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Not only did Sandra Murphy from Kings River Life News & Reviews review SINS OF THE MOTHER: A Caitlin Bergman Novel, but they’re giving a hardcover copy away from now until 11/28/20.

Check out their review for how to win your copy, not to mention other reviews for the latest in crime fiction.

https://www.krlnews.com/2020/11/sins-of-mother-by-august-norman.html

Sins of the Mother by August Norman

ABOUT SINS OF THE MOTHER:

August Norman returns with the second thrilling Caitlin Bergman novel, perfect for fans of Julia Keller, Tess Gerritsen, and Michael Koryta.

Caitlin went in search of her mother…but what she found may set the world on fire.

Caitlin Bergman’s mother is dead. That’s what the award-winning journalist has told everyone for the past forty years. Easier to lie than explain how Maya abandoned her only daughter before dropping off the map forever.

But when a rural sheriff invites Caitlin to the woods of coastal Oregon to identify her mother’s remains, Caitlin drops everything to face the woman she’s spent a lifetime hating. Unfortunately, the body–abandoned on the land of a reclusive cult, the Daughters of God–was left faceless. Instead, Caitlin finds the diary of a woman obsessed with the end of the world, one that hints the cult’s spiritual leader knows the identity of Caitlin’s real father. She’s not the only one looking for clues in her mother’s writing. Johnny Larsen, a violent white supremacist whose family runs the county, thinks the Daughters of God kidnapped his teen-aged daughter–and will do anything to get her back.

At the top of a hill, an army of women wait for the end of days. In the town below, the Larsens plot to purify their county. Caught in the middle, Caitlin must decide which is more important–learning the truth about her past, or saving Mama Maya’s chosen daughters from the end of the world.

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]]> Mystery Suspense Reviews Sins of the Mother https://augustnorman.com/mystery-suspense-reviews-sins-of-the-mother/ Sun, 26 Jul 2020 19:36:19 +0000 https://augustnorman.com/?p=1991 MysterySuspenseReviews.com featured SINS OF THE MOTHER, the second Caitlin Bergman novel by August Norman on July 9, 2020, calling it a “thrilling mystery that will have readers on the edge of their seats — until the very end.” Beyond the kind words by reviewer MerryCI, the spotlight article includes a seven question interview about the […]

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MysterySuspenseReviews.com featured SINS OF THE MOTHER, the second Caitlin Bergman novel by August Norman on July 9, 2020, calling it a “thrilling mystery that will have readers on the edge of their seats — until the very end.”

Beyond the kind words by reviewer MerryCI, the spotlight article includes a seven question interview about the writing of the book, the creation of investigative journalist and lover of french fries, Caitlin Bergman, and what it takes to create a religious cult from scratch.

CHECK OUT THE REVIEW AND INTERVIEW HERE

Sins of the Mother by August Norman

ABOUT SINS OF THE MOTHER:

August Norman returns with the second thrilling Caitlin Bergman novel, perfect for fans of Julia Keller, Tess Gerritsen, and Michael Koryta.

Caitlin went in search of her mother…but what she found may set the world on fire.

Caitlin Bergman’s mother is dead. That’s what the award-winning journalist has told everyone for the past forty years. Easier to lie than explain how Maya abandoned her only daughter before dropping off the map forever.

But when a rural sheriff invites Caitlin to the woods of coastal Oregon to identify her mother’s remains, Caitlin drops everything to face the woman she’s spent a lifetime hating. Unfortunately, the body–abandoned on the land of a reclusive cult, the Daughters of God–was left faceless. Instead, Caitlin finds the diary of a woman obsessed with the end of the world, one that hints the cult’s spiritual leader knows the identity of Caitlin’s real father. She’s not the only one looking for clues in her mother’s writing. Johnny Larsen, a violent white supremacist whose family runs the county, thinks the Daughters of God kidnapped his teen-aged daughter–and will do anything to get her back.

At the top of a hill, an army of women wait for the end of days. In the town below, the Larsens plot to purify their county. Caught in the middle, Caitlin must decide which is more important–learning the truth about her past, or saving Mama Maya’s chosen daughters from the end of the world.

