Multi-Book Spotlight Tour featuring Marianne Scott | 4 Books plus a Guest Post from the Author | #Mystery #Thriller @mariannescott44 @iReadBookTours
A book blog tour from iRead Book Tours.
Thank you to the author, publisher, & Lauren at iRead for providing me with the information for this tour. 
Today, I’m featuring four books by Marianne Scott, along with a guest post from Marianne on how she creates relatable characters. I have previously read and reviewed these books, so you’ll find links to each review. Please join me on a Christmas Book Tour of these giftable mystery thrillers. If not for someone on your list, then you should treat yourself!
Book Details
Finding Ruby Draker by Marianne Scott
Published by Crowe Creations on Mat 29, 2023
Genres: Adult Fiction 18+, Mystery, Thriller
Format: eBook, Hardcover, Paperback
Pages: 388
Kathleen Jones has lived a protected and typical suburban life, nothing unexpected in her carefully controlled and planned existence. She s about to complete her college degree and is ready to start a successful career but after completing her last exam she comes home to find her world has been turned upside down.
Her home has been torched and her parents and little brother killed. If that s not bad enough, she is kidnapped and drugged unconscious by strangers posing as police officers. When she awakes she discovers that everything has changed her face, her name, and everything she believed to be true.
But things get worse. Hardly recovered from surgery, she is whisked away under the cover of darkness as more men storm the clinic with guns. It seems that the men who abducted her are not her greatest threat. Now on a private charter on its way to Nice, France, her abductors are calling her Ruby, Ruby Draker!"
Purchase Links for Finding Ruby Draker by Marianne Scott
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Please read my review of Finding Ruby Draker by Marianne Scott.
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Shadows in the Aftermath by Marianne Scott
Published by Crowe Creations on June 2023
Genres: Adult Fiction 18+, Mystery, Thriller
Format: eBook, Paperback
Pages: 346
Ruby Draker has found new strength, and is ready to move on after Felix Szabo devastated the Draker estate in Nice, France. Three Drakers are dead leaving Ruby in grief and with thoughts of revenge.
The Drakers are a family built of survivors; each rescued from Felix Szabo, a psychopath, who sought to murder his former agents at the CIA whom he believed betrayed him. The Drakers’ sole mission is to stop Szabo from adding more victims to his list, and although he also perished during the invasion, his legacy continues to haunt them.
When the Drakers learn that Robert Draker, presumed dead since the shoot-out at Robert’s farmhouse, may be alive and at a rehab clinic in Portland, Maine, the Drakers know it could be a set up, but they have no choice but to try to find him and bring Robert home.
Shocked that Robert may be alive after all, the family head from France to America to find him. It’s only when they arrive in the west that they realize finding Robert won’t be as easy as they thought.
Szabo has found a way to terrorize the Draker family, even after death. His outstanding debt with a Corsican crime family mean the Drakers must now find and deliver a shipment of plutonium, which will likely be used by terrorists to create a nuclear bomb, to get Robert back. As Ruby struggles with the decision to save her brother or North America, she must also evade the CIA, who are trying to stop the Drakers from delivering the plutonium.
Purchase Links for Shadows in the Aftermath by Marianne Scott
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You can find my review of Shadows in the Aftermath here.
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Reinhardt by Marianne Scott
Published by Crowe Creations on October 2022
Genres: Adult Fiction 18+, Mystery, Thriller
Format: eBook, Paperback
Pages: 224
He's a Cold War spy hiding from one of his own. His real identity is tied to a treacherous past associated with American intelligence operations closed down after the end of the Cold War, and his enemy is relentless. All he has to do is change his name. Right? Wrong. Very wrong. Felix has eyes and ears everywhere.
Purchase Links for Reinhardt (a thriller) by Marianne Scott
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Here is my review of Reinhardt.
