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• Spy Fall - 2014 Marsal Lyon Literary Agency, Solana Beach
• Engaging the Earl - 2014 CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Charleston
• Compromising Willa - 2013 CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Charleston
• Tempting Bella - 2013 CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Charleston
• Seducing Charlotte - 2013 CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Charleston
• Murder in Bloomsbury: An Atlas Catesby Mystery - 2018 Crooked Lane Books, New York
• Murder in Mayfair: An Atlas Catesby Mystery - 2017 Crooked Lane Books, New York

• D. M. Quincy - http://www.dmquincy.com/about/

  About
  Enjoying coffee-cream and a crepe in Paris
  Enjoying coffee-cream and a crepe in Paris
  D.M. Quincy grew up as a U.S. Foreign Service brat, which means she spent most of her childhood roaming the world, primarily in less developed countries. That’s probably why the protagonist in her Atlas Catesby mystery series travels to far-flung places as often as he can.

  While D.M. adored visiting fascinating destinations like Bolivia, Peru, Laos, Pakistan and India, returning home to the United States was always such a treat. The shopping mall! Neat, organized, fully stocked grocery stores! Junk food! Television in English! You get the picture.

  D.M. takes in the view in Hong Kong back in the 90s.
  After college, D.M. became a television journalist. She covered dozens of crimes, including violent unsolved murders that stayed with her for years afterwards. She’s pretty sure that had something to do with her decision to write her own stories in which a brilliant amateur detective always gets the bad guy (or girl), thus making sure that justice is always served.

  When she isn’t hunched over her laptop researching ways for her villains to kill people, D.M. reads, spends time with her family, devours foreign television mystery series on Netflix, and plots her next travel adventure.

• Diana Quincy - http://www.dianaquincy.com/meet-diana/

  Meet Diana
  Although I’ve always loved reading and writing, I’m not one of those people who has always known I want to be an author.

  I discovered my love of romantic fiction a few years ago, while picking up summer library books for my two boys. I noticed a historical romance by Shirlee Busbee on the end cap and picked it up to browse through while waiting in line to check out our books.

  That’s all it took to hook me.

  I spent that summer reading every historical romance I could get my hands on.

  A few months later, I was motivated to try writing my own story, which resulted in my first manuscript, Compromising Willa.

  Now I cannot imagine not writing. I guess you could say I’m a late bloomer.

  I’m a former television journalist who decided it was much more fun to make up stories where a happy ending is always guaranteed. Growing up as a Foreign Service brat, I’ve been lucky enough to visit many countries, including France, Bolivia, Peru, Panama, Morocco, Egypt, Laos, Thailand and India. I’m now happily settled in Virginia with my husband and two sons. When I’m not bent over my laptop or trying to keep up with laundry, I love to read, spend time with my family, or plan my next travel adventure.

  I am a proud member of the Romance Writers of America (RWA), Washington Romance Writers, Maryland Romance Writers and the New Jersey Romance Writers.

  I am fortunate to be represented by Kevan Lyon at the Marsal Lyon Literary Agency.

  Thanks for stopping by the blog. I’m glad you have!

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  D. M. Quincy is an award-winning journalist who―after covering many unsolved murders―decided to conceive her own stories in which a brilliant amateur detective always gets the bad guy (or girl). As a US Foreign Service brat, D. M. was bitten by the travel bug practically at birth, and like her protagonist Atlas Catesby, tries to visit far-flung places as often as she can. When she isn’t hunched over her laptop researching ways for her villains to kill people, D. M. devours foreign television mystery series on Netflix and plots her next travel adventure. She lives in Virginia with her family.

