Danielle Girard
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Suspense author, Danielle Girard"

Female
35 years old
SAN FRANCISCO, California
United States



Last Login:6/14/2008

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    Danielle Girard's Interests
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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...

Groups: Suburban Fiction Book ReviewsMyspace Book ClubThe Readers CircleThe Da Vinci CodeThe Poetry of Love and WarJames PattersonI Heart BooksBounty Hunter from Hell

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     Danielle Girard's Details
Status:Married
Here for:Networking
Hometown:San Francisco
Body type:0' 0"
Zodiac Sign:Scorpio
Children:Proud parent
Education:Post grad
Occupation:Suspense author

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Penguin Putnam
New York,, NY US
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   Danielle Girard's Blurbs
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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Click on a cover to read more...


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.

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Lukenji San





Jun 9 2008 9:20 PM

Ciao Danielle Girard!!! Volevo invitarti a questo appuntamento, spero ti faccia piacere, eventualmente contattami!
Si svolgerà al Gradisca di Perugia:



A presto!!!

Ciaooooo ;)
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May 16 2008 5:46 PM

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May 25 2008 3:12 PM

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May 9 2008 2:32 PM

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May 11 2008 11:50 AM

Happy Mother's Day!
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Mar 16 2008 7:02 PM

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Feb 9 2008 1:45 PM

An early Happy Valentine's Day, Danielle. May every kind of love come your way: romance, intimacy, friendship, family, and fellowship. Liz
Daisy





Feb 9 2008 3:31 PM

Thanks for the add from Daisy Dooley

Thank you for being a friend Danielle!
Tylar Drake~Writer





Feb 10 2008 6:55 AM

Hi Danielle,
Thanks for being a friend. Hope this finds you well.
Best,
Drake
Tim





Feb 10 2008 8:58 AM

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Great to meet you, Danielle !!!

Cheers :)

Tim
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Feb 11 2008 8:58 AM

Thanks for being our MySpace friend, Danielle! Looking forward to reviewing your work soon.


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Feb 16 2008 12:34 PM

Thanks for connection ~
Lately but lovely Happy Valentine's Day! :)
Kiss,
Renaissance Dell'Arte
Dave Diotalevi





Jan 15 2008 4:03 PM

Danielle--congrats on the writing success.

May 2008 bring surprises and joys even you didn't expect.

Dave Diotalevi
author of MIRACLE MYX

Dee





Jan 20 2008 10:04 AM

Have a restful and inspiring Sunday!
Sarah Parr





Dec 29 2007 3:40 PM

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Dec 31 2007 9:18 PM

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Dec 19 2007 3:14 PM

Holiday Cheer

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Dec 20 2007 5:07 PM


Seasons greetings to you and yours from me and mine.
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Dec 21 2007 2:25 PM


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May Your Wildest Holiday Dreams Come True!
--Lisa
Elizabeth Zelvin





Dec 25 2007 1:59 PM

Hi Danielle. Hope you're having a wonderful holiday season. :) Liz
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Dec 10 2007 4:18 AM

Thanks Danielle for the add. Your books are awesome. God bless you continually!
Ann B. Keller





Nov 21 2007 6:01 PM

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BE THANKFUL

Be thankful to the God who created you,
To the Mother who bore you and
The Father who raised you,
To the race that claimed you and
The family that called you its own.

Be thankful for each hopeful sunrise,
Each burning sunset and
For all of the hours in between,
Whose meager passage matters naught
In the final counting of one’s days.

Be thankful for the eagle’s graceful glide
And the mountains that scrape the heavens,
For the crashing seas and still pools
That linger in the mind like
A gentle swirling mist aborning.

Be thankful for the kiss of rain upon your face,
For every sweet breath you take,
For the gentlest touch, for each baby’s cry
That swells the heart to bursting
And begs the stoutest heart to sing.

And in your gladness, open your arms
To the sick and dying,
To the lonely and frail of spirit,
To the poor and downtrodden
And make them your own.

Rejoice in your life and in
The lives of those you love and touch,
Raise your smile and arms to Heaven
And be thankful this day,
This day of Thanksgiving.

For God has given you a chance,
A chance to make a difference.
Go forth and make this world a better place,
And every day, remember to pray,
To love, to sing, and to be thankful.

Written by Ann B. Keller
Thanksgiving, 2007
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Nov 22 2007 8:35 AM

Hi Danielle,

Warm wishes for a happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.

Jeff Sherratt
THE BRIMSTONE MURDERS
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Nov 28 2007 1:46 PM

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Nov 20 2007 5:59 PM

Hi Danielle,
Thanks for adding me to your friends list. I saw in one of your blogs that you are currently in an MFA program. I am wondering (if you care to share) why you decided to go into a writing program given all the success you have already had writing and publishing your work.
-Katherine