Betta Ferrendelli

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Betta Ferrendelli

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I have been an award-winning journalist since 1989, having worked at newspapers and magazines in Denver, Seattle and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
I am the author of the award-winning and Amazon best-selling Samantha Church Mystery Series, featuring The Friday Edition (named one of the best books of 2013 by Kirkus and a Readers' Favorite gold medal winner), Revenge is Sweet, Dead Wrong, Cold Case No. 99-5219 (a Readers' Favorite gold medal winner), On the Border, The Long Way Home and Point of Origin.
I have also written two award-winning books in contemporary women's fiction: Last Things and An Invincible Summer.
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Betta Ferrendelli I keep writing. It is a lot easier to edit something when it's on paper then nothing at all. I am always surprised to realize that as long as I keep w…moreI keep writing. It is a lot easier to edit something when it's on paper then nothing at all. I am always surprised to realize that as long as I keep writing, sooner or later the words are going to come and they are, more often than not, better than I thought they would be.(less)
Betta Ferrendelli You get to put your thoughts on paper and people read them. Even better when they take the time to contact you, or post a candid review.
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A Crime Collection - Boxed Set

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Point of Origin by Betta Ferrendelli
"Wow! Book 7, POINT OF ORIGIN by Betta Ferrendelli, is terrific. I recommend you start with the first book so you get the back story. Samantha Church is an investigative journalist with a weekly paper in a suburb of Denver, Colorado. She has had a rou" Read more of this review »
Point of Origin by Betta Ferrendelli
"Point of Origin looks beyond the fires of an arsonist(s) into the emotional trauma of the tragic death of a sibling, alcoholism, and childhood guilt. The author Betta Ferendelli intertwines several story lines to keep the reader interested, and provi" Read more of this review »
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"couldn’t put it down

Another great Samantha church story. Sam helps solve a 2 year string of arson cases in a great story i could hardly stand to put down at night. Looking forward to book 8!"
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"Real life story

A mistake that you make as a child can change your world forever.
The bond between twins can never be broken and luckily they had each other to help them through life.
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“The answer is always no unless you ask.”
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“Each life lived eventually became a book. How a single letter becomes a word, becomes a sentence, becomes a paragraph, before finally becoming a chapter and on and on and on until cycle of life ends and the book has been written.”
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“laptop that the detectives said contained her”
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Dale Thele Betta, thanx for accepting my friend request :)


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