Maureen Lee
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Maureen Lee was born in Bootle, England, UK, near Liverpool during the World War II. She attended Commercial College and became a shorthand typist. She married Richard, and they had three sons, now adults. The last years the marriage lives in Colchester, Essex. During years, she published over one hundred and fifty short-stories, before published her first novel Lila in 1983. She continued published dramatic historical sagas mainly setting in Liverpool since 1994. In 2000, her novel Dancing in the Dark won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Books
Dancing in the dark
Teenage girls are disappearing from this town where an idyllic beach community is terrorized, and where one reporter must get to the truth to protect her family. Trying to mix business with pleasure, KEY News correspondent Diane Mayfield has brought her children and her sister to the New Jersey shore town of Ocean Grove to investigate a story on "girls who cry wolf" for the season premiere of Hourglass, television's highly rated news magazine. Diane lands an exclusive interview with a troubled young woman whose tale of being abducted and held against her will for three terrifying days had been disbelieved by the authorities. No sooner does Diane finish taping the interview, though, than a second victim disappears. The small community, already in the grip of a record heat wave, is now wracked by fear and terror, no one knows who could be next. With only the first victim as eyewitness, Diane and the police turn to her for clues. But it may be too late to save Diane and her loved ones from the mortal danger that lurks in Ocean Grove.
Three Great Novels
Old House on the Corner
The newcomers bring with them their own dramas; the mismatched lovers, Kathleen and Steve; Rachel, who is attempting to forget a terrible tragedy; upper-class Sarah and her children, on the run from an abusive husband.
After The War Is Over
Liverpool, 1945. Three women, strong friends, return home from the war trying to fit back into their old lives after they've been demobbed. They've been thrown together by the war and shared all sorts of good and bad times. Now their old lives seem dull in comparison, but not for long ... Bestseller Maureen Lee returns to Bootle in this heartwarming tale set between Liverpool and London in the post-war years.
Liverpool Annie
From a happy, crowded family life in Bootle with her Aunt in the 40s, to misery in Seaforth with her reclusive mother and then to The Grand to live with Sylvia, her rich school friend, Annie's early life is full of contrasts.
Romantic Short Stories
ONCE UPON A TIME by Greta Nelson RETURN TO EDEN by Elizabeth Case THE SMILE ON THE FACE OF MISS PRINGLE by Roma Grover WHEN WINTER COMES by Maureen Lee FARMER JO by Frances Melvin THE COMMISSION by Rachel Murray LIFE IS FOR LIVING by Jo Francis WAITING FOR GRIZELDA by Roma Grover FATHER'S ROSE by Gemma Leighton BEGINNINGS by Greta Nelson
Mother of Pearl
Amy Curran and Barney Patterson believed their marriage was made in heaven, but war separated them for five long years, and when Barney returned to Liverpool after VE Day he wasn't the same person - neither was Amy. How could things become so twisted that Amy would kill her adored husband - and what happened to their little girl, Pearl, just five years old? In 1971 Amy is released from prison and tentatively begins to rebuild her relationship with Pearl, but she is keeping a terrible secret she hopes never to share with her daughter, which has already wrecked more than one life.