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“Lost in Ghost Town:” The Scared-Straight Tale of a Rich Boy Hitting Crack-Rock Bottom

Addiction trumps privilege in Carder Stout’s vivid memoir Lost in Ghost Town: A Memoir of Addiction, Redemption, and Hope in Unlikely Places (HCI). Written with excruciating truth and visceral fear, desperation and despair, Stout takes us into the incapacitating stranglehold of addiction and the battle to overcome it. Son of…

K.L. RomoJune 7, 2020

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Meet the 19th-Century Heroine Who Transformed the Role of the American Woman

Back when men ran everything and women couldn’t vote, Sarah Josepha Hale was a formidable influence in U.S. history, responsible for a remarkable list of contributions that ranged from persuading President Lincoln to proclaim Thanksgiving a national holiday (in the middle of the Civil War, no less) to the introduction…

Sherri DaleyMarch 2, 2022

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Recovering Workaholic Depicts Nervous First-Times and Hilarious Mishaps in Tell-All Memoir

“Freeland’s memoir is unique … Her style is friendly and conversational; you’ll feel like the two of you are close friends having a ‘girly’ conversation over several glasses of wine.” —Readers' Favorite —∞— After reading The Ins and Outs of My Vagina: A Penetrating Memoir (Karin Freeland Publishing) by Karin…

Barbara WilkovSeptember 15, 2021

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“The Hierophant Card:” Tarot Reader Plays the Hand She Is Dealt

Truth to tell — I was about to embark on my first cozy mystery. You know, that subgenre of crime fiction in which sex and violence are downplayed or treated lightly, and the crime occurs in a small, intimate community. The detectives are almost always amateurs and are frequently women.…

Jim AlkonMay 19, 2020

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Secrets, Skeletons and Sociopaths

In The Girl With No Name (Bookouture), bestselling author Lisa Regan returns to the town of Denton, PA, and its newly appointed police chief, Josie Quinn. Josie was close to becoming a victim herself in capturing a serial killer who abducted and killed girls for pleasure. She thinks the nightmare…

K.L. RomoOctober 7, 2020

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Darkness, Danger, and Deadly Secrets in “Vanishing Girls”

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Vanishing-Girls-Lisa-Regan.jpg In Vanishing Girls (Grand Central Publishing), bestselling author Lisa Regan takes readers into the heart and mind of Detective Josie Quinn, a woman who admits her childhood damaged her, and she's nowhere near perfect. Josie might have anger issues, but why shouldn’t she? She’s separated from her police officer…

K.L. RomoAugust 13, 2020

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Rage, Buried Remains and Remnants of a Horrific Childhood in “Her Mother’s Grave”

In Her Mother’s Grave (Grand Central), bestselling author Lisa Regan takes readers further inside the life of Denton, Pennsylvania’s police chief, Josie Quinn, as a 30-year-old murder resurfaces. Josie has always tried to forget her childhood. What’s done is done, and she doesn’t want to bring up the real-life ghosts…

K.L. RomoJanuary 11, 2021

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A Hated Judge, an Unending Suspect List and a Small Town Full of Secrets

Think of all the times people have described a book to you by saying it starts off slowly but you’ll get into it. Frankly, that never cut it for me. Author Katherine Burnette subconsciously must have been listening. That’s because before you’ve left the first two pages of her legal…

Jim AlkonMay 26, 2022

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Ed Hajim’s “On the Road Less Traveled” Takes Us on an Unforgettable Journey

“A bend in the road,” says Ed Hajim, “is not the end of the road.” He should know. At the age of three, Hajim was kidnapped by his father, driven cross-country, and told that his mother was dead. He pressed his face against the car window, watched the miles pass…

Jim AlkonMarch 1, 2021

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A.F. Brady’s “Could Be” Killer

Compelling readers to turn the pages in a novel with a hateful anti-hero and few sympathetic characters is tricky, but A.F. Brady succeeds and captivates in the complex, intricately plotted and propulsive psychological thriller Once A Liar (Park Row Books). A.F. Brady, the pseudonym of a Manhattan psychotherapist, is also…

