Time Enough to Die
Wildside Press
October 1, 2002
ISBN-13: 1592249817
Available in: Hardcover
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Time Enough to Die
by Lillian Stewart Carl
Matilda Gray is an expert on antiquities, especially the Roman and Celtic artifacts found in Great Britain. But Matilda has learned that such relics of time past are not valued only by museums but by unscrupulous collectors. Looking too closely into the illegal antiquities trade in these treasures is dangerous, even deadly.
Gareth March is a Scotland Yard detective who must work with Matilda to solve the murder of a woman who knew too much about stolen antiquities. Solving the murder will earn him a promotion. And more—perhaps a greater treasure than Celtic gold is a relationship appearing when he least expects it, if he can only let down his guard and learn to trust.
Caught up in the investigation is lovely young Ashley Walraven, an American student who is excavating a Roman fort. But Ashley discovers more than historical artifacts when she meets Nick, a dark and handsome young man hiding a dark and disturbing secret.
The murder case, the case of the stolen antiquities, and the treasure coming to light at the excavation are all tied inextricably together. But there are too many people caught in the knots for Gareth and Matilda's comfort, among them the archaeologist in charge of the dig, the belligerent owner of a nearby horse farm, his mousy wife, and elegant dealer in antiquities, and the dealer's street- tough assistant.
At last Matilda and Gareth have to stop arguing about the case and begin a race against time to prevent another murder. They do, after all, agree on one thing: the risk of death makes life and love all the sweeter. There's always time enough to die.
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Lillian Stewart Carl's Bio
After growing up in Missouri and Ohio and spending many years in North Texas, I've developed a passion for mountains and oceans, particularly the ones in Scotland, which is heaven's front porch and which I visit as often as possible. In my youth I was lucky enough to travel to other parts of Europe, the Middle East, India, and Japan.
While I've worked a few "real" jobs, as an engineering aide, a librarian, a newspaper columnist, and a college history teacher, all along I was writing stories and critiques first for my desk drawer and then for fan magazines. My first professional fiction was published in the Amazons II anthology in 1982.
My husband is a retired geophysicist. Our two adult sons are in advertising and computers respectively. We have a cat, a thirteen-pound tabby, and an assortment of houseplants I view as rentals -- how long can I keep them before they die? Our home is a tract house cleverly disguised as a book-lined cloister.
My hobbies (or what I do when I'm trying to avoid working) include needlepoint and knitting, bread-baking, music (particularly Celtic folk/rock), gardening, public television, walking and yoga, and crossword puzzles.
Unlike more methodical writers, I never sat up one day and said, "I'm going to start writing now". I've always written, just as I've always read. Just as I've always breathed, for that matter. And I've been aided and abetted since the age of twelve by my best friend, science fiction writer Lois McMaster Bujold.
If I could be anything other than a writer (as if!) I'd probably be a librarian.
Over the years I've been inventing my own genre, mystery/romance with supernatural/ historical/ mythological underpinnings. And I've become a firm believer in the odd synchronies of the writing life. Soon after finishing Ashes to Ashes, for example, which is about a woman from Missouri named Rebecca working in a replica of a Scottish castle, I visited the real castle and discovered the tour guide was a woman from Oklahoma named Rebecca.
I am a member or former member of SFWA, MWA, Sisters in Crime, Novelists, Inc., and The Author's Guild.
