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JANUARY - FEBRUARY REVIEWS K.
I. A.
One by one the brothers
are not only killed on or near the bases, but scalped. Investigating
Chief Deveroux hooks up with dedicated military forensic investigator Dr. Kel
McKelvey and now retired General Paul Flick.
All men who know what it means to be an officer and a gentleman and for
whom honor is the key ingredient. Each approaches from a different direction:
Deveroux looking for the killer, Kel identifying remains shipped from Hoo-ha! A great mystery and an interesting peek into the military. I have great respect for real-life forensic anthropologist Thomas Holland’s fiction.
Small town It is easy to see how Arkansas-bred
H.R. Williams won 1st prize at the Arkansas Writer’s Conference.
This is a dynamite read. BLOOD
DREAMS
Desperate to find the killer before all her dreams come true, Dani joins her twin, Paris, and several other psychics in tracking the villain. Rather than helping, they have started appearing in her dreams too. The blood splatter continues. Where is the basement, the fire, the closed door? Even I began to hear the screams. Box cutters make a nasty weapon. Hunk Marcus Purcell, Dani’s childhood friend, is back in her life as local Sheriff and he remembers first hand how powerful and true dreams can be. He has the ability to touch a person and determine if they are psychic. There are several other paranormal skills exhibited and a strong possibility that the killer can invade minds and dreams. Bizarre. Kay Hooper are you clairvoyant? THE
THIEVES OF FAITH
After a funeral for Genevieve, a dear friend who owned and operated an orphanage for many years, Michael finds a letter from his late wife in a jacket pocket with the name and address of a famous, retired and wealthy, District Attorney. Coincidently, the same name is found in Genevieve’s handbag, left for him under strange circumstances. Michael was orphaned at birth and raised by loving parents and is startled to discover that the retired DA is his birth father. The family dynamics of all the characters is unprecedented in scope. A Russian assassin must kill Michael in order to save the life of his six-year-old son. Michael’s Dad is kidnapped by Julian, also a product of Genevieve’s orphanage who has become a ruthless leader of a powerful religious cult. Michael must secure from the well protected Kremlin vault a golden box. A seemingly impossible task. To top it off, he dare not deliver the goods to miscreant Julian. Michael is a combination of the old Cary Grant from “To Catch A Thief” fame and the mentalist Kreskin. What a Book! My bet is it makes a great movie! FLESH
AND BONE by Jefferson Bass NOVEMBER - DECEMBER REVIEWS HELL
FOR THE HOLIDAYS HELL
FOR THE HOLIDAYS by
Chris Grabenstein should come with a warning label. My pulse is still racing. Sure, I
was already worried about Al Qaeda and foreign terrorists but that is small
potatoes compared to the story Chris spins with white Supremacists whipped to a
frenzy by a radical radio announcer in our own country.
Be prepared for graphic racial slurs beyond imagination in the call to
“take Agent
Chris Miller (St. Chris) is back with his darling family, just one year after
the “bad Santa” took daughter Angela, then 6, hostage.
With that anniversary coming up, and Christmas, Santa’s starting to
come out everywhere, Angela needs her dad and he wants to be there for her. But
then who can save The
odious language from the “skin heads” is enough to make one hide the book
from children but then that is also what makes it so darn believable.
They hate Jews, Blacks, Mexicans and anyone who associates with them.
The Eagle. (best eyes an assassin could have) has been given definite
plans on when and how to ruin everyone’s Thanksgiving Holiday.
Imagine a hand held rocket big enough to knock out an airplane or the
Macy’s Parade. The
tension is enough to raise my blood pressure but oh what a story.
I remain Chris Grabenstein’s biggest fan. NAKED
ADDICTION NAKED
ADDICTION by
Caitlin Rother begins with a young boy, Ken Goode, waiting in a car parked in
the middle of a bridge as his mother had asked.
He glances up into the rear view mirror just in time to see his mom leap
into the dark waters below. The nice police officer that took him back to his
dad made young Ken want to be a police officer. The story
is filled with several people who could be called “wanna bes.” Detective
Ken Goode of Santa Ana marks the anniversary of his mother’s death with
a rose tossed over the bridge as he talks to her about his need not to sit idly
by while tragedies occur. He is temporally assigned to homicide after several
years in undercover narcotics and he desperately longs to prove himself so that
he will be assigned to homicide permanently.
On his way home, he spies red toenails and long legs sticking out behind
a trash can in an alley. A look behind the cans reveals a stunning raven-haired
dead girl. If he handles this murder case properly he might get his wish. Goode
finds Tania’s explicit diary and it is crammed full of fulfilled and
unfulfilled sexual ideas. Goode is
in a state of arousal from this point on in the story. Next,
there is a Sun Dispatch clerk, Norman,
who wants to be a great reporter. He
stumbles on Goode investigating the Tania case. Getting Goode to talk about the
body is definitely a challenge. This may be Tania was
enrolled in the same beauty school as Goode’s sister, who disappears about the
time another beauty school girl is found dead. Another key character from the
beauty school is Alison, who just wants to be loved for herself rather than her
body. As I read
this book and thought on the characters, I remembered the old adage “I’d
rather be lucky than good.” The
characters got lucky, but the case was solved because they “got good.” Award
winning Caitlin Rother has another winner! You will find Carolyn's review of WHEN
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