Archive for September, 2011

Book Review: Night Corridor by Joan Hall Hovey

Night Corridor Joan Hall Hovey Books We Love Publishing Partners, March 2011 ISBN 9781926965567 Trade Paperback Sometimes the world can be a scary place. Who knows what evil may lurk around the next corner…or just outside your door? Enter the Night Corridor and follow the lives of some of the people in a small town [...]

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September 10, 2011  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  One Comment

Show Me The Fun

Ron Benrey is a prolific writer who has coauthored nine romantic suspense novels with his wife Janet: The Pippa Hunnechurch Mysteries, The Royal Tunbridge Wells Mysteries, and the Glory, North Carolina, Mysteries. All three series are available as Kindle, Nook, and Apple Books. Ron has also written ten non-fiction books. His most recent, published this [...]

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September 9, 2011   Posted in: Guest Blogs  2 Comments

Book Review: Little Elvises by Tim Hallinan

Little Elvises Tim Hallinan Hallinan Consulting, LLC, August 2011 E-Book I became a fan when the first Junior Bender e-book Crashed, came up on Amazon. If you like your suspense tightly constructed, the dialogue and characters hilarious, then this is a must read new series. Junior has once again caught the attention of the LAPD, [...]

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September 8, 2011  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Guest Reviews  No Comments

Book Review: White Tombs by Christopher Valen

White Tombs Christopher Valen Conquill Press, 2008 ISBN 0980001722 Trade Paperback Meet Detective John Santana of the St. Paul Police Department.  He is not a man you will soon forget.   Santana is a native of Colombia.  He left under a cloud and to this day fears that assassins will eventually find him even as far [...]

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September 7, 2011  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

A Contest Winner and Book Review: Hard Spell by Justin Gustainis

Congratulations to Terry Parrish, winner of a signed copy of Under the Dog Star by Sandra Parshall! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hard Spell Justin Gustainis Angry Robot Books, July 2011 ISBN 9780857661159 Mass Market Paperback Detective Stan Markowski and his partner, Karl Renfer, have been called out to a crime scene but it’s not your run of the [...]

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September 6, 2011  Tags: , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Contests/Giveaways, Full Reviews, My Reviews  No Comments

Building A 3-D Character Through Research

Sally Carpenter is a native Hoosier now living in Southern California. She has a master’s degree in theater from Indiana State University. While in school two of her plays were finalists in the American College Theater Festival One-Act Playwrighting Competition and one play also earned a college creative writing award. The plays received staged readings [...]

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September 4, 2011   Posted in: Guest Blogs  17 Comments

Book Review: Germline by T.C. McCarthy

Germline (Subterrene War Trilogy #1) T.C. McCarthy Orbit Books, August 2011 ISBN 978-0-316-12818-6 Mass Market Paperback In the not so distant future, war is being fought over the resources that fuel the world’s need to supply a population’s ever growing needs. Nothing new about that. But too many young men have died in these never [...]

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September 3, 2011  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  2 Comments

Whose story is it?

Sandra Parshall was born and raised in South Carolina, and the first job that paid her for writing was that of weekend obituary columnist on her hometown paper, “The Spartanburg Herald”. Eventually she became a reporter — after putting together a feature on her own initiative and giving it to the editor to prove she [...]

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September 2, 2011   Posted in: Guest Blogs  19 Comments

Book Review: Dumpster Dying by Lesley A. Diehl

Dumpster Dying Lesley A. Diehl Oak Tree Press/Dark Oak Mysteries, 2011 ISBN 978-1-51009-006-3 Trade Paperback Emily Rhodes is, as Detective Stanton Lewis likes to think, “Not much bigger than one of Santa’s Elves.” She’s petite and blond, cute as a button, on the young side of fifty and on the wrong side of luck when [...]

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September 1, 2011  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Guest Reviews  No Comments