Welcome to Rene Natan's Webpage
Rene Natan is a pen name for Irene Gargantini, a professor of computer science who,
close to her retirement, decided to revert to the
passion of her youth: story-telling. She took six e-courses on fiction writing from
Mariska Stamenkovic and then jumped into writing with the enthusiasm of
a novice,
often re-creating situations or events she experienced in her life.
Together with about a hundred scientific or technical papers and three awards in science
(25 years of excellence in research, NSERC, Recognition to Contributing to Canadian Research,
and Pioneer of Computing in Canada, IBM Centre for Advanced Studies, Toronto),
she has six novels and four short stories to her credit.
Her genres vary from
romantic suspense to thrillers with romantic interludes. Here are a few snapshots of her tales.
Novels —
The Collage, a 2004-best seller of Creative Guy Publishing, is a story of
a young heiress caught in a web of lies and violence; Operation Woman in Black, a release
dedicated to all parents of disabled children, portraits the struggle
of a man who has to share every minute of his day between police work
and the parenting of a handicapped teenage daughter.
Cross of
Sapphires describes the inner turmoil of a man of the law
in love with a fugitive accused of a horrendous crime.
Mountains of Dawn brings to life the
distress of an orphan with no roots and no place to go. The protagonist of The Jungfrau Watch
(a political thriller) has the tormented soul of a man whose political belief has been destroyed, and whose motherland, Russia, has been precipitated into chaos while his
life floats in an absolute vacuum.
The Red Manor
is about family bonds that stretch over two continents and where
love overcomes both greed and cleverly engineered criminal plots.
Short Stories — In "Killing on Mount Yula" a hearing-impaired teenager struggles
as he tries to escape his pursuers on skis. In "A Pair of Wings for
Christmas" (a celebration of the centennial of the first powered flight
) science is embedded in a framework of fantasy. In "The Black Notebook
", ghost detective Denys Bellami solves a complicated case with the
help of a thirteen-year-old girl. In the true story "He Was One Of Eight," eight young orphans
leave their native Holland to settle in Canada.
Rene Natan makes her home in Strathroy, Ontario.
Contact her at renenatan@aol.com
New release: The Red Manor
The Red Manor
Lucio Maria de’ Vigentini, Lord of the Red Manor, is loaded with years,
money, memories and regrets—the ancient curse cast upon his family
weighing heavily on his soul. He lost his son, Rick, at sea and his
wife left him, taking Rick’s twin, Chris Sandcroft, to Canada. Lucio,
lonely and ailing, is tortured by the prophesy predicting the
extinction of the Red Manor and its occupants at the turn of the
millennium. When Chris asks him to live with him, he accepts,
in the hope of escaping the curse. Despite Chris’ loving care,
sudden immersion in a different culture and a modern household
taxes Lucio’s spirit. The unearthing of two precious cups, once
Red Manor possessions, brings much excitement to the blue-collar
city of Harrisville, Ontario, and with it, crime. Then the malefic
prophesy of the Red Manor seems to take its inexorable course,
as shadows of the past occur with menacing consistency.
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The Jungfrau Watch
The collapse of the Soviet Union leaves two prominent members of the Red Brigades without funds, without a job and without a cause. They both find asylum, under false identities, in Canada. One continues in his criminal activities, the other wants to make a clear break from his past. Fifteen years later, in 2003, their paths cross again. Meanwhile industrial espionage plagues several Ontarian companies, prompting the intervention of Invicta, a prestigious investigating agency. When the prototype of the Jungfrau Watch—a masterpiece of technology and art—is stolen, Alesh Sinkovich is hired to establish a fake laboratory based on the production of highly efficient fuel cells. Soon after a project is stolen from the lab, providing Alesh Sinkovich and Invicta with the much wanted breakthrough. But the Red Brigades aren’t dead. Their means of corrupting and luring, coupled with their expertise in kidnapping and killing, infiltrate the peaceful town of Vermeil. Alesh Sinkovich will have no choice but adopting drastic measures to save what’s very dear to him.