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Quoted in Sidelights: “dashing and enjoyably melodramatic.”
Quincy, D.M.: MURDER IN MAYFAIR
Kirkus Reviews.
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Quincy, D.M. MURDER IN MAYFAIR Crooked Lane (Adult Fiction) $26.99 7, 11 ISBN: 978-1-68331-
225-3
A gentleman traveler with a secret wound gallantly rescues a lady and uncovers the truth of a murder in
Regency London.This is the mystery debut of author Quincy, though she has written romances as Diana
Quincy (From London with Love, 2017, etc.). Stopping at a rustic inn, Atlas Catesby and his friend the Earl
of Charlton are appalled at the barbaric sight in the yard: local merchant Godfrey Warwick is offering to sell
his wife to the highest bidder. Her fine features and aristocratic bearing belie his slander, and Atlas cannot
help but pay handsomely to protect her from the jeering crowd. The rescued Lilliana Warwick flees
Catesby's protection to return home to her young sons, but her husband has the local magistrate threaten her
with jail if she disregards his paternal authority. Stymied, Catesby takes Lilliana to the Bloomsbury home of
his sister, amateur mathematician Thea Palmer. Suddenly deciding to reassert his claim on Lilliana,
Warwick threatens to sully her reputation and Catesby's if she doesn't return. Fortunately, Warwick is dead
by the next morning; unfortunately, Catesby is the prime suspect. To clear his name, he delves into
Warwick's sordid affairs and finds gratifying layers of blackmail and abuse. An attempt on Lilliana's life
renders the case both more complicated and more urgent but draws Catesby even closer to her and to the
truth. Dashing and enjoyably melodramatic.
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Quoted in Sidelights: “cleverly plotted,” “the class tensions and gender relations of Regency England.”
Murder in Mayfair: An Atlas Catesby
Mystery
Publishers Weekly.
264.20 (May 15, 2017): p40.
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Murder in Mayfair: An Atlas Catesby Mystery
D.M. Quincy. Crooked Lane, $26.99 (320p)
ISBN 978-1-68331-225-3
Set in 1814, this cleverly plotted series launch from historical romance author Quincy (Seducing Charlotte,
etc., as Diana Quincy) introduces Atlas Catesby, a baron's intelligent youngest son with bad memories and
time on his hands. On the way home to London from Bath, Catesby stops at a rustic country inn around the
time crude tradesman Godfrey Warwick is auctioning off his wife, the well-bred Lilliana, in the inn's yard.
His protective instincts aroused, Catesby "buys" the woman for 30 [pounds sterling], but both husband and
wife have dangerous secrets, and he soon finds himself responsible for Lilliana in ways he never expected.
Catesby's sleuthing skills impress as he seeks to solve a murder that occurs weeks after the sale, with
several suspects in the running. Quincy on occasion slips into cliched prose ("His blood turned cold"), but
she does a good job depicting the class tensions and gender relations of Regency England. Agent: Kevan
Lyon, Marsal Lyon Literary Agency. (July)
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Quoted in Sidlights: “will appeal not only to cozy readers, but also to lovers of Regency romances.”
Murder in Mayfair
Karen Muller
Booklist.
113.18 (May 15, 2017): p21.
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Murder in Mayfair. By D. M. Quincy. July 2017. 320p. Crooked Lane, $26.99 (9781683312253); e-book, $
11.99 (9781683312260).
In the terribly class-conscious Regency period, Atlas Catesby, the youngest son of a recently designated
baron, and his friend, the Earl of Charlton, are returning to London from Bath when they must stop in
suburban Slough to repair a thrown horseshoe. Hearing a commotion in the public square, they investigateand
Atlas ends up purchasing the wife of a local landowner, who had put her up for sale to the highest
bidder. They continue on to London, installing Mrs. Lilliana Warwick at the home of Atlas' sister. Lilliana
claims to have no family and desperately misses her sons, whom her husband had claimed, but she's oddly
frightened when they pass a certain royal carriage in the park. Then Mr. Warwick turns up dead at his
haberdashery off Bond Street. The Bow Street runner assigned to the case hints first at Atlas' guilt, then
Lilliana's. Atlas loves a puzzle and works at this one, unearthing startling truths. The first of a new series,
this historical mystery will appeal not only to cozy readers, but also to lovers of Regency romances.--Karen
Muller
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• Historical Novel Society
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  Word count: 260

  Quoted in Sidelights: wry humor and surprising twists,” “vivid” “please mystery fans.”
  Murder in Mayfair
  BY D. M. QUINCY

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  In 1814, adventurer Atlas Catesby sups at a country inn when he overhears a man who is selling his wife in the inn-yard. Catesby—the younger son of a baron and a man of honor—is astounded. To save the poor woman, he purchases her; his intention is to return her to her family. After discovering Lilliana has no family, he takes her to his sister’s in London. Lilliana is devastated to be separated from her children. Her husband is a scoundrel who refuses her access. Catesby grows anxious to return to his travels, yet he’s drawn to Lilliana and ponders her mysterious past. She’d married a tradesman, though she has the bearing of an aristocrat. When her husband is found murdered, a Bow Street Runner suspects Catesby of killing him. Catesby dives into the investigation to clear himself and the woman who had the most motive, and also tugs at his heart—Lilliana.

