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Karen Harrington

Karen Harrington

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Karen Harrington is the author of the psychological suspense novel, JANEOLOGY (Kunati, 2008). She was born and raised in Texas, where she still lives with her husband and children. She received a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Texas at Dallas.

Karen's first writing gigs were in corporate America as an editor and speechwriter. Her fiction writing has been recognized by the Hemingway Short Story Competition and the Texas Film Institute.

She authored and published There's A Dog In The Doorway, a children's book created expressly for the Dr. Laura Schlessinger Foundation's "MyStuff Bags." 

"My Stuff" bags go to children in need who must leave their homes due to abuse, neglect or abandonment

A Shadow in Yucatan

A Shadow in Yucatan

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<p>A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.</p><p>An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.</p><p>Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.</p><p>The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.</p>

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<p><strong>PRAISE FOR JANEOLOGY<strong></strong></strong></p> <p><em>Harrington begins with a fascinating premise and develops it fully. Tom and his wife emerge as compelling, complexly developed individuals. This debut novel is as much a character study as a legal thriller.<em> -- <strong>BOOKLIST<strong></strong></strong></em></em></p> <p>Janeology is a thought-provoking and thoroughly engaging read. --<strong> BOOKBITCH<strong></strong></strong></p> <p>In a thriller world saturated with James Pattersons, John Grishams and Stephen Kings, this debut novel from Karen Harrington comes as a breath of fresh air. The whole drama culminates in a finish that will rattle your genes. -- <strong>NEW MYSTERY READER<strong></strong></strong></p> <p>Not only is Harrington a masterful conjurer of a suspenseful thriller, but she is also a wordsmith able to maintain the reader's attention and involvement in her masterful exploration of the science of psychology, genetics, and the fascination with the concept of retrocognition, all the while unraveling a mystery not unlike decoding a strand of DNA.-- <strong>GRADY HARP, AMAZON VINE VOICE<strong></strong></strong></p> <p>A legal thriller of a style you've never read before. Five stars! -- <strong>REBECCA'S READS<strong></strong></strong></p> <p>This reader was swept along in the riptide of this tragedy. I felt as if I were sitting in the courtroom, awaiting a verdict right alongside Tom. -- <strong>DEBRA GAYNOR/REVIEW YOUR BOOK<strong></strong></strong></p> <p></p> <p>Beautifully written, Janeology will leave you wondering if the author, Karen Harrington, was peeking in the window of our own homes. -- <strong>DONALD T. PHILLIPS, AUTHOR, UNTO US A CHILD: THE TRUE STORY OF AN AMERICAN FAMILY<strong></strong></strong></p> <p>The story line is fast-paced and gripping as readers will want to know what caused Jane to kill her son and attempt to kill her daughter.&quot; --<strong>HARRIET KLAUSNER, AMAZON #1 REVIEWER<strong></strong></strong></p>