OMG, I adore this book! It’s Indiana Jones meets The DaVinci Code! I can’t recommend The Bounty highly enough. Kate and Nick have a new assignment—searching for a long-hidden trove of Nazi gold. They will not only need their own varied skills but also the skills of their fathers. TheContinue Reading
Wonderworks has a unique concept. Let’s look across time and place to find twenty-five literary tools that most impact writing today. Then, show how they began to be used and how they continue to be used today in both books and film. Finally, how you can use the technique inContinue Reading
Judge Anthony Carasco has a problem. He loves a beautiful prostitute named Stacey, who he has set up in her own apartment. But he can’t let his rich wife divorce him over his affair. He wants to keep her trust fund money for himself. His solution is an immensely complicatedContinue Reading
My Review In A Game of Cones, Browyn is the manager of her family-owned ice cream shop in small town Chagrin Falls, Ohio. During a town meeting, a big city real estate developer mentions his plans to build a vertical mall in the historic town triangle. Later that day, heContinue Reading
It’s a fish-out-of-water tale when a Chicago mobster named Sailor visits New Mexico in 1946. He is looking for revenge from a corrupt Senator. But a Chicago detective is also looking for the Senator in Ride the Pink Horse. It is amazing what were acceptable words to use to describeContinue Reading
Jordan is a controversial satellite radio talk show host when she sees this on her monitor: “Line 5 —Bernie (wants to play a game)”. Soon it is clear that the game is real, dangerous and it truly is A Caller’s Game. You see, Bernie has a hidden and complex agendaContinue Reading
“Beer is my holy water! The drink of the gods! Skipping work to get drunk. I’m a schlub and I love it…“—Tendo from Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead Tendo has been a salaryman for three years in his drone of a job. His department chief, Kosugi, has impossibleContinue Reading
In The Future is Yours, two Stanford misfits bond in college and subsequently discover a revolutionary process. Using quantum computing and a boat-load of start-up capital, they have a way to access future data from computers located in the present. Think of how disruptive this would be on society. NoContinue Reading
In The Four Winds, Elsa Wolcott is a plain and incredibly tall unmarried woman of twenty-five. Her parents hoard their love for her making her think she is unlovable. It is 1921. “By twenty-five, the die was cast. An unmarried woman was a spinster. ‘On the shelf’ they called her,Continue Reading
In The Children God Forgot, women are having severely deformed babies. Crews working on cleaning London’s Victorian-era sewers see ghostly children who have murderous intent. People are killing each other in deranged rages. What is going on? More importantly, how can we stop it? Remember the pure and scary earlyContinue Reading
“My name is Frankie Elkin and finding missing people is what I do. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never bothered to care, I start looking.“—from Before She Disappeared Frankie has been searching for missing people for ten years. TheContinue Reading
If you are old enough to remember when vinyl records were the only choice to buy music, you, like me, will love the behind-the-scenes rock music production stories included in the excellent Sonic Boom. In 1958, Jack Warner started Warner Bros Records to cash in on the profits that theContinue Reading
A Nigerian-American police detective named Chioma visits her grandmother and grand-auntie in Nigeria. A strange and injured boy invites her to play tag during a rain storm. But it is what happens After the Rain that drives the plot of this multi-layered tale. First it was the smell. Then theContinue Reading
The Absence of Alice is an enthralling, dark, unusual, and just plain fun cozy mystery. Someone is taunting Sarah. She has seven days to find her landlady and friend Stella. But she must follow the kidnapper’s rules. No talking to the police, your DA boyfriend, Seth, or your mobbed-up neighbor,Continue Reading
Tired of being on diets only to gain all the weight back (plus more)? The Mediterranean diet is more like a lifestyle. Once you commit to it, you won’t want to stop eating its delicious food. The author of The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook for Beginners knows of what she speaksContinue Reading
A wife hiding a shocking secret. A husband who wants to leave, but can’t. A son who believes he is a wolf being raised by bears. A homeless woman living, undetected, in The Wrong Family’s house. Can she unmask the family’s mystery? Yum, I ate up this intriguing domestic suspenseContinue Reading