  The story isn’t complex, but the characters are vivid, each one with a unique personality. Why Atlas never asks Lilliana about her background—she could have refused to answer—was another mystery. Formal address of high-born persons in this era is mostly overlooked. With wry humor and surprising twists at the end, Murder in Mayfair will please mystery fans. This book is the first in a series involving the worthy Atlas Catesby.

• New York Journal of Books
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  Quoted in Sidelights: “Most Regency stories are delightful, and Murder in Mayfair, though it deals with a grisly subject, is no exception,” r “The positive and negative manners and modes of the day are well expressed.” “full of that witty dialogue one expects from this genre” “has some delightful characters,”
  Murder in Mayfair: An Atlas Catesby Mystery
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  Author(s):
  D. M. Quincy
  Release Date:
  July 10, 2017
  Publisher/Imprint:
  Crooked Lane Books
  Pages:
  304
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  Reviewed by:
  Toni V. Sweeney
  “As the first in a new series, this novel makes a successful start.”

  “Had his mount not lost its shoe on the return journey to London, Atlas Catesby would not have been in a position to purchase another man’s wife.” Thus is Atlas Catesby, younger son of a newly titled baron, thrust into a situation ending in murder.

  Atlas and his friend, the Earl of Charlton, are stopped at an inn when a gathering in the courtyard gets their attention. Godfrey Warwick, a local businessman, offers his wife for sale. Atlas is shaken by her plight and inadvertantly makes the highest bid.

  He’s surprised when Mrs. Warwick demands to be allowed to return to her husband. “It was the first time he’d heard her voice, and the clipped, upper class tones shocked him. This was no country lass.”

  There’s a mystery about Lilliana Warwick besides her cultured voice. Why does she wish to return to a man who’s degraded her by selling her like an unwanted mare?

  Answer: Lilliana doesn’t want to leave her children. “‘By law you have no right to them now that I’ve cast you out,’” Warwick informs her.

  Both Atlas and Warwick’s older brother John, a childless widower, try to reason with him to no avail. Atlas takes Lilliana to his sister Thea’s while he attempts to work out some arrangement so she may see her sons. “‘Any agreement would be null and void.’ Lilliana argues. ‘Legally I do not exist as a person independent of my husband. It would be as if Godfrey signed a contract with himself.’”

  A dangerous game follows.

  Lilliana attempts to see her children only to be physically ousted from the property. The servants helping her are fired without references. Atlas attempts ungentlemanly blackmail. Warwick laughs, hinting his wife has more to lose than he. “‘She’s hiding from someone or something. It’s why she married me, and buried herself in the country.’”

  Nevertheless, Atlas strives for a détente that Warwick resists. “‘The only recourse left for you is to deliver my wife back to me posthaste.’”

  Atlas makes the mistake of replying with what can only be a threat: “I’ll see you dead before I allow Mrs. Warwick returned to you.’” Those words will come back to haunt him, for during his attempts to help her, Atlas discovers an unnerving attraction to Lilliana.

  “They held each other’s gaze. Her eyes glittered against the smooth porcelain of her complexion. A strange, fierce sensation kindled deep in his belly. A fierce desire to protect her swept through him.”

  The next day, Atlas receives a letter from Warwick, revealing he’s had a change of heart: They can come to terms . . . for a price. When Atlas arrives at Warwick’s shop, events have taken a deadly turn. Godfrey Warwick has been murdered. A witness states he heard Atlas’ threat. He also claims to have discovered Atlas and Lilliana in a compromising position.

  Facing arrest, Atlas must clear his own name and find the real killer. His attempts uncover a number of unexplained facts as well as some family secrets—and many people have reasons to wish Warwick dead.

  What’s the mystery behind John Warwick’s wife’s death? What is the relationship between Lilliana and the Duke of Somerville? Why was Warwick blackmailing Kirby Nash, a tailor?

