Lethal Spectre', 'A Most Inconvenient Death', 'Grave Matters', 'To Dust You Shall Return' and 'A Tincture of Murder'. Donna provides a no-charge download of 'A Tincture of Murder' for those who sign up for her newsletter. More information is available at her website.

Where There is Love, a 6-book series of the enduring legacy of love and faith, featuring historic people and events of the 18th and 19th centuries. Where Love Begins, book 1, has just been released in print for the first time. It is the story of Catherine Peronnet whose world is in tatters. Charles Wesley is engaged to another, her brother beaten by an angry mob, and her favorite pupil forced to leave school. Catherine endures the terrors of a circuit-ride, a threatened French invasion and the Great London Earthquake before finding happiness. Other titles in the series are: Where Love Illumines, Where Love Triumphs, Where Love Restores, Where Love Shines, and Where Love Calls.

Donna Fletcher Crow's work has received a number of high-level industry honors. These include:

Where Love Begins, Best Historical Romance, Pinnacle Awards 2019
A Lethal Spectre, Best Mystery, Pinnacle Awards, 2019
Glastonbury, First Place, Historical Fiction, National Federation of Press Women Award of Merit
The Banks of the Boyne, Silver Angel; First Place Historical Fiction, National Federation Press Women
The Fields of Bannockburn, First Place Historical Fiction, National Federation Press Women
Professional Achievement Award, Northwest Nazarene College
Juvenile Books Award of Merit, Idaho Press Women
Top Idaho Author
Pacesetter Award, Mt. Hermon Writers Conference
Outstanding Historical Fiction, Idaho Press Women, National Federation of Press Women,
Idaho Writer of the Year
Best Inspirational Novel, Finalist Romance Writers of America
Writer of the Year, Mt. Hermon Writers Conference

Donna is available for media interviews and can be reached by email at [email protected]. All of her books are available at online book retailers. More information, including a no-charge download of 'A Tincture of Murder', is available at her website at https://www.donnafletchercrow.com.

Donna and her husband live in Boise, Idaho. They have 4 adult children and 14 grandchildren living on 3 continents. Donna is a former English literature teacher and lifelong Anglophile. Idahoans with long memories will remember her as a former Queen of the Snake River Stampede, Miss Rodeo Idaho and runner-up for Miss Rodeo America. She is an enthusiastic gardener.

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