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Celia Conrad

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Born

The United Kingdom

Website

http://www.aliciaalleninvestigates.com

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Genre

Crime Fiction, Mystery & Suspense, Self Help

Influences

My legal background, love of languages and Italy...

Member Since

July 2013

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Writer and author of legal books and crime fiction (legal mysteries), with a love for reading and a passion for all things Italian!

I come from a legal background hence the legal handbooks, but the idea of writing a crime novel came to me after relaying to a friend some experience I had had within the law and him asking whether I had ever considered putting my thoughts down on paper. A Model Murder started with some pencil scribblings jotted down on the back of an envelope. My then literary agent told me that I would have to write more than one book to be taken seriously as a crime writer which led to Wilful Murder and finally Murder in Hand to complete the first Alicia Allen Investigates series.

Alicia is very much the product of my imagina ...more

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Celia Conrad’s books

Average rating: 3.72 · 85 ratings · 28 reviews · 4 distinct works

	A Model Murder (Alicia Allen Investigates Trilogy #1) 3.75 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wilful Murder 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder in Hand (Alicia Allen Investigates Trilogy #3) 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fathers Matter: A Guide to Contact on Separation and Divorce 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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William Shakespeare and the Italian Book Club?

As the author ofAlicia Allen Investigates–a legal crime trilogywith a strong Italian cultural theme and a female protagonist who is Anglo-Italian–I was intrigued and keen to discover more about Dr. FedericoConforto and hisItalian Book Club. A few months ago, my publicist Marlan Warren suggested the club to me, and I found its website impressive. But whenI chanced upon an interview in the Huffingto Read more of this blog post »

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Series by Celia Conrad

Alicia Allen Investigates Trilogy (3 books)
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Worlds Within Verona's Walls

by Vivienne Raffaele

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The Fate Book

by Peter Van Minnen

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La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian, the World's Most Enchanting Language

by Dianne Hales (Goodreads Author)

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Quotes by Celia Conrad (?)

“He told me he was used to getting what he wanted.”
― Celia Conrad, A Model Murder

tags: a-model-murder, british-detectives, british-murder-mysteries, british-women-authors, celia-conrad, lawyers-in-hell, sexism, sexual-harassment, strippers, women-authors

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“Look to the past to see what the future holds.”
― Celia Conrad, Wilful Murder

tags: british-authors, british-detectives, celia-conrad, family-relationships, genealogy, murder-mystery, wilful-murder

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“Lawyers aren't the most popular people, Miss Allen..."—Murder in Hand”
― Celia Conrad

tags: alicia-allen, alicia-allen-investigates, british-women-mystery-authors, celia-conrad, cozy-murder-mystery, crime-fiction, legal-thriller, murder-in-hand

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Celia’s Quotes

“Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.”
― Jonathan Swift

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“Your work is both good and original but the part which is original is not good and the part which is good is not original!”
― Samuel Johnson

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“The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~ ”
― Thomas A. Edison

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“I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.”
― Norman Mailer

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“I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.”
― Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words: Marilyn Monroe's Revealing Last Words and Her Photographs

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