  There are too many secrets and too many motives. It’s a good thing Atlas has a knack for unraveling riddles and solving puzzles, for he’ll need all his mental expertise as well as his observational skills to solve this problem—his life, Lilliana’s welfare, and several reputations hang in the balance.

  Most Regency stories are delightful, and Murder in Mayfair, though it deals with a grisly subject, is no exception. The positive and negative manners and modes of the day are well expressed, as in the legal inequality where marriage is concerned. Methods of social behavior now acceptable in contemporary society also place several characters not only in jeopardy of losing status but of imprisonment and death, giving the story a widely diverse group of suspects.

  Full of that witty dialogue one expects from this genre, the novel has some delightful characters from the adventurous Atlas, to his friend Charlton, who may or may not be secretly in love with Atlas’ married sister, Thea, if his behavior around her is any indication.

  One complaint is the continual mention of two events with no true explanation. The death of Atlas’ sister Phoebe is often brought into conversation, with no backstory, as if the reader should already be aware of it and its import. Only much later in the story does Atlas speak of it in its entirety. How he was injured is never fully explained. Though this discrepancy doesn’t spoil reading pleasure, it does present a few irksome moments.

  As the first in a new series, this novel makes a successful start to Atlas Catesby’s crime-solving adventures.

  Toni V. Sweeney is the author of The Adventures of Sinbad and The Kan Ingan Archives series and also writes under the pseudonym Icy Snow Blackstone.

• San Francisco Book Review
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  Word count: 266

  Murder in Mayfair: An Atlas Catesby Mystery
  We rated this book:
  $26.99

  Any book that begins with a man selling his wife promises to be a fascinating read and, by and large, Murder in Mayfair delivers. The salesman-husband is the victim foreshadowed in the book’s title and, naturally, his wife and her rescuer-purchaser are the chief suspects. The latter, Atlas Catesby, again, naturally, sets out to find the real killer. Set in Regency England, the novel conveys well the power of men over women (chattel owned by their husbands) and that of the rich over the poor, obstacles Catesby must navigate in his pursuit of the murderer. Along the way, he unearths suspects of varying social status – a tradesman, a magistrate, a peer of the realm. Blackmail, a botched abortion, rape, and the sold wife’s own mysterious background, all add to the intrigue of this well-plotted story. That said, the prose contributes little, if anything, to the tale’s excitement or suspense. Clear and grammatically correct though it may be, it lacks both energy and subtlety, is often brittle and labored, and rarely flows. Nor does the ending quite live up to the expectations generated by the startling opening, but, nonetheless, Murder in Mayfair is a well-crafted mystery and well worth reading.

  Reviewed By: Lyn Squire
  Author: D. M. Quincy
  Star Count: 3.5/5
  Format: Hard
  Page Count: 304 pages
  Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
  Publish Date: 2017-Jul-11
  ISBN: 9781683312253
  Amazon: Buy this Book
  Issue: July 2017
  Category: Mystery, Crime & Thriller
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• Publishers Weekly
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  Word count: 258

  Quoted in Sidelights: “evokes both the contradictions of her setting and the romantic tensions between her protagonists,”
  Murder in Bloomsbury: An Atlas Catesby Mystery
  D.M. Quincy. Crooked Lane, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-68331-465-3

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  In Quincy’s solid second Atlas Catesby mystery (after 2017’s Murder in Mayfair), world traveler Catesby and the widowed Lady Roslyn Lilliana Warwick investigate the sudden death of her maid’s brother in Regency-era London. The coroner has ruled that Gordon Davis, a footman turned factory clerk, accidentally overdosed on the arsenic he took for medical reasons, but the form of arsenic in his body doesn’t match the type he habitually used. Davis was a seductive schemer determined to marry into wealth. Those who wished him dead include the father of a youth he lured into gambling debt, the aristocrats whose daughters he compromised, and the conventional young woman whose scandalously explicit letters he threatened to reveal. As Catesby untangles the victim’s many intrigues, his passion for Lilliana reawakens, but the social chasm between a baron’s fourth son and the sister of one of England’s most powerful dukes still deters him from asking for her hand. Quincy evokes both the contradictions of her setting and the romantic tensions between her protagonists, though anachronistic attitudes and language throughout can jar. Readers will look forward to Catesby and Lilliana’s further adventures. Agent: Kevan Lyon, Marsal Lyon Literary Agency. (Feb.)
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  Release date: 02/01/2018

