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Kook what you wonderful readers have done for Hunting the Devil. Thanks so much for purchasing it. The eBook will be FREE from April 7th – July 15th to commemorate the hundred days of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. For buy links, go to: https://suanneschaferauthor.com/hunting-the-devil/

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Look what my loyal readers have done for Hunting the Devil! This tough-to-read book about genocide has broken to #1 in African Historical Fiction. MILLIONS OF THANKS to those of you buying the book. For purchase links, go here: https://suanneschaferauthor.com/hunting-the-devil/

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BOOK REVIEW: #VirtuousWomen by #AnnGoltz. A fascinating look at the clash between fundamental Christianity and the modern world.

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BOOK REVIEW: Virtuous Women by Ann Goltz

Virtuous Women is a complex novel of faith in a changing world. Hope Wagner is being raised in a fundamentally religious family. Her mother dies giving birth to her eleventh child, but the father refuses to seek medical attention, feeling both that physicians are shysters and that the life or death of his beloved wife is the will of God. Hope, at fifteen, assumes the role of mother to her ten…

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Thanks everyone for making Hunting the Devil #1 in Historical African Fiction. I’d appreciate any reviews you care to post. And if those folks who reviewed the old edition could repost under the new edition, I’d love that as well. Amazon cannot (will not?) transfer the ratings. 

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ICYMI BOOK REVIEW: #TheTrialsOfApolloSeries by #RickRiordan. A rollicking entertaining blend of pop culture and Greek and Roman myths.

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BOOK REVIEW: #Extinction by #DouglasPreston. A wonderful thriller and cautionary tale about man playing god. 

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BOOK REVIEW: Extinction by Douglas Preston

I’ll be upfront and say I’m a long-time fan of Michael Crichton and the Jurassic Park series of books and movies. If you enjoy that sort of sci-fi/thriller, Extinction is the book for you. I read it in its entirety in one night. I simply couldn’t put it down. Erebus Resort, a safari-type resort populated with prehistoric animals recreated via genetic manipulation, is set in the Colorado…

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ICYMI BOOK REVIEW: #AmongSchoolchildren by #TracyKidder. Lessons to be learned about America’s eduction of our children as our kids’ learning levels tumble after the Pandemic.

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Many thanks to all you who have purchased Hunting the Devil and made it nearly a best seller. If you could possibly find the time to give a word or two of a review, I would appreciate it. As Amazon won’t transfer the reviews from the first edition to the second, I would also appreciate it if those of you who reviewed the first edition would repost your reviews on the second. I am very proud that the book has an overall 5.0 rating. Thanks again for your support. 

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Available now globally in eBook! Available April 7th in Paperback!

The eBook will be FREE from April 7th – July 15th to commemorate the hundred days of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. #NeverForget

For buy links, go to: https://suanneschaferauthor.com/hunting-the-devil/

“There’s plenty of sharp, suspenseful action to savor here in this impressively poignant, hauntingly realistic, and searingly moving tale. Schafer intensively explores themes of racism, violence, war, and human welfare. Vivid, boldly written, life-affirming historical fiction drawn from the horrors of the Rwandan genocide crisis.” —Kirkus Reviews

In response to the worldwide epidemic of genocides and to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide, Suanne Schafer has issued a second edition of Hunting the Devil, revised and with a new Author’s Note. The electronic edition will be free from April 7 through July 15, 2024, the hundred days the 1994 genocide lasted.

When biracial physician Jessica Hemings volunteers for a medical mission in Rwanda, she becomes entrapped in the maelstrom of Rwandan politics and the enmity between Hutu and Tutsi. Her US passport doesn’t afford the security she’d hoped for as her Tutsi-like features plunge her into horrors of the Rwandan Genocide. Dr. Cyprien Gatera, Jess’s superior and a Hutu militant, commandeers her clinic, forces her to treat his wounded, and then slaughters her patients and her adopted sons. She escapes and finds refuge at Benaco refugee camp in Tanzania.

There, beset by grief, hatred, and PTSD, Jess vows revenge. With the help of Michel Fournier, a French lawyer-turned-war-correspondent, and Dr. Tom Powell, her ex-lover, she searches for Gatera who has fled Rwanda to escape post-genocide reprisals. When an unknown informant passes information to Jess about her nemesis, she returns to Rwanda, despite warnings from the Belgian Secret Service that Gatera plans to assassinate her. In their final showdown, Jess must decide if revenge is best served cold or not at all.

Part medical procedural, part global political thriller, part vigilante novel, and part fractured romance, Hunting the Devil moves from the dusty washboard roads of Rwanda to an inner-city hospital in America to the Natural History Museum of Belgium to the halls of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania as it deftly traces one woman’s journey toward justice.

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ICYMI BOOK REVIEW: #RiftedHearts by #MAGuglielmo. A shapeshifter M/M romance with shifters beyond anything you’ve ever read. 

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BOOK REVIEW: The #TresNavarreMysterySeries by #RickRiordan. A fun PI series set in San Antonio which captures the South Texas milieu perfectly.

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BOOK REVIEW: The Tres Navarre Mystery series by Rick Riordan

Having read most of Rick Riordan’s young adult series, I decided to switch to his adult mystery series which I started eons ago and enjoyed but somehow never finished. The Tres Navarre series includes seven books, Big Red Tequila, The Widower’s Two Step, The Last King of Texas, The Devil Went Down to Austin, Southtown, Mission Road, and Rebel Island.  Riordan used to live in San Antonio, and he…

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ICYMI BOOK REVIEW: #TheLionSeeker by #KennethBonert. A Jewish family saga that will haunt you. 

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Dinner at our house (made by my daughter-in-law): Mexican meatball soup with meatballs with rice in side, zucchini, yellow potatoes, carrots, and lots of delish Mexican spiciness.

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MILLIONS OF THANKS to those of you buying Hunting the Devil. This tough-to-read book about genocide has broken the top 100 on Amazon. For purchase links, go here: https://suanneschaferauthor.com/hunting-the-devil/