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BOOK SPOTLIGHT: THE RUNE STONE

I‘m delighted to host the book spotlight for The Rune Stone (Dr DuLac series Book #3) by Julia Ibbotson in The Coffee Pot Book Club Blog Tour being held between March 17th – 21st, 2025. The Rune Stone is a Historical Romance (timeslip mystery) published by Archbury Books on December 8^th, 2021 (294 pages (ebook) / 376 pages (paperback)

Below are highlights of The Rune Stone and Julia Ibbotson’s author bio.

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HIGHLIGHTS: THE RUNE STONE

The Rune Stone
(Dr DuLac series Book #3)
by Julia Ibbotson

Blurb:

A haunting time-slip mystery of runes and romance

When Dr Viv DuLac, medievalist and academic, finds a mysterious runic inscription on a Rune Stone in the graveyard of her husband’s village church, she unwittingly sets off a chain of circumstances that disturb their quiet lives in ways she never expected.

She, once again, feels the echoes of the past resonate through time and into the present. Can she unlock the secrets of the runes in the life of the 6^th century Lady Vivianne and in Viv’s own life?

Again, lives of the past and present intertwine alarmingly as Viv desperately tries to save them both, without changing the course of history.

For fans of Barbara Erskine, Pamela Hartshorne, Susanna Kearsley, Christina Courtenay.

Praise for Julia Ibbotson:

For A Shape on the Air: “In the best Barbara Erskine tradition …I would highly recommend this novel” –Historical Novel Society

For the series: “Julia does an incredible job of setting up the idea of time-shift so that it’s believable and makes sense” – book tour reviewer

For The Rune Stone: “Beautifully written”, “absorbing and captivating”, “fully immersive”, “wonderfully written characters”, “a skilled story teller” – Amazon reviewers

“Dr Ibbotson has created living, breathing characters that will remain in the reader’s mind long after the book is read … The characters are brought to life beautifully with perfect economy of description … fabulous!” – Melissa Morgan

“A rich and evocative time-slip novel that beautifully and satisfyingly concludes this superb trilogy. The story is woven seamlessly and skilfully between the past and the present and the reader is drawn deeply into both worlds.  Her portrayal of the 6^th century and its way of life are authoritative, vivid and memorable.” – Kate Sullivan

Buy Link:

Universal Buy Link:  https://myBook.to/TRS

This title is available to read on #KindleUnlimited.

AUTHOR BIO: JULIA IBBOTSON

Julia Ibbotson is fascinated by the medieval world and the concept of time. She is the author of historical mysteries with a frisson of romance. Her books are evocative of time and place, well-researched and uplifting page-turners. Her current series focuses on early medieval time-slip/dual-time mysteries.

Julia read English at Keele University, England, specialising in medieval language/ literature/ history, and has a PhD in socio-linguistics.

After a turbulent time in Ghana, West Africa, she became a school teacher, then a university academic and researcher. Her break as an author came soon after she joined the RNA’s New Writers’ Scheme in 2015, with a three-book deal from Lume Books for a trilogy (Drumbeats) set in Ghana in the 1960s.

She has published five other books, including A Shape on the Air, an Anglo-Saxon timeslip mystery, and its two sequels The Dragon Tree and The Rune Stone. Her work in progress is a new series of Anglo-Saxon mystery romances, beginning with Daughter of Mercia, where echoes of the past resonate across the centuries.

Julia’s novels will appeal to fans of Barbara Erskine, Pamela Hartshorne, Susanna Kearsley, and Christina Courtenay. Her readers say: ‘Julia’s books captured my imagination’, ‘beautiful story-telling’, ‘evocative and well-paced storylines’, ‘brilliant and fascinating’ and ‘I just couldn’t put it down’.

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