If you love romantic suspense, you won’t want to miss this interview! Award-winning and best-selling romantic suspense author Patricia Bradley gives us a peek at some of her favorite books before we get a peek at her newest release. Keep reading!
What was the first chapter book you read? What did you like about it?
I was reading before I started school—at least the comic strips. I can remember being so upset that I couldn’t have a library card until I was in the first grade, but when I did get one, I checked out a biography of Will Rogers in the juvenile section. I loved that book. For days I went around whistling and trying to use a lariat like Will did in the book.
What was the first book you read that you couldn’t put down?
When I was in the tenth grade, one day I checked Leon Uris’ novel, Exodus, from the library and started on it when I got home. I read all night, finishing it at five a.m. (It was a BIG book) and then got ready for school. My English teacher didn’t believe that I’d read the book, much less stayed up all night to do so. I loved that book and it still impacts me to this day. It’s one reason I went to Israel.
What was the last book you read that you couldn’t put down?
About two weeks ago, I started Elizabeth Goddard’s Critical Alliance and at two a.m. had to get some sleep. I finished it the next morning. Could not put it down because I had to see what happened next. Fabulous book!
If you could have dinner with any fictional character, who would it be?
I would love to have dinner with Scout’s dad in To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch. Well, actually the whole family. That was another favorite of mine growing up. I would like to know if he was more like the character in the final draft of To Kill a Mockingbird or the earlier one of Go Set a Watchman. I don’t think Harper Lee ever wanted the earlier version released.
If you could be part of any fictional family, which would you pick?
Earl Hamner’s Spencer Mountain, the novel The Waltons TV show was based on. They are just a neat family!
Who’s your favorite author?
That’s almost like asking me which child I like best…I have many author friends, and I love all their books. I owe a debt of gratitude to Susan May Warren and Rachel Hauck because they taught me how to write. And then all the ones who have brainstormed with me like Johnnie Alexander and Delores Topliff…not to mention Jessica R. Patch, Lynette Eason and Beth Goddard and Susan Sleeman…so do you see why I can’t name a favorite? 😉
Share five books from your TBR (to be read) pile.
Lineage of Corruption by Robin Patchen
Ben in Trouble by Luana Ehrlich
Lethal Defense by Michael Stagg
The Dark Guest by Sarah Hamaker
Every Star in the Sky by Sara Davidson
After being forced to kill an FBI agent gone rogue in self-defense while working in the violent crimes unit for the Investigative Services Branch, ranger Madison Thorn is comfortable with her move to the fraud and cyber division. At least numbers don’t lie. So she’s less than thrilled when a white-collar crime investigation in Natchez, Mississippi, turns violent. She could also do without being forced to work with former-childhood-enemy-turned-infuriatingly-handsome park ranger Clayton Bradshaw.
When a woman who looks just like Madison is attacked on the same night Madison’s grandfather is shot, it becomes clear that there is something much bigger going on here and that Madison herself is in danger. Madison and Clayton will have to work together–and suppress their growing feelings for one another–if they are to discover the truth before it’s too late.
USA Today bestselling and award-winning author Patricia Bradley closes out her popular Natchez Trace Park Rangers series with this complex story of family secrets, mixed motives, and learning to trust.
Patricia Bradley is a Romantic Suspense Selah winner, Carol and Daphne du Maurier finalist, and the winner of an Inspirational Readers’ Choice Award. Three anthologies that included her stories debuted on the USA Today Best Seller List.
She and her two cats call Northeast Mississippi home—the South is also where she sets most of her books. Her romantic suspense novels include the Logan Point series, the Memphis Cold Case Novels, and the Natchez Trace Park Rangers. She now hard at work on the second book in her new Pearl River series set in the Cumberland Plateau area above Chattanooga.
Writing workshops include American Christian Fiction Writers, the Mid-South Christian Writer’s Conference, the KenTen and Scrivener retreats where she was the keynote, Memphis American Christian Fiction Writer group, and the Bartlett Christian Writers group. When she has time, she likes to throw mud on a wheel and see what happens.
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