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The Collage
A cleverly masterminded plot entraps young heiress Allison Summer in a web of deceit and violence--slowly but without mercy. Even if surrounded by a multitude of people, beautiful Allison is alone in her struggle, not knowing whom to trust: not her father, not her husband, not even the handsome man who pledges his love to her... A nosy reporter makes Allison’s life difficult, a mysterious fire destroys her home, a killer seemingly coming from nowhere knocks on her door, while an accusation of murder hangs over her head. Overcome by guilt and disheartened by the loss of loved ones, Allison suffers in solitude, hoping for better times. But when the life of the man she loves becomes at stake, Allison musters her strength and takes control of her destiny. And she will not stop until the innocent is free and the guilty secured behind bars.
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Cross of Sapphires
Chief Steve Carlton seems to have successfully carried out his mission--he has finally managed to take fugitive Livia White aboard his aircraft. Shortly after take off, however, Steve’s plane crashes in the wildest region of Venezuela. Severely injured, he is nursed back to health by an attentive and caring Livia. For five long weeks Steve tries to picture her as a killer. To no avail. Her limpid blue eyes, her rare but genuine smile, and her kindness capture his heart. But when Steve returns to New Brunswick he discovers that the evidence accumulated against Livia is staggering. The law being his one and only creed, Steve battles his feelings as the life of accused Livia White unfolds before his eyes. Follow Steve in his struggle and his adventures, where the stakes are high and the rewards none too sure.
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Mountains of Dawn
“Pack and leave” are the words that Tanya Caldwell, orphaned at the age of six, heard many times over as she wandered from foster home to foster home. She hears them again from Malcolm Clark, the head of the prestigious agency ‘Invicta’, after she narrowly escapes two murder attempts. On Malcolm’s advice, she retires to the hills of the Riviera. The Mediterranean shores offer endless inspiration to Tanya the artist. Here she meets Kevin Matwin, a publisher of arts books, and a friend of his, Luigi Amedeo, Count of Monteturro. The count’s dignified manners and his daredevil enterprises hide more than one secret . . . Accidents similar to Tanya’s also occur to Brian, Malcolm’s brother. Tanya’s and Brian’s misfortunes have a common denominator in a . . .
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Operation Woman
in Black
Nothing and nobody seem to penetrate the criminal ring that plagues the town of Varlee, Ontario. When Varlee’s Chief of Police, frustrated by five years of unsuccessful attempts, resigns, Conrad Miguel Tormez becomes in charge of the investigation. Aware of the po-tential that Pappa-Pappa, a new speech emulation system, offers, Conrad Tormez engi-neers a daring operation: he’ll replace the Woman in Black, a recently deceased member of the criminal ring, with Savina Thompson, an ex-agent and amateur performer. But Operation Woman in Black isn’t the only challenge Conrad Tormez has to face. For the last year he has been searching for Isabel, his teenage mentally impaired daughter. Then one day he finds her—living in a log cabin in the Rocky Mountains, together with a baby and a wolf. A loving father yet a cunning detective, Conrad Tormez has to balance every minute of the day between parenting and police work. As Operation Woman in Black progresses Conrad Tormez realizes that the master-mind of the criminal ring is a formidable opponent—his deadly tentacles can reach any-body, anywhere, anytime.
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Other Novels
The Jungfrau Watch, The Collage, Operation
Woman in Black, Cross of Sapphires and Mountains of Dawn
Killing on Mount Yula, A Pair of Wings for Christmas
and He
Was
One of Eight
Hearing impaired Chris Valoir has a clever plan to escape his pursuers: crossing the Alps on skis. But midway through his journey a blizzard forces him to stop at Yula Station, full of stranded people. Frightened and alone, 15-year old Chris hopes for the storm to end, and daylight to come. But when they do, his pursuers close in.
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A Pair of Wings for Christmas is a small tribute to the celebration of the first powered flight. It blends fantasy and science, as one angel explains to a would-be angel what he has to do to gain a pair of wings before Christmas.
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He
Was One Of Eight is a story about immigrants.
They were eight, they were orphan, they were four boys and four
girls...and together they left Holland to reach that immense land
called Canada.
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