• Kirkus
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  Word count: 395

  Quoted in Sidelights: “they grace the ballrooms of the aristocracy and visit pornographic booksellers.” “a spirited and romantic mystery with a most surprising ending.”
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  KIRKUS REVIEW
  Who would want to poison the handsome footman? That’s what adventurer and amateur sleuth Atlas Catesby tries to discover at the behest of the woman he loves, Lady Roslyn Lilliana Sterling, sister to the Duke of Somerville.

  Catesby is well-born—his father was a famous poet—but of moderate means. He hardly considers himself worthy of Lilliana, whom he helped out of a dangerous situation when he knew her only as an ordinary tradesman’s widow (Murder in Mayfair, 2017, etc.). Somerville summons Catesby to do a favor for Lilliana, whose maid Tacy’s brother, Gordon Davis, has been found poisoned by arsenic. Although Davis’ death has been ruled an accident, Tacy insists that he was murdered by one of his many enemies. Catesby can never resist a difficult puzzle, and a chance to spend time with Lilliana is an added fillip. Davis, who worked at a dye factory that used arsenic, allegedly stole some and took small amounts for his health, although the arsenic found in his stomach was white, not the sooty kind used at the factory. As more of Davis’ activities are discovered, Catesby confirms that there are indeed plenty of motives for murder. Davis was romancing everyone from married women to innocent young girls in hopes of making an advantageous marriage. Catesby and Lilliana must use their diverse skills and contacts to find out just who these women are and whether there is a husband or father angry enough to kill. In the course of their search, they grace the ballrooms of the aristocracy and visit pornographic booksellers. Despite Catesby’s reluctance to woo Lilliana, they’re drawn closer together as they hunt a very angry killer.

  A spirited and romantic mystery with a most surprising ending.

  Pub Date: Feb. 13th, 2018
  ISBN: 978-1-68331-465-3
  Page count: 336pp
  Publisher: Crooked Lane
  Review Posted Online: Dec. 12th, 2017
  Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1st, 2018

• Fresh Fiction
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  Word count: 383

  Spy Fall
  Diana Quincy
  Reviewed by Clare O'Beara
  Posted January 27, 2015

  Romance Historical

  This first in the Regency Spymasters series certainly combines some great fun elements. Lord Cosmo Dunsmore can't believe his eyes when an angel falls from the sky in front of him. Maybe it's the fault of his good French brandy. Mari Lamarre however is an aeronaut, a daredevil who jumps with a silken parachute from a balloon. SPY FALL involves spying, smuggling and falling in love.

  The southwest English coast is notorious for smuggling French brandy to avoid duty, connived at by the wealthy who are buying the brandy. With Napoleon in power in France there is an uneasy peace but soon the might of the French army will be turning to invasion. Lord Cosmo's family owns a coastal residence, and he's not so hungover as to ignore the fact that this French-speaking lady Mari might be a spy. What's more, she wears riding breeches so she's no fine debutante. Cosmo feels free to proposition her. The lady declines, mainly because she's more interested in seeing to her aerostation equipment. At this time her family's balloons are filled with hydrogen, always a fire risk, and her adventurous brothers won't be far away.

  I had a smashing time learning about the early stages of parachuting, having made a jump myself under a modern canopy. Staging jumps during exhibitions is a way to earn money to pursue the science; at this time the canopy supports a wicker gondola which holds the parachutist. The characters are all intelligent interesting people, from Cosmo's statesman father to a neighbouring young lady Rosie who collects fossils and writes to science journals under a masculine name. Conversations are lively, often with double meanings, and there are plenty of references to events of the day, such as the French chess sets no longer using a king and queen. Cosmo, like Sir Percy in The Scarlet Pimpernel, is less drunk and more sharp then he pretends, so the spying game also has double dealing. As for Mari, what a fantastic heroine.

  There's drama, danger and wicked bedroom scenes in this adult romance. Lovers of historical fiction could hardly do better than Diana Quincy's SPY FALL.

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