Pete Marsh is your everyday fellow, you know, life, love, girlfriend, boring job at a bookshop. Oh, he does have an imaginary friend named Albert, but doesn’t everyone? The way Book of Spells author Bill Lucas put it: So one day you inherit a bookshop. It turns out […]
Author Frank Okolo doesn’t offer much of a description to The Contractor: “An unpredictable U.S. president. Trumped by the Russians. And a terror group. The Secret Service has reason to be afraid. No one survives the Contractor.” Still, it’s obvious what his point is: opponents of the […]
Screw the Devil’s Daiquiri by Rayme Michaels is a strange brew of young, angry man angst and schizophrenia. The author knows this, as the preview runs: “When womanizer, and possible schizophrenic, John Hazel, is suddenly offered a serious job promotion by the CEO of his company, David Wall, under […]
Those who would read of Fantasy and Myth shall be entranced by Music And The Tree Who Loved Her. Sure, that’s a strong start to a review, but if you love a work of fantasy, the story presented by author J. A. Bennett is top notch. What I […]
Patrick Kanouse is an author who knows where he wants to go with a story, and The Clearing begins in medias res with immediate, significant action, and pulls the reader along with the sometimes reluctant characters. The protagonist, Dean Wallace, a divorced, former New York City detective, finds […]
Kerrie Noor’s novel, The Downfall of a Belly Dancer, arrived on Kindle November 19, 2016. It runs 231 pages – that’s about 2870 sections on my Kindle Fire. This is a quirky, funny account of a troupe of women dancing through their friendship’s familiarity, and their life’s uncertainty in their […]
John A. Heldt is the prolific author of American Journey, a series of books dealing with time travel and the mysteries they could present. Class of ’59 is the fourth offering, putting modern day Mary Beth McIntire on a collision course with Mark Ryan, who just happens to reside […]
Laura Hillenbrand is the remarkable author of Seabiscuit: An American Legend, and of course her previous work is also remarkable, but her own story will probably be a movie at some point in our lives. She wrote Unbroken as well as Seabiscuit after being diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue […]
The Mentor, by Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli, is a fast-moving Crime/Detective novel originally written in Italian and translated into English. That does leave the reader struggling a bit from time to time with specific words used in the text, but those aside, the writing translates well into a good novel, […]
Robert Masello’s World War II epic, The Einstein Prophecy reads a bit like Indiana Jones, not quite as campy, not quite as cute, but it carries the same time frame and involves a college professor lured into the action by an ancient sarcophagus that everyone wants, especially the […]