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]]> Kirkus Reviews looks at Sins of the Mother by August Norman https://augustnorman.com/kirkus-reviews-looks-at-sins-of-the-mother-by-august-norman/ Wed, 01 Jul 2020 03:22:00 +0000 https://augustnorman.com/?p=1795 Kirkus Reviews posted their review of SINS OF THE MOTHER, a Caitlin Bergman novel by August Norman, available September 8, 2020 from Crooked Lane Books. A Southern Californian journalist searches rural Oregon for her lost mother. Caitlin Bergman knows that working for the LA Voice won’t earn her any Pulitzers. But it gives her the […]

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Kirkus Reviews says Action-loving readers are the real winners in this offbeat thriller - Sins of the Mother by August Norman

Kirkus Reviews posted their review of SINS OF THE MOTHER, a Caitlin Bergman novel by August Norman, available September 8, 2020 from Crooked Lane Books.

A Southern Californian journalist searches rural Oregon for her lost mother. Caitlin Bergman knows that working for the LA Voice won’t earn her any Pulitzers. But it gives her the press credentials to travel to Coos County, Oregon, on the pretext of writing a feature on the State of Jefferson, the brainchild of a movement from the 1940s whose present-day adherents, known as the Proud Sons, hope to create a 51st state on the California-Oregon border. Caitlin’s real purpose, though, is to investigate the death of a member of the Daughters of God, an apocalyptic cult that lives on an Oregon hillside under the watchful eye of Desmond Pratten, the only male allowed in the single-sex commune. Caitlin has reason to believe that the deceased is Maya Aronson, the mother who surrendered Caitlin shortly after her birth to be adopted by LA cop Matthew Bergman. Caitlin both hopes and fears that she’ll learn more about Maya and discover what led the former porn star to retreat to an Oregon hillside to await the end of the world. But she needs to be careful. The Daughters aren’t exactly popular with the locals, especially not with lumber tycoon Anders Larsen or his son, Johnny. Johnny’s teenage daughter, Promise, ran off and joined the cult, and he aims to get her back at any price. Sparks fly when his mission collides with Caitlin’s. As the Sons and Daughters clash, it’s anyone’s guess which off-the-grid worldview will prevail. Action-loving readers are the real winners in this offbeat thriller.

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Sins of the Mother by August Norman

ABOUT SINS OF THE MOTHER:

August Norman returns with the second thrilling Caitlin Bergman novel, perfect for fans of Julia Keller, Tess Gerritsen, and Michael Koryta.

Caitlin went in search of her mother…but what she found may set the world on fire.

Caitlin Bergman’s mother is dead. That’s what the award-winning journalist has told everyone for the past forty years. Easier to lie than explain how Maya abandoned her only daughter before dropping off the map forever.

But when a rural sheriff invites Caitlin to the woods of coastal Oregon to identify her mother’s remains, Caitlin drops everything to face the woman she’s spent a lifetime hating. Unfortunately, the body–abandoned on the land of a reclusive cult, the Daughters of God–was left faceless. Instead, Caitlin finds the diary of a woman obsessed with the end of the world, one that hints the cult’s spiritual leader knows the identity of Caitlin’s real father. She’s not the only one looking for clues in her mother’s writing. Johnny Larsen, a violent white supremacist whose family runs the county, thinks the Daughters of God kidnapped his teen-aged daughter–and will do anything to get her back.

At the top of a hill, an army of women wait for the end of days. In the town below, the Larsens plot to purify their county. Caught in the middle, Caitlin must decide which is more important–learning the truth about her past, or saving Mama Maya’s chosen daughters from the end of the world.

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]]> KRL News Reviews Come and Get Me by August Norman https://augustnorman.com/krl-news-reviews-come-and-get-me-by-august-norman/ Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:15:43 +0000 https://augustnorman.com/?p=1329 “Bursts onto the page in a no-holds-barred, attention-grabbing, can’t-put-it-down style.” Sandra Murphy KRL News & Reviews Critic Sandra Murphy from KRL News posted a review of Come and Get Me: A Caitlin Bergman Novel, ending with, “Expect to find this on my Best of 2019 list.” Click here to read the entire review. ABOUT COME […]

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Sandra Murphy from KRL News reviews Come and Get Me: A Caitlin Bergman Novel by August Norman
"Bursts onto the page in a no-holds-barred, attention-grabbing, can't-put-it-down style."
Sandra Murphy KRL News & Reviews

Critic Sandra Murphy from KRL News posted a review of Come and Get Me: A Caitlin Bergman Novel, ending with, “Expect to find this on my Best of 2019 list.”

Click here to read the entire review.

ABOUT COME AND GET ME:

An intrepid journalist confronts a small town’s dark secrets in Come and Get Me, a breakneck thriller for fans of Tess Gerritsen and Julia Keller. 

At Indiana University, someone’s been studying the female student body:
 their dating customs, nocturnal activities―and how long they can survive in captivity. 

