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Liz Fielding

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Obres de Liz Fielding

The Bride's Baby (2007) 349 exemplars
Wild Justice (1996) 115 exemplars
The Valentine Bride (2006) 29 exemplars
The Sheikh's Unsuitable Bride (2006) 29 exemplars
Wedded In A Whirlwind (2008) 25 exemplars
The Billionaire Takes a Bride (2003) 25 exemplars
Tempted by Trouble (2011) 23 exemplars
The Sheikh's Guarded Heart (2006) 23 exemplars
Flirting with Italian (2011) 21 exemplars
Reunited: Marriage in a Million (2007) 21 exemplars
Anything But Vanilla... (2013) 20 exemplars
The Bridesmaid's Reward (2002) 20 exemplars
The Marriage Miracle (2005) 20 exemplars
Her Desert Dream (2009) 19 exemplars
Mistletoe and the Lost Stiletto (2010) 19 exemplars
Dangerous Flirtation (1994) 19 exemplars
A Nanny for Keeps (2005) 18 exemplars
Eloping With Emmy (1998) 18 exemplars
His Desert Rose (2000) 16 exemplars
The Ordinary Princess (2003) 16 exemplars
If the Shoe Fits (2017) 16 exemplars
City Girl in Training (2002) 16 exemplars
Old Desires (1994) 15 exemplars
A Family of His Own (2004) 15 exemplars
For His Eyes Only (2014) 15 exemplars
A Stranger's Kiss (1994) 15 exemplars
The Tycoon's Takeover (2002) 15 exemplars
The Best Man and the Bridesmaid (2000) 13 exemplars
His Little Girl (1998) 13 exemplars
The Corporate Bridegroom (2002) 13 exemplars
His Runaway Bride (2001) 12 exemplars
Christmas Reunion in Paris (2020) 12 exemplars
A Wedding at Leopard Tree Lodge (2010) 12 exemplars
The Marriage Merger (2002) 11 exemplars
The Last Woman He'd Ever Date (2012) 11 exemplars
The Bachelor's Baby (2001) 11 exemplars
Wild Lady (1997) 11 exemplars
And Mother Makes Three (1998) 10 exemplars
Baby on Loan (2001) 10 exemplars
HIS PERSONAL AGENDA (2001) 10 exemplars
Wild Fire (1997) 9 exemplars
A Point of Pride (1993) 8 exemplars
All She Wants for Christmas (1996) 8 exemplars
Her Ideal Husband (2000) 7 exemplars
An Image of You (1992) 7 exemplars
Gentlemen Prefer ... Brunettes (1998) 6 exemplars
Bittersweet Deception (1995) 5 exemplars
Her Pregnancy Bombshell (2017) 5 exemplars
Conflict of Hearts (1996) 5 exemplars
A Suitable Groom (1998) 5 exemplars
In the Boss's Bed (2004) 4 exemplars
A Summer's Lease (2016) 4 exemplars
Bride for a Billionaire (By Request 3-in-1) (2008) — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
The Three-year Itch (1997) 3 exemplars
Dating Her Boss (1999) 3 exemplars
Secrets Revealed (2010) 3 exemplars
City Girls (Wanting His Child/ Three-Year Itch/ Working Girl) (2002) — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
The Temp and the Tycoon (2004) 3 exemplars
Hidden Star | The Fiancé Fix | The Bridesmaid's Reward (2009) — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
The Baby Plan (1999) 3 exemplars
Prisoner of the Heart (1995) 3 exemplars
Seduced by a Sultan (By Request 3-in-1) (2004) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
A Perfect Proposal (2018) 2 exemplars
British Bachelors: Tempting and New (2017) — Autor — 2 exemplars
A Deal at the Altar (2014) 1 exemplars
Mother's Day Pack (3 in 1) (2001) 1 exemplars
Compromiso navideño (2018) 1 exemplars
Four Classic Contemporary Romances Box Set (4-in-1) (2014) — Autor — 1 exemplars
Fairytale Christmas (3-in-1) (2017) — Autor — 1 exemplars
Bombshell for the boss (2012) 1 exemplars
El bebé de la novia (2008) 1 exemplars
Cilada da paixão 1 exemplars

