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K.L. Romo

K.L. Romo

K. L. Romo writes about life on the fringe: teetering dangerously on the edge is more interesting than standing safely in the middle. She is passionate about women’s issues, loves noisy clocks and fuzzy blankets, but HATES the word normal. She blogs about books at Romo's Reading Room. For more, visit klromo.com, @klromo on Twitter and @k.l.romo on Instagram.

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Thrillers

A Tableau of Artful Murders in “The Museum of Desire”

Alex and Milo are back. In The Museum of Desire (Ballantine Books) — prolific author Jonathan Kellerman’s 35th book of the series — psychologist Alex Delaware and his best friend, Detective Milo Sturgis, investigate a complex murder scene that appears more like a theatrical production. There is no shortage of…
K.L. Romo
February 3, 2020
Thrillers

Drug Money Turns Deadly in “Killer Deal”

In Killer Deal (Gordon Productions, LLC), the second book in Karen S. Gordon's Gold and Courage series, Gordon spins a tale of secret manipulation and murderous revenge in the middle of the West Texas desert. When Vance Courage a former not-so-upright police-detective-turned-attorney, and video producer Lauren Gold buy a West…
K.L. Romo
January 14, 2020
Better SelfNonfiction

On Love, Loss and Letting Your Light Shine

Imagine becoming permanent guardians for two kids — a girl and a boy. You raise them for four years as your own, giving them love and encouragement they’d never had. Then you pursue adoption. But instead of officially becoming their parents, they are ripped from your home forever, without the…
K.L. Romo
December 5, 2019
Thrillers

Sicarios, Sagebrush and Sheriffs in “This Side of Night”

In This Side of Night (G.P. Putnam’s Sons), J. Todd Scott wraps a Drug Enforcement Agency procedural around a modernized Western, then rolls it in a batter of action-thriller and twenty-first century shootouts. Scott uses the extensive knowledge gained from his twenty-year position as a DEA agent in the Southwest…
K.L. Romo
October 21, 2019
Thrillers

More Than Leis and Luaus in “Off the Grid”

Deception, espionage, and murder erupt amid the Hawaiian volcano fields in Robert McCaw’s newest Hawaiian police procedural Off the Grid (Oceanview Publishing). Hilo Chief Detective Koa Kāne—imagine a Dave Robicheaux of the Hawaiian Islands—doesn’t know what to make of the explosion outside Volcano Village on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.…
K.L. Romo
September 13, 2019
Thrillers

Mother Knows Best… But Which One?

In Kira Peikoff’s domestic medical thriller, Mother Knows Best (Crooked Lane), a heartbroken mother is certain that having a healthy child is more important than the unethical process taken to create one. Bioethics battles human longing in this story of medically possible versus moral. Three years after her son died…
K.L. Romo
September 10, 2019
Fiction

J.J. Martin Tackles Delicate Topic Within the Catholic Church

Sometimes, and with some topics, there are no delicate ways to tell a story. That’s what makes them harrowing, heart-wrenching, so real and so important. In his debut novel, Father Sweet (Dundurn), J. J. Martin gives readers an intimate glimpse into clerical abuse of young boys within the Catholic Church…
K.L. Romo
July 18, 2019
Thrillers

Hypocrisy and Homicide in the Hamptons in “One Little Secret”

In Cate Holahan’s electric Hamptons thriller, One Little Secret (Crooked Lane Books), love, passion, abuse and betrayal snake through the lives of three seemingly flawless couples. Their $3,000 per night waterfront rental in the exclusive Amagansett enclave is just what they need to get to know each other better. But…
K.L. Romo
July 9, 2019
Book Club NetworkThrillers

Dial M for a Midnight Murder

Everyone dreads that terrifying call that comes in the middle of the night. Your worst fears might be realized, your life changed forever in the minute it takes to answer. Jessie Martin never expected to hear the word murder on the other end of the line. That ringing phone was…
K.L. Romo
June 18, 2019
Fiction

The Courage to Move On in “A Better Next”

How will you determine what comes next? This is the premise of the novel A Better Next (She Writes Press) by Maren Cooper. Forty-five-year-old Jess Lawson is a successful healthcare consultant with two college kids. She and her surgery professor husband, Arthur, live a busy and fulfilling life in St.…
K.L. Romo
May 28, 2019

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