{"id":693,"date":"2013-04-14T14:08:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T14:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.studiopress.com\/author\/?post_type=books&#038;p=691"},"modified":"2019-02-20T18:38:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T18:38:22","slug":"color-of-lies","status":"publish","type":"books","link":"https:\/\/newregardmedia.com\/abbe\/book\/color-of-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Color of Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In the Skagit River Valley<\/strong>\u2014gateway to the Pacific Northwest wilderness\u2014vegetation, birds, and people are inexplicably dying. Does the river carry pollutants from illegal waste sites?<\/p>\n<p><strong>A bully\u2019s greed has trapped her victims in a toxic web:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<strong>JoAnne<\/strong>, a former World War II pilot, is wheelchair-bound after an accident veiled in secrets.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Maria<\/strong>, JoAnne\u2019s niece and professional pilot, masks the unresolved pain of childhood abandonment.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Spencer<\/strong>, an organic vintner, suspects the rich valley soil has been polluted by undocumented wastes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Russell<\/strong>, a spunky 95-year-old ham radio buff, intercepts curious messages that provide clues to the decades-long cover-up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Threatened with exposure, the perpetrator steps up the assault, and her victims must join with the community to save the valley. All must face difficult truths in order to halt the accumulation of more than one kind of toxic behavior.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Readers can purchase this book at a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/indie-bookstore-finder\">\u00a0local Bookstore<\/a> like<a href=\"https:\/\/www.villagebooks.com\/book\/9780984511914\">Village Books<\/a> \u00a0in Bellingham, Washington, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780984511914\">Indie Bound,<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cocoon-Cancer-Invitation-Love-Deeply\/dp\/0984511938\">Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bookstores can purchase through their distributor or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipgbook.com\/color-of-lies-products-9780984511914.php?page_id=21\">Independent Publishers Group.<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Why I wrote Color of Lies<\/h4>\n<p>On my first date with my husband I talked about honesty and how I hated lies in any color. The theme resonated and I wrote those words down. It took another three years for a story to follow.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Color of Lies Abbe Rolnick creates an antagonist so despicable and repellent that interest in any redemptive qualities keep the reader intrigued and involved in the novel all the way from beginning to end. Molly McCain is a villain as mean and venal as Hannibal Lecter but nowhere near as attractive or lovable as Anthony Hopkins. Power is something that Molly McCain craves and she will destroy anything standing in her way to get it: her family, her neighbors, and the environment. &#8211; <strong>Peter G<\/strong>., Reviewer<\/p>\n<p>An enjoyable read, a good mystery, a great message and lesson to be learned. Color of Lies is a story of aviation, history, and the interconnectedness of people. It\u2019s also an effective environmental \u201cwhy do it\u201d in contrast to the usual mystery \u201cwho dunnit.\u201d Rolnick succeeds in pulling all these themes together with a tight plot that keeps the action moving forward to the ultimate denouement. &#8211; <strong>Marcus L<\/strong>., Reviewer<\/p>\n<p>With great skill Rolnick deftly moves back and forth through multiple points of view. &#8211; <strong>Jillian K<\/strong>., Reviewer<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>Questions &amp; Answers about Color of Lies<\/h4>\n<h5>What inspired you to tell this story and how much is based on research versus experience?<\/h5>\n<p><em>Color of Lies<\/em>\u00a0started on my first date with my present husband.\u00a0 One of our discussions was about trust and lies.\u00a0 I heard myself say that there are many colors of lies, and of course I wrote those words down knowing that a story would come.\u00a0 Two years later I glimpsed a woman in a wheelchair, on the tarmac of the Concrete Airport.\u00a0 She sat so elegantly, and I wondered why she was wheelchair-bound. She became my first character and the Concrete Airport became my setting.\u00a0 Adding these elements to my theme of lies, I could begin developing a story.<\/p>\n<p>I write what I know and that can be experiences, places, or memories, but to make a story authentic I research specifics.\u00a0 In the case of\u00a0<em>Color of Lies<\/em>, I passed three consecutive years at the annual Concrete Fly-In, observing the pilots, the planes, and those that participated.\u00a0 I interviewed pilots in the Civil Air Patrol and researched Women pilots in World War II.\u00a0 Living in Skagit Valley allowed me to hike Sauk Mountain and visit local vineyards and the old Northern State Hospital.\u00a0\u00a0 If I am successful, the reader learns without learning, feels what I feel, and the setting and characters seem real.<\/p>\n<h2>Bookclub Questions<\/h2>\n<p>Questions created just for you and your groups can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/newregardmedia.com\/abbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Reading-Club-Questions_colorOfLies.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2013<br \/>\nBook Two of Generation of Secrets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":790,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","book-authors":[35],"book-series":[37],"book-tags":[54,40,39,34,38],"class_list":["post-693","books","type-books","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","book-authors-abbe-rolnick","book-series-generation-of-secrets","book-tags-all-books","book-tags-culture","book-tags-environmental-conflict","book-tags-travel","book-tags-world-war-ii","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newregardmedia.com\/abbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newregardmedia.com\/abbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newregardmedia.com\/abbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/books"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newregardmedia.com\/abbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newregardmedia.com\/abbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newregardmedia.com\/abbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"book-authors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newregardmedia.com\/abbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book-authors?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"book-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newregardmedia.com\/abbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book-series?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"book-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newregardmedia.com\/abbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book-tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}