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    Taken by Surprise: A Novel
    Taken for Granted: A Novel
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    Caroline Spencer Novels Series

    By Leslyn Amthor Spinelli

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    About this series

    Caroline and David Spencer believe they are prepared for the changes they’ve decided to make: their move from the suburbs to the city. Caroline’s new job as an assistant federal prosecutor. David’s more prominent role in child-care and his new business venture. Lily’s new school. The twins’ graduation to pull-ups and big-kid beds.

    But they aren’t prepared for the unthinkable.

    When a freak accident turns the Spencers’ world upside down, Caroline must rely on a cadre of helpmates—her mother-in-law, her best friend, and a tenacious private investigator—who each bring complications to the mix. How will Caroline deal with her anger, grief, and loss of control? How will the family weather the storm?

    In the sequel to “Taken for Granted,” Leslyn Amthor Spinelli takes us back to Madison, Wisconsin, and the often-chaotic Spencer household, where most anything can happen.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLeslyn Amthor Spinelli
    Release dateAug 8, 2013
    Taken by Surprise: A Novel
    Taken for Granted: A Novel

    Titles in the series (2)

    • Taken for Granted: A Novel
      Taken for Granted: A Novel

      Taken for Granted: A Novel

      Leslyn Amthor Spinelli
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      When former prosecutor Caroline Spencer answers a middle-of-the-night call for help from her friend Kate Daniels—a prominent medical researcher—she has no idea the toll it will take. Her seven-year-old daughter, her marriage, her professional relationships, and her sometimes-precarious emotional health are all jeopardized. How is Kate able to explain her presence at the apartment of a dead graduate student? What connects this career-driven woman to a ruthless drug dealer? Why does Caroline have trouble recognizing the friend she’s known for half her life? As she struggles to answer these questions and discovers the person Kate has become, Caroline is forced to examine her own life and make some painful choices. Set in Madison, Wisconsin, amid the backdrop of the federal criminal justice system, Taken for Granted is page-turning psychological fiction.

      When former prosecutor Caroline Spencer answers a middle-of-the-night call for help from her friend Kate Daniels—a prominent medical researcher—she has no idea the toll it will take. Her seven-year-old daughter, her marriage, her professional relationships, and her sometimes-precarious emotional health are all jeopardized. How is Kate able to explain her presence at the apartment of a dead graduate student? What connects this career-driven woman to a ruthless drug dealer? Why does Caroline have trouble recognizing the friend she’s known for half her life? As she struggles to answer these questions and discovers the person Kate has become, Caroline is forced to examine her own life and make some painful choices. Set in Madison, Wisconsin, amid the backdrop of the federal criminal justice system, Taken for Granted is page-turning psychological fiction.

    • Taken by Surprise: A Novel
      Taken by Surprise: A Novel

      Taken by Surprise: A Novel

      Leslyn Amthor Spinelli
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      Caroline and David Spencer believe they are prepared for the changes they’ve decided to make: their move from the suburbs to the city. Caroline’s new job as an assistant federal prosecutor. David’s more prominent role in child-care and his new business venture. Lily’s new school. The twins’ graduation to pull-ups and big-kid beds. But they aren’t prepared for the unthinkable. When a freak accident turns the Spencers’ world upside down, Caroline must rely on a cadre of helpmates—her mother-in-law, her best friend, and a tenacious private investigator—who each bring complications to the mix. How will Caroline deal with her anger, grief, and loss of control? How will the family weather the storm? In the sequel to “Taken for Granted,” Leslyn Amthor Spinelli takes us back to Madison, Wisconsin, and the often-chaotic Spencer household, where most anything can happen.

      Caroline and David Spencer believe they are prepared for the changes they’ve decided to make: their move from the suburbs to the city. Caroline’s new job as an assistant federal prosecutor. David’s more prominent role in child-care and his new business venture. Lily’s new school. The twins’ graduation to pull-ups and big-kid beds. But they aren’t prepared for the unthinkable. When a freak accident turns the Spencers’ world upside down, Caroline must rely on a cadre of helpmates—her mother-in-law, her best friend, and a tenacious private investigator—who each bring complications to the mix. How will Caroline deal with her anger, grief, and loss of control? How will the family weather the storm? In the sequel to “Taken for Granted,” Leslyn Amthor Spinelli takes us back to Madison, Wisconsin, and the often-chaotic Spencer household, where most anything can happen.

    Author

    Leslyn Amthor Spinelli

    Leslyn Amthor Spinelli—writer, editor, and publisher of two childhood newspapers—put creative writing on the back burner when it came time to choose a “real” career. Her interest in the field of criminal justice took her on quite a journey. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in psychology, but her most fascinating educational experiences occurred in the workplace. Leslyn was employed by the Federal Bureau of Prisons as a case manager at a halfway house in Kansas City, at the prison camp in Leavenworth, and at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago. Later she was hired as a probation officer for the U.S. District Court in Madison, where she conducted in-depth investigations into the backgrounds of criminal defendants. Throughout the years, Leslyn's clientele included mobsters, gangsters, drug dealers, meth cookers, tax evaders, bank robbers and embezzlers. Many were addicted—to drugs, alcohol, gambling or spending. The fictional characters and plot lines in her Caroline Spencer novels, (Taken for Granted, Taken by Surprise, Taken for a Fool, and Taking My Chances), are influenced, in part, by the people and situations Leslyn has encountered over the years. She also draws on her more personal experiences with infertility, adoption, and panic attacks. Leslyn and her husband live in the Minneapolis area and enjoy spending winters in San Diego. They have two grown children.

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