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Q&A with M. L. Huie on Spy Thriller and Flawed Heroine

If you’re after a riveting spy thriller with the added bonuses of an intrepid female protagonist, a fascinating historical setting, and a nuanced depiction of challenging ethical decisions, M. L. Huie’s debut novel Spitfire (our review) is worthy of your consideration. When you first meet anti-heroine Livy Nash, she certainly doesn’t…
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January 29, 2020
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A Few Questions with Versatile Author Steven Forman

Before he wrote A Better Place, Steven M. Forman made a name for himself with the Boca trilogy, a series of mystery novels set in Forman’s own Boca Raton. His latest novel, an epic 400-plus-page saga spanning most of the twentieth century and revolving around the story of one interconnected…
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January 7, 2020
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Ron Coury and the Pursuit of Happiness in Vegas

You’d think that either receiving death threats while trying to open a limousine company or battling a form of cancer with an 8 percent survival rate would top the list for most people of their most difficult life challenge. Not in the case of Ron Coury, whose inspiring memoir Tenacity…
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January 7, 2020
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Karen Keilt: 6 Questions About a Harrowing Memoir

“In January 1976, I was a bliss-filled, 23-year-old newlywed. Three months after our wedding, my husband and I were awakened at 3:00 a.m. by men with guns. We feared we were being kidnapped by hardened criminals. Kidnapping was then -- and still is -- a common occurrence in Brazil. As…
Jim Alkon
December 2, 2019
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5 Questions for Margo T Krasne in Touching Romp Through NYC

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/I-Was-There-All-Along-Margo-Krasne-550x465.jpg Margo T. Krasne, a young actress wannabe, had been invited by a friend to see the new Elaine May and Mike Nichols Broadway show. They had great seats. Nichols seemed to notice their raucous laughs during the performance and at the curtain motioned them to come backstage. Next thing…
Jim Alkon
November 4, 2019
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Shanon Hunt: A New Force in Medical Thriller Genre

A pharmaceutical industry executive for 15 years, Shanon Hunt has parlayed a powerful gene-editing mechanism called CRISPR with her own experience of cutting-edge medical advances into an edge-of-your-seat debut suspense thriller called The Pain Colony (Narrow Ledge Publishing). Hunt’s masterfully plotted and sequenced DNA-focused narrative, with both good- and bad-intentioned…
Jim Alkon
October 23, 2019