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third in the Darcy Farthing cruise adventure series

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Currents Deep and Deadly - The first Darcy Farthing novel:  The adventure begins

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Praise for Currents Deep and Deadly

mystery, thrills, and

romance on a cruise ship

 “Find adventure, romance, mystery, bizarre interconnected coincidences, brutal murders and a journey of self discovery on a luxury cruise ship . . . Alleman has done her homework. . . with well-researched details . . . [she] successfully keeps the reader guessing who-dun-it . . . and wraps up the loose ends while nicely setting up the sequel.”  --Readers Choice                                                                                              

 “Great read . . . the story will not disappoint . . . Alleman’s character development is superb and her writing style is captivating . . .Travel lovers will enjoy the travel side . . . and mystery lovers will enjoy the suspense . . . 

--Bookbuzz                                                                         

"Alleman's ability to tell a story is incredible . . . [her] writing ability in developing such an intricate plot and pulling it off is superb . . ."

--Mary Deal

“. . . An entertaining novel. . . characters you care about, plots that hold your interest, and descriptions of cruising and island hopping that make you feel the sun and soft ocean air in your face.”

 

“Travel, intrigue, romance . . . what a great combination . . . characters that you keep rooting for in fabulous places . . . A great mystery!”

 “The author did a great job blending historical and geographical points with murder-mystery on a cruise ship . . . it read like a true story.”

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Writing this novel is a life-long dream come true, which goes to show it is never to late to fulfill a dream.  I hope you read a description of the story and an excerpt, or ask to see a copy when you visit The Barn. 

My story is a murder/mystery with romance and intrigue, and a travel log of Caribbean and South American sea ports.  The setting is a cruise ship sailing around Cape Horn, South America.

Currents of Vengeance, a Darcy Farthing novel

 coming in August 2011

The adventure continues:

Darcy is adjusting to her new career as an author and struggling with Mick's mysterious depression and anxiety. She wonders what has happened to the romance they found on their ill-fated South American cruise.  With her "new" daughter Rachael's encouragement, she finds herself struggling against an unexpected attraction to her ex-husband, successful Vegas businessman, Brooks Larkin.

In a surprising turn of events, she and Rachael accompany Mick and the Sea Nymph's ex-chief of security, Tom Smythe, on a second cruise around South America.  This time, Mick and Tom are conducting a GAO/FBI investigation of crime on cruise ships, while trying to find evidence to prosecute Paul Denezza, the ruthless hotel and casino owner, for his crimes on the first cruise.  Instead of a relaxing vacation, Darcy and the others encounter more violence, madness, and mystery as currents from the first cruise rise to the surface and threaten to pull them under.  A cast of quirky psychologically flawed characters bent on revenge against the World of Seas cruise line and our travelers provides non-stop action and surprises.

 

Introduction

To keep your sanity when it seems everything in your life has gone over-the-top crazy, you can step back from the action and try to gain an astronaut's perspective of the world. But when you find yourself getting lost in the tranquility of that detached view it's time to dive into a current and get back in the flow. Darcy Farthing-Currents of Vengeance

My name is Darcy Farthing and I learned this lesson while trying to cope with the emotional upheaval that began in February 2008, when I returned from my now famous and ill-fated South American voyage.  As I tried to sort out all the unbelievable events that had taken place over the four-week cruise, I really wanted to believe my life would be much better than before it all happened.  After all, I had my beautiful daughter, Rachael, back in my life and I had left a lot of pain behind—pain I had kept locked in a psychological prison for years.

I had also found my old best friend, Sidney, who had become part of my life again, and of course I had met my Mick.  Sure, he and I had many things to resolve before we could really get on with our relationship, since he lived in DC and I was in Colorado.  But back then those problems just seemed like logistics.  Well, as we were soon to discover, they were a little more than that and geography turned out to be the least of our problems.   

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Author Arleen Alleman Introduces New Book, Currents of Vengeance, as Cruise Ship Safety Remains in Headlines

In her Darcy Farthing mystery series, author Arleen Alleman uses luxury cruising as a backdrop for her page-turning plots says M3 New Media.

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Arleen Alleman at Book Signing on a Cruise Ship

Castle Rock, CO (PRWEB) January 25, 2012

As the recent Costa Cruises accident literally makes waves in the headlines, cruise ship safety is becoming an issue of concern for many people. Unfortunately, tragic accidents are not the only safety issue for luxury cruisers: innumerable crimes go unprosecuted, since the law becomes problematic in international waters between ports.

In her Darcy Farthing mystery series, author Arleen Alleman uses luxury cruising as a backdrop for her page-turning plots. In the first book, Currents Deep and Deadly, Darcy Farthing came face to face with a vicious killer; in her new book, Currents of Vengeance, the second installment in the Darcy Farthing series, Darcy returns to South America aboard the Sea Nymph to accompany her boyfriend, Mick Clayton, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) manager, and the now unemployed Tom Smythe, a close friend of the couple and the former chief of security on the Sea Nymph to conduct a joint GAO/FBI Congressional investigation of unprosecuted crimes on cruise ships.

The team quickly encounters even more violence and madness, engrossing readers as the story unfolds on the page before them. While unprosecuted crimes at sea make for compelling fiction, Alleman’s stories are based on a very dangerous reality. On Friday, January 20th, ABC News’s 20/20 explored the topic in a special called “Cruise Ship Confidential,” and the 18 month deadline Obama set for implementing cruise ship safety in his July of 2010 bill aimed at making cruise lines more accountable quickly approaches.

Currents Deep and Deadly and Currents of Vengeance are simultaneously page-turners and timely explorations of a serious and overlooked issue, making for a series that is impossible to put down. By casting a light on some serious issues, Alleman gives her series an added layer of meaning, which, combined with the treatment of other serious topics, gives her the unique distinction of bringing depth and substance to the mystery genre.

The Darcy Farthing Mystery Adventure Series

Alleman’s series centers around Darcy Farthing, a pragmatic woman in her forties, who readers were first introduced to in Currents Deep and Deadly. After coming face to face with a vicious murderer in the first novel, she wrote a book about the madness she confronted, which completely changed her life, both personally and financially. The third installment in this page-turning series, Current Assets, is slated for release in Autumn of 2012. To watch the book trailers, visit http://www.arleenalleman.com/trailer.htm.

Arleen Alleman

Arleen Alleman spent 21 years as an analyst for the Government Accountability Office. After retiring from the GAO, Alleman and her husband became avid cruisers, which inspired her to write stories set on cruise ships. In her two six-week cruises around Cape Horn; the first was spent writing her book and the second was spent doing book signings and promoting her books. For more about Arleen Alleman or to interview her visit her website http://www.arleenalleman.com/ or follow her on Twitter @AAllemanWrites or send her an email Arleenla(at)aol(dot)com

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