4 Books Published by Chistell Publishing on AALBC — Book Cover Collage

Click for more detail about Spiral  by Denise Turney Spiral

by Denise Turney
Chistell Publishing (Jun 02, 2022)
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HAUNTING SUSPENSE NOVEL WILL GRIP YOU FROM THE START
Thrilling murder mystery with a cliffhanger ending!

A page turning thriller murder mystery written in the vein of The Lovely Bones, The Changeling and Ghosts, Spiral is a suspenseful murder mystery powered by the unsolved death of a girl who turns up missing in Memphis, Tennessee’s Shelby County.

SPIRAL HIGHLIGHTS:
✔Perfect blend of detective suspense and paranormal thriller
✔Could two spiritually gifted children hold the keys to this town’s future?
✔Small town cover-ups with huge consequences

It’s the roaring 1940s.

HAUNTING TENNESSEE HISTORY - IT’S TIME THE TRUTH WAS TOLD
Unethical traditions that the powerful work hard to keep secret, bear a fruit that demands a hard-to-pay price in this murder mystery. The year is 1944 and a young girl, the daughter of a prominent attorney, has disappeared. What if this girl’s disappearance is linked to the abandoned girl kept hidden away in one of the Shelby County orphanages, what if her disappearance has deeper ties to the town’s elite than anyone imagined.

As the search for the kidnapper unfolds, it becomes hauntingly clear that the attorney’s young daughter isn’t the only child who has gone missing. Despite relentless efforts to find the girl and stop another kidnapping, it’s not until the young African American Tilson girl, a gifted child who hears from the dead, gets involved in the mystery that the crimes start to get solved. Get Spiral and find out what a dead girl, the daughter of a prominent attorney, shares with an unassuming but gifted African American child, she too the daughter of a prominent, powerful family.


Click for more detail about Long Walk Up: Childhood Journey From Tragedy To Triumph by Denise Turney Long Walk Up: Childhood Journey From Tragedy To Triumph

by Denise Turney
Chistell Publishing (Apr 30, 2007)
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"However long the night, the dawn will break." — African Proverb Long Walk Up is the gripping tale of Mulukan, a young orphan girl who, despite the odds against her, continues her journey from poverty and despair en route to her remarkable and triumphant destiny. Long Walk Up also tells the story of the African community Mulukan and her family are rooted in, a community facing extension beneath heavy blows of drought and malaria. A choice young Mulukan makes could cost the community tremendous upset. Not one for tending to others feelings until they halt her own progress, Mulukan sets out on a path that leads her into history records.


Click for more detail about Love Has Many Faces by Denise Turney Love Has Many Faces

by Denise Turney
Chistell Publishing (Jun 01, 2000)
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The trappings of fame engulf Leslie and Robin. The privileges of wealth are shared by all who know them. Romances are fleeting. Life doesn’t seem frail until death looms and a stalker threatens murder. A book about two powerful and uncommon women and the tension, joy and frustration of long friendship. A book about friends who shape each others future until their lives collide into a surprise-climatic ending! In two words - a page turner.


Click for more detail about Portia by Denise Turney Portia

by Denise Turney
Chistell Publishing (Aug 01, 1998)
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Portia is a journey through several generations of a family as perceived through the senses, emotions and memories of one of its courageous, insightful and non-crowd following members, Portia. The story realistically examines certain aspects of existence, perseverance and love between family members as well as the tenderness and affection which can only occur between soul mates. From a young lady coming of age to a career woman glimpsing her own mortality while confronting an uncertain future, Portia will tug on the reader’s heart strings all along the way.