"I finished Deja Vu and wrote you at once to praise another fine book.  As you did with Quenchless Fire, you recreated the bayou region of Southern Louisiana marvelously well.  The effects of a hurricane and its slow dissemination are powerfully done.  Also, the very fine parallel of Louise's teaching "honor" with its importance in the conclusion add depth to this excellent plot."
--William B. Hunter (former reviewer for The Houston Chronicle)

"In addition to delightful descriptions of the furnishings, décor, and cuisine, the reader is also treated to a ghost story or two and a sure-fire recipe for camp coffee.  It's almost as much fun as the chili incident in Quenchless Fire.  Also, Michael O'Neal who taught you about Ireland now teaches you about Louisiana through the Antelogues, the author's clever device for providing the reader factual information about her settings."
--Reviewer Peggy Pugh, Lake Charles, LA

In Quenchless Fire Lois Armes Lawrence and Virginia H. Oliver, writing as Virginia Lee, have done it again! This Aunt Louise mystery is better than ever. Set in modern day Ireland and skillfully mingling past and present, it provides a serving of authentic historic facts garnished with Irish wit, humor, and freshness guaranteed to entice the reader. “Aunt Louise” is Dr. Sammie Louise Larkin, Professor of Rhetoric and Renaissance Literature, a witty, intelligent, adventuresome woman who uses all her training and skills --plus just a touch of “second sight”-- to find the truth behind a murder and the newly found pages of a lost national treasure, missing sections of Spenser’s Faerie Queene.  Dr. Larkin first appeared in the pages of Déjà Vu where she was invited by her niece Nola O’Neal to a “Mystery Weekend” at an inn in Louisiana.  There fiction quickly turned into fact and “Aunt Louise” quickly found herself involved in untangling the events surrounding an old murder.  “We meant for the heroine to be Nola,” the authors laugh, “but Aunt Louise just kept taking over!”  Direct and uncompromising, she is the very model of an active retired teacher and should inspire many seasoned citizens to kick over the old rocking chair and surf the Internet with the best of them.
--Anna Sommerfield for Wye Times

Virginia Lee’s Quenchless Fire: A Darke Intrigue is an exciting page turner of a mystery, with plenty of action, a few ghostly apparitions, some Irish local color, a sprinkling of English literary references, a rational lady sleuth in the tradition of Miss Marple, and enough cliff-hangers to keep any reader up all night.  This is a not-to-be-missed fun read for Irish history buffs and mystery readers alike. If you have a fondness for Agatha Christie’s characters, you’ll fall in love with Aunt Louise.
--Honora Finkelstein author of Magicians: A Novel of Transformation and Co-Creation