Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Mystery Fanfare: DENISE DIETZ: R.I.P.
Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: "The Gay Old Dog" by Edna Ferber
Jerry's House of Everything: SHORT STORY WEDNESDAY: SUB-SATELLITE
Short Story Wednesday Review: The Missing Sniper by Earl Staggs
From
the massive archive….
Thanks
to his gift, Adam Kingston knew he would get a phone call. Who was calling, why
he would be called, he didn’t know. But, he knew it would be a call about
someone dying somewhere and he would be involved. Hard to sleep when you know
something is going to happen. Hard to sleep when you know for absolute
certainty just enough to be worried.
The
phone call finally comes by way of Sheriff Dillon Corbin of Mendes County,
Florida. Adam is on a master list of Law
Enforcement consultants and the good Sheriff needs his help. Three weeks ago
somebody tried to take out a State Senator.
While they know where the shots came from they knew nothing else and
have no suspects. The shooter is still out there and may try again if he or she
isn’t stopped.
Soon
Adam is in Jacksonville, Florida with Sheriff Dillon working the case. The
target, Senator Willy Thornton, has plenty of enemies because of his politics
and the way he lives his life. Business
rivals, spouses of the women he has seduced and many others have good reason to
want him dead. Good thing Adam has a bit
of ability with extra sensory perception and can pick up a few images along the
way as he helps with the case.
Released
from Untreed Reads last January, this is the short story that ultimately gave
rise to Earl Staggs' powerfully good novel, Memory of a Murder. This cozy style type read is full of twists
and turns and on that will keep you very entertained as it moves through the
pages.
Amazon
Associate Purchase Link: https://amzn.to/4d0Ymax
Kevin
R. Tipple ©2012, 2024
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
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Bookblog of the Bristol Library: The Element Encyclopedia of the Celts by Rodney Castleden
Monday, July 29, 2024
Beneath the Stains of Time: Back in Black: Case Closed, vol. 90 by Gosho Aoyama
Aubrey Nye Hamilton Reviews: The Book Club Murders by Alan Gorevan
Alan Gorevan
is an intellectual property lawyer and a crime fiction writer from Dublin with
some 15 books to his credit. He published The Book Club Murders independently
in October 2023.
Izzie O’Brien
has had it with her controlling possessive boyfriend. She waited until he was
at work on her day off and packed everything she owned into her tiny Fiat and
drove south to Dun Laoghaire, a former fishing village where her aunt Elaine
had lived. Elaine died only 10 weeks before in a household accident and she
left her terraced house to Izzie, who was grateful for a place to hide from Adam,
whom she found increasingly frightening.
Adam’s
possessiveness had been worrying but the final straw was when Izzie discovered
Adam’s previous girlfriend had been murdered and Adam had been the primary
suspect. Unfortunately she could easily believe it. Both her aunt and her
friends had warned her about Adam but she was so smitten that she could not
hear what they were saying. Now she understood everything they were telling
her.
Louise, one
of the Izzie’s new neighbors, watched Adam throwing a fit on Izzie’s doorstep. After
he gave up and left, but not before smashing her car window, Louise invited
Izzie to her house for the weekly book club, where she was warmly welcomed by
Kate, Tess, Dee, and Melanie. The group was shocked and stunned when Kate died
on the way home that night, stumbling onto the rocks below the pier where the
garda assumed she’d wandered after drinking a bit too much.
With multiple
narrative threads the story and characters in this book could be hard to keep
straight but the various subplots come together neatly. The major account is
Izzie’s attempt to remove Adam from her life and move on amid his determination
to force her to return. The rapid fire pacing and the crisp writing are
propulsive and I raced through this book without realizing how quickly I was
reading. Highly rated on Amazon and Goodreads. For fans of domestic thrillers
and strong characters.
·
Publisher: Independently published
(September 30, 2023)
·
Language: English
·
Paperback: 408 pages
·
ISBN-13: 979-835381112
Amazon Associate Purchase Link: https://amzn.to/3WuyMUG
Aubrey Nye Hamilton ©2024
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who works on Federal It projects by day and reads mysteries at night.
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