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Underneath the Fireflies by Marianne Scott
Published by Crowe Creations on January 2023
Genres: Adult Fiction 18+, Mystery, Thriller
Format: Audiobook, eBook, Paperback
Pages: 496
No matter where Grace Walker goes, her extra sensory power goes with her. She’s an empath and sees things—terrible things. After a tragic accident at the place where she works, she decides to take a mental-health break on a remote West Coast island. But she no sooner gets to Galliano Island when a vision of the murder of an Indigenous woman draws her into a disturbing and threatening dilemma.
How does she tell the authorities she witnessed a murder—in a vision? As Grace, her parents, and her want-to-be boyfriend investigate, trying to find evidence, the killer becomes aware that Grace is about to expose him. Now Grace has become the victim, but her gift of sight compels her to solve the crime and bring the killer to justice.
Purchase Links for Underneath the Fireflies by Marianne Scott
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And last but not least, my review of Underneath the Fireflies.
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About Marianne Scott
Marianne Scott is the Canadian author of four mystery thrillers and is currently finishing an edit on her fourth novel, a murder mystery. She has a BA and a Diploma in Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, CA. She studied creative writing through Conestoga College and Humber College. She enjoys writing workshops such as those offered by Brian Henry, publisher of the blog, Quick Brown Fox, and One Lit Place, a writers’ hub by creator/editor Jenna Kalinsky.
She has an author’s website and blog is the president of The Cambridge Writers’ Collective and is a member of the Guelph Genre Writers. In September of 2018, she completed a fourth-year course in Writing Fiction at the University of Guelph under the expert teaching of Lawrence Hill. Her novels, Finding Ruby Draker and Shadows in the Aftermath are self-published. She is actively seeking representation to break into the traditional publishing world with her third and fourth novels.
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Guest Post by Marianne Scott on Creating Relatable Characters
In my opinion, a story without characters is an essay, a piece of writing that supports a thesis. Essays are great, but aimed primarily for an academic audience. It’s basically just about the facts. All you need is supporting evidence from other writers along with your personal narrative on a particular subject and voila! You’ll score an A on your story.
But a story, especially a fiction story, doesn’t work like that. It is nothing without characters. The people in your story are responsible for emotions and actions that move a story in a planned direction. Together with supporting characters, they keep the action moving. They propel the plot forward by fascinating the reader. And, it’s the emotional response from your reader that keeps a reader turning the page.
When your characters engage your readers, you get fans that return to read more of your work. You may even find your characters become so memorable that they become household names. Think of characters like Harry Potter, Bella and Edward in the Twilight series, or Jack Reicher in Lee Child’s novels. Well rounded characters become real because they are so identifiable. It’s the reason film makers adapt a novel to the big screen because we love what they do and say.
Through description, I try to make my characters visually real. But that’s not enough. I try to get inside their heads, so I can think like them, feel their values, and anticipate what they’ll do next. When you know your characters that well, it not only allows a writer to determine how they will react to a particular situation, but sometimes it will seem like they are actually talking to you, telling you what comes next in your story.
I know that sounds weird, but it’s no different than being able to intuit what your child will do in a certain circumstance. Exceptional character development will give your readers that same opportunity. Then, there’s the twist. The writer can surprise a reader by making them act in a completely different way. That’s how a writer adds intrigue and suspense.
I spend time on making a profile for each of my characters. It’s a written document with their complete history. I may not use everything in that profile but by understanding character motivations, fears, ambitions, and weakness (especially their weaknesses) your characters come to life.
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Easy Amazon Links for Marianne Scott Books
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Books Title: Finding Ruby Draker, Shadows in the Aftermath, Reinhardt, and Underneath the Fireflies by Marianne Scott
Category: Adult Fiction (18+)
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Publisher: Crowe Creations
Release dates: Re-release 2023
Tour dates: Nov 20 to Dec 8, 2023
Content Rating: PG-13. Occasional colloquial language is used in dialog. Nothing that would offend the most discerning reader/s.
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These sounds like great books!
I am excited to read these books.
Thank you for sharing your guest post and the books’ details, I appreciate you sharing your tips on how to write relatable characters and I am looking forward to meeting all of yours when I read these stories
These all look like great books, but especially Reindhart.