In a fortnight’s time I have the good fortune of heading off to Hawaii for a couple of weeks. I’m looking forward to visiting places where traditional Hawaiian music is performed. I love listening to the ukuleles and steel guitars. Aside from the music, I plan to go on various excursions, visiting the many tourist [...]

Posted on November 2nd, 2008 by Pat Turner
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Every October the popular Sydney seaside suburb of Many hosts a three day jazz festival over the Labor Day long weekend. As always, this year’s program featured top line local and international performers who dazzled the audience with their remarkable renditions of jazz favorites.
The relaxed atmosphere gives the festival a real holiday feel. There is something [...]

Posted on October 5th, 2008 by Pat Turner
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I’ve just begun writing a new Rusty Linden mystery novel. It’s shaping up to be quite different to the previous one and may even be my most ambitious work so far. It is more of a psychological thriller than an action thriller. Rusty, Sydney’s top crime reporter, is still working at The Tribune newspaper and is about [...]

Posted on August 9th, 2008 by Pat Turner
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This week my book The Fragrant Trail : a Rusty Linden mystery is featured as a “Book of the Week” on the popular website Reader Views <http://www.readerviews.com>. A review of the work is also posted on the site which states: “The author Patricia Turner does an excellent job of weaving tension and suspense into her [...]

Posted on July 14th, 2008 by Pat Turner
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Exclusive Cocktails : from the recipes of Usher’s Hotel. Sydney, 1933.

Many readers and writers love collecting books, both old and new. It’s something I enjoy doing in my spare time. I search the Internet, and browse in bookshops. More often than not I stumble across something interesting. Ephemeral items from the past can have some [...]

Posted on April 5th, 2008 by Pat Turner
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Bohemian Heart, the story I contributed to the free ebook anthology Stomping Ground, is set in both current day Sydney and the Sydney of the 1930s. Rowe Street, which began life in the mid 1800s, features in the storyline because of its colorful history. Little more than a narrow lane hidden behind grand edifices, it became [...]

Posted on February 2nd, 2008 by Pat Turner
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Get your FREE copy of Stomping Ground, an anthology of short stories, poems, and essays by ten authors from DLSIJ Press. Each author has woven her own landscape of a favorite place, or a place that inspires, into a tale—from an eerie pasture in Wisconsin to the heart of Sydney, Australia, to the San Antonio River Walk. Come, [...]

Posted on November 30th, 2007 by Pat Turner
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My new novel The Fragrant Trail : a Rusty Linden Mystery has just recently been released. Unlike my two previous novels, and my short story which are all set in 1940s Hollywood, this is a contemporary murder mystery which weaves its way through the suburbs of my home town, Sydney.
Most of the action takes place [...]

Posted on June 23rd, 2007 by Pat Turner
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