Ginna Leatherbury
Novelist and Award-Winning Author
Four incredible novels — three tightly wound thrillers and a story about the stubbornness of hope.
The Flying Papers
Book Excellence Award Finalist
“An affecting, well-constructed story of a family and a girl holding on to hope.”
Kirkus Reviews
The Flying Papers
A Story Of Family And Hope
Julia Santi’s carefully constructed life in New York City is torpedoed when her ten-year-old niece, Rumi, comes to live with her. Rumi is from rural Mississippi and her only living parent, her father, is missing.
No more fashion boutique on Madison Avenue for Julia. No more carefree evenings with friends, or dates that might culminate in happily ever after. Instead, she trades that life to become a stay-at-home pseudo-parent to a child she has met only once before.
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Rumi’s entry into city life is a dismal failure when she is kicked out of an elite private school on her first day there. Julia is horrified that the Santi name is sullied. Rumi does not see what the fuss is about.
Because Rumi always sees the glass as half full.
Even when her father is accused of human trafficking. Even when he is presumed to be either dead or hiding from the law. Even when the aunt who was supposed to love and protect her blames her for ruining her life.
Then again, Rumi knows something nobody else does.
There is a plan. Her father is coming for her.
And they will be together soon.
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Sparky
An Enthralling Tale Of Crime
Thomas Avant is polished, prominent, and politically ambitious. He is also a psychopath.
Thomas makes money the old-fashioned way—he steals it. Hiding behind his world renowned auction house, he acquires rare treasures and then fences them through a local charity auction. He has to blackmail Sandra, the charity head, for that privilege.
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When Sandra discovers evidence that Thomas has a fictitious identity, that he’s committed atrocious crimes in the persona of his alter ego Dwarf, she puts the evidence on a thumb drive and leaves town.
But not fast enough. Chased into a park by Thomas’s goons, Sandra knows she’s as good as dead. When a friendly dog wanders by, she hides the thumb drive in its bandana. If she can’t take Thomas down, maybe somebody else can.
Vengeance Squared
Can Xavier King Find The Killer?
A posh, Long Island wedding. The groom, gruesomely murdered moments before his bride is to walk down the aisle. By the end of the day, two more bodies are found.
When mistaken trust and loyalty lead to tragic consequences, Detective Xavier King (known as “X”) is left to pick up the pieces of the shattered investigation. Fresh clues lead him to the person who fastidiously planned the groom’s murder. But instead of solving the case, it gets exponentially more complicated.
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Because there is another killer involved. Same victim, same time, same place. Different motive, different means. And equally depraved.
When X learns that both belong to a secret organization founded on the perversion of centuries of religious history, where murder is an art form and members participate in games of one-upmanship in order to gain power, he follows the trail to Europe. What he finds could not have been predicted — but can it be survived?
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Always The Blood
A Mobbed Up Thriller
Sarah—a pregnant, teenaged girl—runs away from NYC and everything she knows. Her destination, a home for unwed mothers in Rochester, NY. Within weeks she loses the baby and her free housing. Determined to make it on her own, she pounds the pavement and finds a job that seems too good to be true.
And it is.
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Sarah’s life becomes inescapably tied to the mob. She not only works for it, she marries it and has a baby suspiciously soon thereafter.
A brutal murder spree eviscerates daydreams of happily ever after. Sarah and her best friend Cassie are the only survivors. They separate for safety reasons, never to see each other again.
A decade later, there is a coordinated hit to take out both women. Sarah is hunted as she sits in the back of a courtesy van on the Long Island Expressway and is executed. She never makes it to the urgent meeting she requested with her high school flame.
The hit on Cassie, who is waking up in the Florida Keys after a one-night stand, fails.
With a bounty on her head and nowhere else to turn, Cassie puts her trust in Deputy James Lager, revealing her true identity.
Lager is a by the book cop. Until now.
Together they must travel from the Florida Keys to NYC without getting killed. The life of an innocent is at stake. A teenager, who has no idea she has blood connections to the mob.
Ginna Leatherbury
Novelist and Award-Winning Author
Book Reviews
Fans of blockbuster thrillers like Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code or the works of James Patterson will appreciate this book’s similar hero and global scope. Leatherbury packs a lot of surprises and action into short, compulsively readable chapters, and by the end, the story has covered a wide range of characters, locations, conspiracies and multiple murders.
From the gruesome scene at the wedding chapel to the heart-stopping end I was totally taken in by this storyline. Vengeance Squared is excellent storytelling, with an intricate plot that takes the reader into the action. Loved, loved, and loved this book! A great way to spend an afternoon at the beach! Excellent work… and one of the best books I have read in years.
This is a consistently-plotted yarn with a firm cop protagonist, plenty of bad guys, and a twisting, turning tale. The story has more than its share of red herrings and evolves into a hunt for an identified perp who has unexpected cult support.
A beautiful country wedding outside New York City turns grisly when the groom, wealthy and well-connected Henry Fullington, falls from the church’s bell tower only moments before the beginning of the ceremony, his body already “torn apart like a rag doll.” A missing best man, a hidden bag of cocaine and a crime scene trampled by panicked guests are all waiting for police officers when they arrive.
I loved the fast-paced plotting of Vengeance Squared and found it hard to put down. Following X and crew through to the finish made for an entertaining read, complete with a villainess that I loved to hate. Leatherbury does a great job of describing characters and settings with precise and engaging language. This dark thriller will keep you guessing until the very end.
Throughout all of the chase sequences, murders, and double crosses in this thriller, Leatherbury shows real skill at building suspense and describing action… She also has created a great villain in mob boss Anthony Calvalentini—a ruthless sociopath who’ll stop at nothing to achieve his goal.