Mystery Novel "A Body To Bones"

  A Body To Bones reviewers say: bodytobones.gif "Donan Berg writes a nice, clear, consistently readable prose, and he manages to create a winning character in Sarah Hamilton. This is Berg's strength...I kept reading in order to find out what would happen to her."  Writer's Digest judge, Feb. 2010.

 

"I found myself quickly drawn into this book. ... Author Donan Berg puts within this book an interesting mix of mystery, suspense, hidden secrets, sin, deception and intrigue to weave a book that is well worth the price and in fact is a book which I so readily recommend, that I would strongly suggest purchasing it for gifting. This is one book that will grace my shelves for a long time to come." S.P. Sept. 2010.

 

 

Excellent. ...well written and filled with intrigue, suspense and drama."  L.C. Posted BarnesandNoble.com  Sept. 2009

 

 

"Berg's debut novel offers a fun adventure into the world of small town secrets...."  Feathered Quill Book Reviews, www.featheredquill.com Sept. 2009

 

 

"A winning plot...." Kirkus Discoveries manuscript review.

 

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Southwest Georgia Regional Library System with Headquarters Library in Decatur County, Georgia, Gilbert H. Gragg Library joins Cleveland, Ohio, Public Library and Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Mead Public Library as libraries to shelve A Body To Bones in 2012. Libraries connected with Bainbridge are located in Colquitt and Donalsonville, Georgia. Welcome to all. Five libraries (Florida (2), Arkansas, Montana, Idaho) shelved A Body To Bones in the month of December, 2011.

Author Donan Berg's latest full length Third Skeleton Series Mystery novel entitled Baby Bones now available here in E-book and MP3 audiobook formats. Trade paperback edition scheduled for early 2012 release marred by printer delays. Click image of book's cover below to order either E-book or MP3 at $6.95. E-book available for all mobile reader formats plus PC and Mac computers. Save 25%, order both Baby Bones E-book and MP3 at one time.

Author Berg's May, 2011, Abbey Burning Love, a thriller with strong romantic elements, now available with one click on the book cover below. Price is $6.95. Released and available through multiple E-book retailers including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple Bookstore, Sony eReader, Google, eDiesel which includes Kindle, Nook, Kobo, iTunes. Website www.amazon.com includes previews of all four Donan Berg murder/mysteries. Great Father's Day gift and summer beach read.

Author Donan Berg featured as person you should know in November 8, 2010 page one story in Iowa City, Iowa, Press-Citizen. He also finished twice in the winner's circle of The Fifth Annual Dixie Kane Memorial Contest for unpublished romance novels, sponsored by the Southern Louisiana Chapter of the Romance Writers of America. His novel, "Rosemary's Awakening" received an honorable mention in the inspirational romance category and novel "Alexa" earned an honorable mention in the novel with romantic elements category. 

Bubbling Conflict and Other Stories, a new short story fiction compilation by Author Donan Berg, first exclusively available in trade paperback and E-book formats at www.i-proclaimbookstore.com , is now orderable in paperback format from DOTDON Books at www.dotdonbooks.com .

Mystery novels A Body To Bones and The Bones Dance Foxtrot E-book versions, including Kindle, remain at $6.95.  Harlowton Public Library, Harlowton, Montana, Brevard County Library, Cocoa, Florida, Wilder Public Library District, Wilder, Idaho, Barton Library, El Dorado, Arkansas, and Seminole County Public Library System, Casselberry, Florida, are latest 2011 libraries to shelve A Body To Bones. Rock Falls, Illinois, Public Library latest library to shelve A Body To Bones and The Bones Dance Foxtrot. Naperville, Illinois, Public Library adds A Body To Bones in its Nichols Adult Fiction section. Hennepin County (Minneapolis, MN)  Public Library circulates The Bones Dance Foxtrot along with A Body To Bones. Third Skeleton Series Mystery, Baby Bones, trade paperback edition delayed by printer mishaps during final pre-release proofread.

Five Stars. Barnes and Noble online bookstore, www.bn.com , offers detailed ratings for A Body To Bones as follows: Characters, Five Stars; Plot, Five Stars; Writing Style, Five Stars; Originality, Five Stars. For a rainy day, Five Stars.

Order e-book or hardcover edition of A Body To Bones from www.amazon.com and e-book and trade paperback of The Bones Dance Foxtrot at www.amazon.com . Read previews there.

Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble (online and in its bookstore) have the hardcover A Body To Bones edition. Your posted review at www.bn.com and www.amazon.com encouraged. We've learned (May 18, 2011) Barnes and Noble online says it has difficulty obtaining A Body To Bones which makes for all the more reason to order it here. A trade paperback copy ordered from this website offers opportunity for a personal author's autograph. We also offer paperback The Bones Dance Foxtrot and Bubbling Conflict and Other Stories if you send e-mail request to don@dotdonbooks.com .

A Body To Bones is at your library on Overdrive.

In addition to other libraries mentioned above A Body To Bones is shelved at U.S. Libraries in Davenport, IA; Traverse des Sioux, MN, Iowa City, IA, and Moline IL.

New Bookstore. Purchase A Body To Bones and The Bones Dance Foxtrot from Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City, Iowa.  Check River Lights in Dubuque, Iowa, and Powells, www.powells.com, an independent bookstore in Portland, OR.