Ann LinebergerApril 9, 2019

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Adventurous, Defiant Female WWII Pilot Jets Off in John W. Warner IV’s “Lion, Tiger, Bear”

When he was young, John W. Warner IV often found his family rubbing elbows with the highest political and business figures at historically significant gatherings around the world. Such is life when you are the son of the recently deceased Sen. John W. Warner III (R-VA), former Secretary of the…

Sherri DaleySeptember 9, 2021

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This Time It’s Personal; The Gripping Sequel in a Climactic International Thriller Series

Duty calls to this moody detective, but how is he supposed to do his job when the world’s most elusive assassin has been hired to take him out on page one? In Otho Eskin’s fast-paced new thriller, Head Shot (Oceanview Publishing), Washington D.C.’s top homicide detective, Marko Zorn, gets an…

Kendall FarrisDecember 14, 2021

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D.C. Detective Navigates Two Worlds in “The Reflecting Pool”

Is there room for yet-another thriller series centered around a cynical, witty homicide detective who skirts the law and has a mysterious past? If the detective is Marko Zorn in Otho Eskin’s The Reflecting Pool (Oceanview), the answer is that you might want to make space on your bookshelf. In…

Dennis HetzelJune 23, 2020

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“Franklin Rock:” The Man Who Could See the Future in the Past

"Franklin Rock is the New Age Candide!" —Jane Stanton Hitchcock, 2020 Hammett Prize winner for Bluff —∞— “A page-turner that leaves you feeling good about the future.” —Donna Brazile —∞— There’s a moment in Franklin Rock when Franklin’s professor tells him, “If you pay attention, you can see the future in…

BookTribJanuary 15, 2021

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“Fractus Europa:” Thriller Anthology Of Region Amid Seismic Change

If there’s any part of our world that’s undergone major upheaval in the last few decades, it’s Europe. Communism’s collapse and its fallout, the formation of the EU, the rise of international terrorism, refugees wanting in, countries wanting out — the Eurozone has been in a state of constant geopolitical…

Cynthia ConradMay 23, 2020

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Choosing Between a Lost Love and a Privileged Life in “Finding Mrs. Ford”

Deborah Goodrich Royce’s debut novel Finding Mrs. Ford (Post Hill Press) stars two young women who routinely make astonishingly bad choices while the reader cringes, hoping for the best despite the odds. Susan is the sensible one of the two, but she is beguiled by the beautiful, willful, capricious, and…

Sherri DaleyMay 11, 2020

“Lost in Ghost Town:” The Scared-Straight Tale of a Rich Boy Hitting Crack-Rock Bottom

Meet the 19th-Century Heroine Who Transformed the Role of the American Woman

Recovering Workaholic Depicts Nervous First-Times and Hilarious Mishaps in Tell-All Memoir

“The Hierophant Card:” Tarot Reader Plays the Hand She Is Dealt

Secrets, Skeletons and Sociopaths

Darkness, Danger, and Deadly Secrets in “Vanishing Girls”

Rage, Buried Remains and Remnants of a Horrific Childhood in “Her Mother’s Grave”

A Hated Judge, an Unending Suspect List and a Small Town Full of Secrets

Ed Hajim’s “On the Road Less Traveled” Takes Us on an Unforgettable Journey

A.F. Brady’s “Could Be” Killer

Adventurous, Defiant Female WWII Pilot Jets Off in John W. Warner IV’s “Lion, Tiger, Bear”

This Time It’s Personal; The Gripping Sequel in a Climactic International Thriller Series

D.C. Detective Navigates Two Worlds in “The Reflecting Pool”

“Franklin Rock:” The Man Who Could See the Future in the Past

“Fractus Europa:” Thriller Anthology Of Region Amid Seismic Change

Choosing Between a Lost Love and a Privileged Life in “Finding Mrs. Ford”

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