Archive for October, 2011
A Very Happy Kittywe’en—and We Have a Winner!
Congratulations to Diana Orgain, winner of Liz Jasper’s Underdead! Trick or Treat
October 31, 2011
Posted in: Contests/Giveaways, Tales of a Bookseller 
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Tired Of Flawed Protagonists
Randy Rawls is a retired US Army officer. After spending twenty years in uniform, he became a civilian employee of the Department of Defense. During those years, he honed his craft as a writer in various leadership and administrative positions. After retiring, he turned his hand to writing fiction. Randy has seven published novels including [...]
October 30, 2011
Posted in: Guest Blogs 9 Comments
Book Review: Dumpster Dying by Lesley A. Diehl
Dumpster Dying Lesley A. Diehl Oak Tree Press/Dark Oak Mysteries, 2011 ISBN 978-1-61009-006-3 Trade Paperback Dumpster Dying by Lesley A. Diehl, is a smartly-paced page turner, with more attractions than a three-ring circus. Ms. Diehl, who must be a juggler in her spare time, keeps many plates spinning in the air, in the form of [...]
October 29, 2011
Tags: cozy, Florida, humor, mystery, Oak Tree Press/Dark Oak Mysteries Posted in: Full Reviews 2 Comments
Halloween Costumes for the Cheap and Lazy
Liz Jasper always enjoyed writing, but in college and graduate school dutifully studied things that would make her “marketable.” Fortunately, she loved her stint as a middle school science teacher (most of the time), her time working as a business analyst and still really enjoys her most recent career switch into financial planning. And yet…while [...]
October 28, 2011
Posted in: Contests/Giveaways, Guest Blogs 38 Comments
Book Review: Passions of the Dead by L.J. Sellers—and a Contest Winner!
Passions of the Dead L.J. Sellers Spellbinder Press, January 2011 ISBN: 978-0-9795182-8-7 Trade Paperback In her latest book in the Detective Jackson series, L.J. Sellers goes beyond the headlines about the economic crisis by showing the human side of that equation, and the myriad unexpected and unforeseeable ripple effects and the desperation stemming from the [...]
October 27, 2011
Tags: mystery, Oregon, police procedural, Spellbinder Press, thriller Posted in: Contests/Giveaways, Full Reviews No Comments
Book Reviews: The Final Reckoning by Sam Bourne, Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane and Reapers by Frederick Ramsay
The Final Reckoning Sam Bourne Harper, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-187574-8 Hardcover Truth and fiction merge in this thriller about survivors of the holocaust taking justice into their own hands, seeking out Nazis and murdering them. Â It comes to light when the last survivor of DIN, the secret group of Jewish resistance fighters (yes, there were some) [...]
October 26, 2011
Tags: Boston, Botswana, game ranger, Harper, Holocaust, missing child, mystery, Nazi crimes, Poisoned Pen Press, police procedural, private investigator, Russian mob, soccer, thriller, William Morrow Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
I Know That Town!
Two-time  EMMY award winning Marcos M. Villatoro is the author of six novels, two collections of poetry and a memoir. His Romilia Chacón crime fiction books have won national acclaim (named a Best Book of 2001 by the Los Angeles Times) and are published in Germany, Japan, Russia and Brazil. Marcos holds the Fletcher Jones [...]
October 25, 2011
Posted in: Guest Blogs 2 Comments
Book Reviews: Cold Vengeance by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child and Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
Cold Vengeance (Special Agent Pendergast) Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child Grand Central Publishing, August 2011 ISBN No. 978-0-446-55498-5 Hardcover Pendergast has discovered that Helen, his wife, was murdered and now he seeks revenge. Judson Esterhazy, Helen’s brother, is equally determined that Pendergast be stopped from investigating Helen’s death and if the only way to stop [...]
October 24, 2011
Tags: adoption, England, FBI, Grand Central Publishing, Little Brown and Company, Louisiana, mystery, New York, private investigator, Scotland, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: A Dog’s Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron
A Dog’s Purpose W. Bruce Cameron Read by George K. Wilson Tantor Audio, 2010 ISBN 978-1-4001-1645-4 Unabridged Audio Book Also available as a Forge trade paperback A puppy plays in the woods with his mom and his siblings but this is not an entirely idyllic scene. The puppy and his family are feral and the [...]
October 22, 2011
Tags: animals, autobiography, Forge, general fiction, humor, reincarnation, Tantor Audio Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews 3 Comments
Inspiration
Chris Redding lives in the wilds of New Jersey with her husband, two kids, one dog, and three rabbits. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism and has only had one job in that field because she spent her early marriage following her husband’s career around Europe. When she isn’t writing she [...]
October 21, 2011
Posted in: Contests/Giveaways, Guest Blogs 11 Comments
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