Ask your Library.  Request your library purchase A Body To Bones or The Bones Dance Foxtrot for patrons, like yourself, then follow-up to be first on the patron-reader list. For example, visit the Iowa City, Iowa, Public Library at www.icpl.org , click on the classic catalog button, and enter <A Body To Bones> under title or <berg donan> under author.  Another excellent resource is www.worldcat.org . Use their search function. A Body To Bones has been catalog listed by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art Library (MMoA) and fine university libraries nationwide. 

Remember, with author Donan Berg's novels, the skeletons don't disappear because the calendar page turns. Winter nights and rainy days offer time to indulge. Carry your laptop to the back porch with a downloaded Abbey Burning Love to make you lose track of the time.

 

 

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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Donan Berg One Act Play in Pre-production
Author Donan Berg reports he has learned a community theater group has taken steps to rehearse his one-act play written this spring. Details to be available closer to the expected September 2012 public performance.
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Author Donan Berg New Blog Article
Author Donan Berg has posted a new blog at www.abodytobones.blogspot.com on the topic of writing reviews. Great information for reviewers and readers. Check it out.
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Saturday, May 5, 2012

Author Donan Berg On Cusp of 1,000 Twitter Followers
Author Donan Berg, debut mystery novel A Body To Bones, is within a handful of followers to surpass the 1,000 follower benchmark. The Twitter account is (at)abodytobones . Go there and enjoy the original content posted daily or the community with a common interest.
 
For greater involvement, order one of Donan Berg's novels from this website.
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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Donan Berg's A to Z Challenge Guest Post
Author Donan Berg's contribution to the A to Z Challenge, Q is for Quack, can be read at http://masqueradecrew.blogspot.com/2012/04/q-is-for-quack-atozchallenge.html . It has nothing at all to do with Aflac or ducks. Go and read for yourself.
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Test or Enjoy a Spelling Challenge
For fun or a serious challenge, test your ability to spot spelling errors in the April 17 posted exercise at www.abodytobones.blogspot.com . Author Donan Berg has devised it just for you.
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A winning plot... Kirkus Discoveries 
Winning character in Sarah Hamilton ... Writers' Digest, 2010
Author Donan Berg's Debut Fiction Novel

  Respected, church-going Sarah Hamilton anguished for a decade with an emotional skeleton. 
  When a real human skeleton is found in her midwest town's old factory, Sarah is caught not only with the prospect of her secret past becoming town gossip, but of having her husband and adopted daughter drawn into solving the ten-year mystery of A Body to Bones.

  One clue, surmised to be scratches by the skeleton before dying, implicates more than one resident in Sarah's town of 842, where her husband publishes the Pioneer Ledger.  Gossip, missing money, tension, and real peril exist when Sarah finds out the real killer still resides in town ready to kill again.
  And it could be her.

  A Body to Bones is a First Skeleton Series Mystery.
      Debut Novel of Author Donan Berg
     Available Now - 236 Pages
     Paperback ($12.95) for order through this website.
     Hardcover Casebound ($28.95) and E-book ($6.95)
     Prices do not include shipping/handling. No shipping charge for E-book.
     Also available on Amazon's Kindle ($6.95) and in your library that
     maintains a subscribtion to Overdrive.
     DOTDON Books is proud to announced A Body To Bones has attained status of featured publication on www.pubmatch.org/. We thank them.
     Feathered Quill Book Reviews has awarded Five Stars to Donan Berg's second novel, The Bones Dance FoxtrotRead review at www.featheredquill.com/  along with A Body To Bones review. Both in the mystery section.
     Here's sample of what's said about The Bones Dance Foxtrot:
      Five Star Review - The Bones Dance Foxtrot
The Bones Dance Foxtrot, a Second Skeleton Series Mystery, by author Donan Berg has received a five star spotlight review by Feathered Quill Book Reviews.  Read the complete review by Will Gabbert at www.featheredquill.com.  The reviewer, Feathered Quill Book Reviews, has received the 2009  Writers Choice Award  sponsored by Writer Watchdog.

A multi-starred review also appears at www.goodreads.com .

Quill said in summary: "If you enjoy a good murder mystery with twists, turns, false leads, a little gambling, betrayal, clues left in the unlikeliest of places and a hidden stash of bank loot, then pick up a copy of The Bones Dance Foxtrot.

The review continued:  "Author Donan Berg spins a twisted plot of murder, suspicion, multiple clues and budding romance in The Bones Dance Foxtrot. Berg takes the time to introduce the reader to Jake Brown, with all his insecurities and problems,and builds him into a character that the reader cares about. The other main characters involved in the mystery, Emily, Kate, Patricia, Clem, and even Chief R. P. Coltraine have distinct personalities. The locales, too, come to life as places like the diner, Sadie's, with plates clanking and the aroma of the day's specials drifting through the air.

"The police and detectives who are working to solve the case are given almost as much attention as the lead characters and it's fun to go back and forth between their investigative work, false leads, and guess work and then follow Jake and his friends.

"The reader may believe that all is solved well before the end of The Bones Dance Foxtrot, but rest assured, the author has a few more tricks up his sleeve."

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