Caroline Wrenn Cleveland

Jul 19, 2024 | bookreporter.com | Caroline Wrenn Cleveland

Caroline Cleveland's debut mystery novel, WHEN CICADAS CRY, fooled me once. Then again and again. And maybe a few more times. Now that’s what I call a really good mystery. Cleveland wrote in an Afterword that she wanted to supply her readers with plenty of curves and twists. Mission accomplished. I was blindsided by almost all of them. One of the two major plots involves the brutal murder of a beautiful young white woman.

Jun 12, 2024 | criminalelement.com | Victoria Stone |Erika Robuck |Caroline Wrenn Cleveland |Peter Nichols

Conspiracies play a key role in Follow Her Down, Victoria Helen Stone's riveting suspense novel. Victoria visits the site to share some of her favorite conspiracy thrillers, ranging from the local level to the upper echelons of government, even into outer-space. The biggest problem with conspiracy theories? They’re so much fun.

Jun 5, 2024 | criminalelement.com | Erika Robuck |Caroline Wrenn Cleveland |Janet Webb |John Valeri

“You could work for us” —A Former CIA OfficerI was flattered when a woman I admire proclaimed this. She had read my novels about women WWII spies including Americans Virginia Hall and Virginia d’Albert-Lake and was impressed by the way I was able to follow breadcrumbs through declassified archives and multilingual sources to piece together resistance and spy networks. A current CIA officer was less positive. When I asked him a question about a specific training facility, he looked at me sternly.

May 11, 2024 | writersdigest.com | Caroline Wrenn Cleveland

The magic of reading is letting your surroundings drop away and losing yourself in a different “reality” the writer has created. Although I love books that take me to far-away places, in the end, the books I find myself most drawn to are the books that take me home. A native South Carolinian, I grew up in the small town of Walterboro, South Carolina. It is small now—it was smaller then.

May 9, 2024 | zip06.com | Caroline Wrenn Cleveland

When Cicadas Cry by Caroline Cleveland In this Southern Gothic tale, Sam Jenkins, a black man, is found in a small rural church with the body of a murdered white woman. When possible connections arise to a 34-year-old case close by, things become much more complicated. The author clearly knows the South Carolina low country well and uses it effectively almost as another character. Ginger, Breakwater Books, Guilford