Obres associades

Loves Me, Loves Me Not (2009) — Col·laborador — 36 exemplars
The Five-Year Baby Secret [Manga] (2014) — Original Text — 2 exemplars
Mistletoe and the Lost Stiletto (2016) — Original Text — 2 exemplars
The Bachelor's Baby (2020) — Original Text — 1 exemplars
The Valentine Bride (2019) — Original Text — 1 exemplars
The Temp and the Tycoon (Manga) (2018) — Original Text — 1 exemplars
The Best Man and the Bridesmaid [Manga] (2019) — Original Text — 1 exemplars
SOS: Convenient Husband Required [Manga] (2016) — Original Text — 1 exemplars
A Wife on Paper [Manga] (2017) — Original Text — 1 exemplars
The Marriage Miracle (2014) — Original Text — 1 exemplars
A Suitable Groom (2015) — Original Text — 1 exemplars
The Bridesmaid's Reward (2015) — Original Text — 1 exemplars
Her Wish-List Bridegroom [Manga] (2014) — Original Text — 1 exemplars
Flirting with Italian (2016) — Original Text — 1 exemplars
The Sheikh's Unsuitable Bride (2014) — Original Text — 1 exemplars
A Surprise Christmas Proposal [Manga] (2015) — Original Text — 1 exemplars
His Little Girl (2016) — Original Text — 1 exemplars
Zarif's Convenient Queen [and] Secret Wedding (2017) — Autor, algunes edicions1 exemplars
The Sheikh's Guarded Heart (2021) — Original Text — 1 exemplars

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Altres noms
Fielding, Liz
Gènere
female
Nacionalitat
UK
Lloc de naixement
Berkshire, England, UK
Llocs de residència
Berkshire, England, UK
Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, UK
Lusaka, Zambia
Botswana
Kenya
Bahrain (mostra-les totes 7)
Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
Biografia breu
Liz Fielding was born on 1th June in a small country town in Berkshire, England, UK. She has been reading since she was knee-high to a gnat. Her mother taught her, the way her mother taught her all the good things in life. Her mother read to her when she was little and then her mother bought her books of her own. Little Women, What Katy Did and Anne of Green Gables. She read them all until the covers fell off.

Liz was a secretary and she met John, an engineer, while they were both working in Lusaka, Zambia. They married and had travelled the world together before settling down to raise their family. When Ami, their first kid was born, her husband given her pearl earrings, made from pearls fished from the Bahrain pearl beds by her own husband. Later, they had other kid, Wil. She started writing when her children were small and her husband was working abroad.

In 1982 was published her first romance, An Image of You,, was set in Kenya, in a place she knew well, and was plucked from the slush pile because the feisty feminist heroine made her editor laugh. Emotion touched with humor has been the hallmark of her books ever since.

Liz lives in the house built by her husband in Wales, near Caermyrddyn, Merlin's Fort. The land is steeped in legend, the hilltops crowned with the remains of ancient castles. She lives in a tiny village that she loves and rarely leaves, keeping in touch with readers and friends through the magic of the Internet. In 2005, when she was nominated for a RITA Award from the Romance Writers of America, she made an exception and flew to Washington for the Romance Writers of America conference, where she had a great time playing tourist as well as meeting up with lots of old friends.

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Eloping with Emmy by Liz Fielding a Reviews of Early Reviewers Books (maig 2012)

Ressenyes

1965? How did I miss that? Where are other reviewers getting that? Was it the copyright date? That would definitely explain a lot, like why the hero was so hateful to the heroine. It still happens in books today, but not as often, and it's a huge turn-off for me. I don't want the characters to fall in love on page 3, but when one or both characters are just plain mean to each other, it really bothers me.
 
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amandabeaty | Hi ha 7 ressenyes més | Jan 4, 2024 |
Contemporary romance writer Liz Fielding is one of the few writers I will consistently read category romances from. Once upon a time I read practically anything I could get my hands on done by Harlequin, met my first Regency Romance and decided that contemporaries just weren't romantic enough anymore. Liz Fielding changed my mind and I thank her for it.

This book has been on my interest list for a few months, though I forget how I found out about it. Surfing Amazon I suspect, but at any rate it looked interesting. Then of course it had a look a like, trading places, hiding in plain sight etc etc and it moved up my list of romances to buy. Though almost more than the romance herein, I enjoyed the counterplay between Annie and George. Even before mutual attraction enters the bargain the two of them spark off each other in a wholly wonderful way.

George doesn't come off as a guy you want to cuddle with--his first interaction with Annie is fraught with tension, anger and family issues that she stumbled into unwittingly. They both come off on entirely the wrong foot in fact--she seems like a complete dunce, with no common sense or brains to give her life and he is a brute. She doesn't back down. And this is important to note because part of the reason she was escaping her 'Lady Rose' life was because she couldn't find the voice to tell her Grandfather that she wanted her own life.

