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Danielle Girard


Suspense author, Danielle Girard

About Me

The Rookie Club
COMING JUNE 6

Fifteen years ago in a San Francisco bar, the Rookie Club was founded--a tight-knit band of female cops, each struggling for respect from their male peers. Jamie Vail was one of them. So was Natasha Devlin, the woman Jamie caught in bed with her husband.

When Natasha Devlin is murdered, Jamie wants nothing to do with the investigation. A seasoned inspector in the Sex Crimes Department, shes facing her own terrifying case--female officers brutalized by a serial rapist who leaves no clues to his identity. Members of the Rookie Club are under attack and a sick game turns into a deadly vendetta. When the primary suspect holds the key to Devlin's murder, Jamie must confront her past and hunt a killer who could be one of their own.

Jamie is trapped between two brutal cases and time is running out before she becomes the killer's ultimate prize.

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About the Author:

It started on a winter night in 1977. Lying in pink flannel sheets, Danielle pulled herself into a ball, curls falling across her face as she squeezed her eyes against the dark. Every noise reverberated in her brain and sent her pulse drumming. Heart pounding, she squinted into the dark. A scream stopped cold in her throat when she saw him.
He stood almost as tall as the door. A dark hood covered his face, allowing her to only make out the shadows of his deep-set eye sockets. Long sleeves draped past his hands, hiding what she was sure were his long, sharp claws. The metal bed dug into her spine as she clenched the covers in damp fists. He stepped forward. A tiny whimper escaped her lips where she had tried to scream. She forced herself to look , her eyes slowly adjusting to the darkness. He melted into a robe hanging on the back of her closet door--his head the hood of her green terrycloth bathrobe, his eyes nothing more than shadows
Wiping her eyes, she turned on the porcelain fairy lamp that sat on her bedside table. The room was cast in a pale amber glow. There was no man.
Danielle went back to sleep, but for many nights afterwards, she saw that man return. And others.
Now grown, Danielle left that bedroom and traveled across the country but the man in the dark never quite left her alone. Finally, Danielle realized that man was her calling. Now, she spends her days (rather than her nights) in an office where she stares at the blinking cursor, dreaming of that man and others far creepier.

My Interests


Never one to sit still for long, when I'm not writing, I love to read, run, paint, shoot, play tennis, bike, ski and chase after my "little people."

Music:

Now: Ryaan Adams, especially the new one: Cold Roses; Hit & Run Bluegrass; Jack Johnson; Nora Jones; Ry Cooder; Lyle Lovett; Peter Case; Coldplay; Tim O'Brien; Hem; Neko Case; Clapton; Richard Buckner; Whiskeytown; Wilco; Sherl Crow; Cowboy Junkies; Buena Vista Social Club; Beck; The White Stripes; Some Hip Hop: People Under the Stairs, Jurassic 5; Chaos; Black Eyed Peas; Outkast...


Then: Stones; The Who; Blues Traveler; Sound Garden; Guns N Roses; Cream; REM; Nirvana; Atlantis Morisette; 10,000 Maniacs; Pearl Jam; Pink Floyd; Tori Amos; Elton John; Sarah Maclachlan; Red Hot Chili Peppers; Sting; Police; Beatles; Led Zeplin; Phish; U2; The Clash; Elvis Costello; Depeche Mode; INXS; Tom Petty; Green Day; Stone Temple Pilots; Smashing Pumpkins; Dave Matthews.

Movies:


It's almost always whatever I've just seen: Monster; Walk the Line; Brokeback Mountain; Mystic River; also ones that catch you by surprise like Sixth Sense; Memento...

Television:


I'm a huge CSI Fan. Las Vegas only; Law & Order SVU; Sex & the City; Veronica Mars...

Books:

Okay, this could take me forever.

CURRENTLY READING: Ruin Creek by David Payne, Everything is Illuminated

ON MY BEDSIDE TABLE: Lincoln Lawyer; Lovely Bones; Reading Lolita in Tehran; A People History of the United States; Angle of Repose; The Alchemist; Gone by Lisa Gardner; Harry Potter; Their Eyes Were Watching God; Mary, Mary by James Patterson....It's a big bedside table

RECENT READS AND FAVORITES: Anything by Lee Child, Michael Connelly, John Connolly or Lisa Gardner. Middlesex; Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close; Life of Pi; Spending by Mary Gordon; Secret Life of Bees; Lolita; Blnik; The Color of Water; The Mermaid Chair; The Other Boleyn Girl; Abide by Me by Elizabeth Strout; Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time; anything by Augusten Burroughs, Tobias Wolff, Jodi Piccoult, Ann Patchett.....

Heroes:


It's got to be the women: Eleanor Roosevelt; Rosa Parks; Maya Angelou; Tillie Olsen; Eve Ensler; everyone's mother...

My Blog

An invitation to book clubs and reading groups....

I have a confession. It's ugly, I've buried it deep, but here it is: I detest book signings. Some authors are wonderful at sitting at a table in the middle of the bookstore, grinning with the stack of...
Posted by Danielle Girard on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:19:00 PST

Older and wiser...or just older?

  Every time I begin a post, I swear it starts, "I can't believe it's already..." So I'm going to skip that part and say it's clearly been WAY too long since I've paid a visit to tell you what I'...
Posted by Danielle Girard on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:53:00 PST

The Power of Disney....

The Power of Disney.... I've just come from spending a week at Disneyland and there is nothing quite like the Magical Kingdom to epitomize the power of fantasy. Of my two children, one did NOT wa...
Posted by Danielle Girard on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:25:00 PST

Today's the day...

The Rookie Club releases today....There's something bittersweet about the day a book hits the stores, probably like letting your children go off to college.  The idea that you have done everythin...
Posted by Danielle Girard on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 12:17:00 PST

PHOTO CONTEST...to start June 6!! $$ prizes!

Photo Contest Ive seen all sorts of amazing photo contests here on myspace, so I thought wed do one here.  Itll start June 6th (when The Rookie Club is available) and run until July 6th.  Th...
Posted by Danielle Girard on Sat, 20 May 2006 07:38:00 PST

Publishing your writing....

Ive been getting great questions about publishing and am happy to answer whichever ones I can, so email them to me and Ill post again.  Heres the main one: Q. How do you publish something?A. Once...
Posted by Danielle Girard on Sat, 20 May 2006 07:33:00 PST

Books...what do you love??

Okay, you guys KNOW what I love.  Now, I want to hear from you!  Who are your favs? (My answers are below) Favorite "beach" read? Favorite "thinking" read? Most emotional read? Funniest rea...
Posted by Danielle Girard on Thu, 11 May 2006 11:17:00 PST

A FREE BOOK....EVERY DAY....

This place is definitely crazy!!  Thank you for all the comments and emails.  Wow.  Don't miss out to win a free copy of The Rookie Club before it's released!!  Go to www.dan...
Posted by Danielle Girard on Wed, 03 May 2006 01:28:00 PST

The Birth of a Book....

  The Birth of a Book.... I'm new in here, so it seems like the first blog out to be about me...So here goes.  I'm the author of 4 suspense novels: Savage Art, Ruthless Game, Chasing...
Posted by Danielle Girard on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 02:38:00 PST