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Dennis Hetzel

Dennis Hetzel

Dennis Hetzel is the author of three novels for Headline Books. His latest, Azalea Bluff, is a UFO mystery set in a Carolina beach town. His two award-winning thrillers, Killing the Curse and Season of Lies, explored the prices paid to succeed at the highest levels of politics and sports. A Chicago native, Hetzel was an award-winning reporter, editor and publisher before becoming executive director of the Ohio News Media Association. He has also taught journalism at Penn State and Temple universities. He lives in Holden Beach NC where he writes, edits, consults and plays lots of guitar. To learn more, visit his website.

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FictionThrillers

Michael Connelly’s Latest Is a Touchdown From the Tom Brady of Procedurals

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/booktrib_MichaelConnelly_LawOfInnocence.jpg "A supremely intelligent, well-paced courtroom thriller by a modern master ..." — Publishers Weekly "When it comes to series mysteries, there’s everybody else, and then there’s Michael Connelly." — BookPage —∞— So, maybe you’re thinking you don’t want to read The Law of Innocence (Little, Brown and Company). Maybe…
Dennis Hetzel
November 9, 2020
Nonfiction

“American Oz” Pulls the Curtain on Carnival Life to Show Us Ourselves

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/american-oz-michael-sean-comerford2.jpg “Immersion journalism” describes journalists who go all-in. That means a 24/7 experience with the subject, keeping only the most tenuous ties with your prior life. You can’t get more immersive than the assignment that Michael Sean Comerford gave himself to write American Oz.  He left his family in the Chicago…
Dennis Hetzel
November 6, 2020
Fiction

Paolini’s SciFi Debut Is a First-Rate First Contact Story With Epic Sweep

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/to-sleep-in-a-sea-of-stars-christopher-paolini.jpg “A powerful piece of SF, with intelligent writing and big ideas.” —Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time “Dazzles with otherworldly delights — and unearthly nightmares.” —Newsweek “This is Paolini's best book so far, skillfully done, brilliantly imagined and cleverly executed." —Starburst Magazine “Sure to be one of the…
Dennis Hetzel
October 8, 2020

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