Their time together is considered a whirlwind, at best, but Annie's innate sense of righting wrongs and helping people has her unconsciously trying to 'fix' George's problems with his daughter, his father, his life. George, beyond lust, is suspicious of Annie, but wants to protect her. Learn about her. Save her from whatever she was running from.

I liked the fact that Fielding had a definite 'tone' for Annie that was distinctly different from the other characters. Even as she relaxed and became a more 'ordinary' girl, her phraseology and gestures made it abundantly clear that she was born royalty. Born learning to be diplomatic, consoling, confident. After George figures things out she even uses it to her advantage, purposely teasing him.

The secondary characters--Hetty (George's mom), Xandra (George's daughter) and George (George's dad) were given less fleshing/embellishing, but weren't just ornaments to the story. Xandra was the teenager from hell, and the relationship between her and George was tidied up a little too nicely, but its Christmas. You get to have tidy bows in Christmas stories.

The companion novel, that talks about Annie's double (Lydia)'s adventures in the desert will certainly be interesting to read. Lydia, from the brief time we saw her, was much more down to earth, so it will be interesting to see how exactly she responds to 'royal' life. Plus we'll get to see what happened when she disappeared.
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lexilewords | Hi ha 3 ressenyes més | Dec 28, 2023 |
Murder Under the Mistletoe is the second book in the Maybridge Murder Mystery series and while I enjoyed it quite a bit, I did think the first book in the series was quite a bit stronger and much more interesting. Abby is a reliable main character and while I understand that she and her family are going through a difficult time, I felt like the author was trying to create drama between her and her new romantic interest, something that didn't need to happen. The mystery was strong enough to stand on its own and so was the family dynamic the author described in this book.

I liked Abby as a main character and enjoyed the relationships she had with those in her community. Due to the circumstances of her ex-husband's death, she has had to deal with some nasty rumours and fallout, but the community has come together to show their support to her and her family. When she discovers that others are being threatened, she realizes there is a whole layer working beneath the town of which she was unaware and soon that threat affects her personally. I enjoyed learning about the other members of the community through her interactions with them as she investigated the murders and really liked the fact she didn't put herself or anyone else in danger by doing so. She just took advantage of the opportunities when they arose. There are quite a few characters in this book and there seemed to be this assumption that the reader was familiar with the first book just by the way the characters interacted, as if you were already on intimate terms with them.

The mystery itself was quite good, but then I like a story about blackmail as I always wonder how far someone will go to protect their secrets, and that is exactly what this book was about. Yes, I was able to figure out the mystery quite early, but enjoyed it for its own sake. I liked how the author intertwined Abby's family issues within the mystery as her kids were dealing with their first Christmas without their dad. I was not a fan of Abby's relationship as I felt like that was unnecessary drama, stirred up for the sake of just adding more drama and the whole thing felt forced. Not my favourite part of the book.

Verdict
Murder Under the Mistletoe is a good story about blackmail and how far you can push someone before they finally give in under the pressure. It's interesting as I was just watching a new Poirot film about this very same thing, and the result always seems to be the same, desperation. The overall flow of the book was somewhat off, but the mix of dialogue and description was good, and I definitely enjoyed all the Christmas scenes. I do feel that readers would benefit from reading the first book before reading this one however, so go, take a look, and enjoy Murder Under the Roses.
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StephanieBN | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Nov 26, 2023 |
Cotswolds, small-town, small-business, England, local-law-enforcement, unputdownable, amateur-sleuth, cozy-mystery, surprises, suspense, suspicion, friends, friendship, family, family-dynamics, relationships, relatives, murder-investigation, murder, Lothario, extortion, Christmas-season, secrets, wrong-victim, lies*****

The first death was certainly an accident on both counts. The real rotter was a pompous a$$ who was also a serial blackmailer and a serial widower. Abby Finch gets involved even before the real victim turns up his toes, but her garden business and horticultural knowledge nearly put her in the frame in spite of having three school age children. Great cozy mystery with intelligent sleuthing, well drawn characters, and some really wow surprises. This is only second in series but the past is clearly defined.
I requested and received an EARC from Joffe Books via NetGalley. Thank you!
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jetangen4571 | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Oct 30, 2023 |

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Obres
138
També de
19
Membres
1,599
Popularitat
#16,125
Valoració
½ 3.5
Ressenyes
77
ISBN
569
Llengües
10
Preferit
2

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