Author JD Allen dives into the Vegas underworld in her new novel Skin Game. A timely story dealing with human trafficking. Private Investigator Jim Beam is not living his ideal life. He works in Las Vegas mostly chasing cheating husbands and insurance scammers. He drinks too much, and he has a debt to a big-time […]
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Book Review: Killer Thriller by Lee Goldberg
Author Lee Goldberg has started a new series about an author who bumbles into international conspiracies. Ironically the main character, Ian Ludlow, is a pen name Goldberg used early in his career. Killer Thriller kicks off with Ludlow getting ready to head to Hong Kong. A movie is being made about one of his books. […]
Book Review – The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
When a book is described as a mix between Groundhog Day and Quantum Leap I feel the impulse to pick it up. With The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, I am very happy to have made that decision. The book opens a bit slowly. A man is in the woods lost and unsure who he […]
Book Review – Plains of Exodus by Robert J. Burnett
The Earth is a dead planet with the human population living in massive star ships. Humanity is hoping to find a new home. Then smuggler Jonah Mctier makes an amazing discovery. Plains of Exodus revolves around the hero Jonah discovering an unmapped planet. His discovery also includes a wormhole to a new galaxy. His discovery […]
Book Review – Professor K: The Final Quest by Gabriel Farago
Gabriel Farago new book, Professor K: The Final Quest, is an ensemble cast type of story. What starts as multiple disconnected storylines interweaves into an overarching global conspiracy. The story starts in the Ottoman Empire with the Sultan (king) on his deathbed. One of the Sultan’s nineteen sons makes a desperate escape from the castle. His […]
Book Review: Edwin’s Equity by Harvey Church
Edwin Burrows, CPA has become one of my favorite amateur sleuths in crime fiction. Edwin’s Equity is the fifth in the series that keeps getting better with each new story. If you have not read some of the other Edwin Burrows books, please check out my review of the first in the series, Alibi Aficionado. […]