Liz Carlyle
Liz Carlyle (Susan Tatum Woodhouse) attended college on a Scripps Howard writing scholarship and majored in journalism. She spent much of her career working in Human Resources and Labor Relations in the chemical and automotive industries however. She did not begin writing until December 1996 when she was between jobs. She finished the novel within two months and attempted to find a publisher for it. Although that work did not sell, Pocket Books was interested in seeing more of her work. In 1998 they bought two novels from her, publishing the first, My False Heart, in 1999. All of her novels are considered historical romance and they are all loosely linked by characters who are either related or acquainted.
She has been nominated for Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Awards five times, winning in 1999 for My False Heart. She has also been nominated for a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award, and won a Romance Writers of America RITA Award in 2006 for Best Long Historical Romance (The Devil To Pay). Liz Carlyle was a 2010 RITA® finalist in the RITA®: Historical Romance category with her novel Wicked All Day. Several of her books have become USA Today bestsellers.
On the Web
- Wikipedia [1]
Books
- After Midnight - 2007
- Beauty Like The Night - 2000
- Bride By Moonlight, A - 2013
- Bride Wore Pearls, The - 2012
- Bride Wore Scarlet, The - 2011
- Deal With The Devil, A - 2004
- Devil To Pay, the - 2005
- Devil You Know, The - 2003
- Earl's Mistress, The - 2014
- Hunting Season - 2002
- In Love With A Wicked Man - 2013
- Let's Talk About Sex - 2003
- Much Ado About Twelfth Night - 2004
- My False Heart - 1999
- Never Deceive A Duke - 2007
- Never Lie To A Lady - 2007
- Never Romance A Rake - 2008
- No True Gentleman - 2002
- One Little Sin - 2005
- One Touch Of Scandal - 2010
- Tempted All Night - 2009
- Three Little Secrets - 2006
- Two Little Lies - 2005
- Wicked All Day - 2009
- Woman Of Virtue, A - 2001
- Woman Scorned, A - 2000
Anthologies
- Tea for Two - 2002
- Big Guns Out of Uniform - 2003
- The One that Got Away - 2004
- The School for Heiresses - 2006
Series/Related Titles
Books Featuring George Kemble
- My False Heart
- A Woman Of Virtue
- No True Gentleman
- The Devil You Know
- A Deal With The Devil
- The Devil To Pay
- Never Lie To A Lady
- Never Deceive A Duke
- Never Romance A Rake
- Tempted All Night
- The Bride Wore Pearls
Lorimer Family & Clan Cameron
MacLachlan Family & Friends
- The Devil To Pay
- One Little Sin
- Two Little Lies
- Three Little Secrets
- One Touch Of Scandal
- The Bride Wore Scarlet
- The Bride Wore Pearls
- A Bride By Moonlight
- In Love With A Wicked Man
- The Earl's Mistress
Neville Family
One-Two-Three The closest thing to a true series are the One-Two-Three books.
All three novels revolve around the same theme — the redemption of a man through the love of a child. All three heroes were introduced to readers in the same book — The Devil To Pay — and all three plots began with a single precipitating incident—a visit to a fortune teller.
The Rutledge Family
The St. James Society
Zoe and Phaedra
- Tempted All Night - 6/2009 - Phaedra and Tristan
- Wicked All Day - 9/2009 - Zoe and Stuart
Many of Carlyle's books have recurring characters:
- The Devil To Pay - 2005 Develynn and Sidonie. Sidonie is George Kemble's sister. George is a recurring character who is the valet or helpful person in several of the earlier books. He is now the proprietor of a shop in London.
- The Devil You Know - 2004 Bentley and Freddie. Bentley is Cam and Catherine's brother. Freddie is the ward of the Marquis of Rannoch.
- No True Gentleman - 2002 Max and Catherine. Catherine is Cam's sister. Max is investigating a murder at the request of Cecilia.
- A Woman Of Virtue - 2001 David, Lord Delacourt, and Cecilia. David was rumoured to be Jonet's lover. Cecilia and David are involved in a scandal that is resolved by Cole Amherst. They later meet again when both are working at the Nazareth Society.
- A Woman Scorned - 2000 Jonet and Amherst. Cole Amherst starts the Nazareth Society, a charity mission for the poor women of London’s slums.
- Beauty Like The Night - 2000 Cam, Earl of Treyhern, and Helene
- My False Heart - 1999 Elliott, Marquis of Rannoch and Evangeline
Awards
- 2009 RT Reviewers Choice Award Winner - Historical Romantic Gothic, Tempted All Night
- 2006 RITA Award Winner - Long Historical Romance, The Devil To Pay
- 2004 RT Reviewers Choice Award Winner - Romantic Mystery, A Deal With The Devil
- 2004 RT Reviewers Choice Award Winner - Historical Anthology, Much Ado About Twelfth Night
- 2002 All About Romance Reader Award Winner - Best Buried Treasure, No True Gentleman
- 1999 RT Reviewers Choice Award Winner - First Historical Romance, My False Heart
Recognitions
- 2014 Booklist Starred Review, The Earl's Mistress
- 2011 Booklist Starred Review, The Bride Wore Scarlet
- 2010 Booklist Starred Review, One Touch Of Scandal
- 2010 Publishers Weekly Starred Review, One Touch Of Scandal
- 2010 RITA Award Finalist - Historical Romance, Wicked All Day