When award-winning journalist Caitlin Bergman is invited back to campus to receive an honorary degree, she finds an opportunity for a well-earned victory lap―and a chance to face the trauma that almost destroyed her as an undergrad. But her lap becomes an all-out race when a student begs her to probe an unsolved campus disappearance: Angela Chapman went out one Friday night and never came back. 

To find the missing woman, Caitlin must join forces with a local police detective and the department that botched her own case so long ago.
But while Caitlin follows the clues behind Angela’s disappearance, someone else is following her… 

Unearthing secrets hidden beneath an idyllic Midwestern college town, Caitlin must expose what really happened to Angela―before she herself becomes the newest addition to a twisted collection.

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]]> Mystery Scene Magazine reviews Come and Get Me by August Norman https://augustnorman.com/mystery-scene-magazine-reviews-come-and-get-me-by-august-norman/ Wed, 12 Jun 2019 16:50:43 +0000 https://augustnorman.com/?p=1275 “A smart, complex, and capable woman who kicks ass and takes names” Hank Wagner Mystery Scene Magazine Critic Hank Wagner from Mystery Scene Magazine posted his review of Come and Get Me. Click here to read the entire review. ABOUT COME AND GET ME: An intrepid journalist confronts a small town’s dark secrets in Come and […]

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Hank Wagner from Mystery Scene Magazine reviews thriller author August Norman's debut Come and Get Me: A Caitlin Bergman Novel
"A smart, complex, and capable woman who kicks ass and takes names"
Hank Wagner Mystery Scene Magazine

Critic Hank Wagner from Mystery Scene Magazine posted his review of Come and Get Me.

Click here to read the entire review.

ABOUT COME AND GET ME:

An intrepid journalist confronts a small town’s dark secrets in Come and Get Me, a breakneck thriller for fans of Tess Gerritsen and Julia Keller. 

At Indiana University, someone’s been studying the female student body:
 their dating customs, nocturnal activities―and how long they can survive in captivity. 

When award-winning journalist Caitlin Bergman is invited back to campus to receive an honorary degree, she finds an opportunity for a well-earned victory lap―and a chance to face the trauma that almost destroyed her as an undergrad. But her lap becomes an all-out race when a student begs her to probe an unsolved campus disappearance: Angela Chapman went out one Friday night and never came back. 

To find the missing woman, Caitlin must join forces with a local police detective and the department that botched her own case so long ago.
But while Caitlin follows the clues behind Angela’s disappearance, someone else is following her… 

Unearthing secrets hidden beneath an idyllic Midwestern college town, Caitlin must expose what really happened to Angela―before she herself becomes the newest addition to a twisted collection.

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]]> Bestselling author Steena Holmes recommends debut thriller Come and Get Me https://augustnorman.com/bestselling-author-steena-holmes-recommends-debut-thriller-come-and-get-me/ Sun, 18 Nov 2018 16:38:24 +0000 https://augustnorman.com/?p=761 After reading an Advanced Reader Copy of COME AND GET ME, Steena Holmes, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of THE FORGOTTEN ONES and twenty other novels, was kind enough to say the following in a review on GoodReads: You know when you’ve been in a funk and just can’t get attached to […]

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After reading an Advanced Reader Copy of COME AND GET ME, Steena Holmes, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of THE FORGOTTEN ONES and twenty other novels, was kind enough to say the following in a review on GoodReads:

You know when you’ve been in a funk and just can’t get attached to anything you read?

Yeah, that won’t happen when you read Come and Get Me by August Norman.

I started reading one night when I couldn’t sleep. That was a mistake. I finally stopped ready by 5am … lol. Yes, I was a tad tired the next day, but it was totally worth it.

Come and Get Me is tight, enticing, seductive with its taunts and twists – every time I thought I knew what was happening, that I’d peeled back the layers and understood where the author was taking me on this journey, I found out I was wrong. This is a psychological suspense novel that doesn’t disappoint. I was immediately sucked into the backstory of journalist Caitlin Bergman – perhaps because I understood the demons she fought – and felt enticed to get to know her more. She wasn’t person, screwed up a lot, but was more real than a lot of characters I’ve been reading lately.

I really enjoyed August Norman’s writing style. It pulled me in without weighing me down. His writing was tight, descriptive and I found myself going back over sentences and phrases because of the depth in them. When I say this story is seductive with its taunts and twists…I mean it. The author pulls you in, wraps you tight in the embrace of his words and then teases and taunts you while taking you on a twisted journey.

Do I recommend this book? Absolutely. Pre-order it now. Honestly. Don’t wait. 

Check out Steena’s latest at http://www.steenaholmes.com, or find her on Amazon.

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