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Sex, Voyeurism, A Legendary Journalist And The Thin Line Between Fact And Fantasy

Ever go to a hotel and wonder if anyone is watching you? Voyeur, a documentary shown this weekend at the Hamptons Film Festival about well-known journalist Gay Talese and motel owner Gerald Foos, the voyeur who chose him to write his story. It started more than thirty years earlier when Foos…

Meryl L. MossOctober 9, 2017

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Aren't free books the best? Each week there's something for everyone this week! Don't delay, enter to win this week's books. The Angel's Lamp by Ashby Jones The Angel’s Lamp, set in war-torn Ireland just after the Easter Rising, centers around a love affair between Johnny Flynn, an Irish-bred, English staff-sergeant…

BookTribFebruary 4, 2016

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Bad Boys Make the Best Books in This Week’s Author Buzz

Dear Reader In the spirit of writing about bad boys and the women who love them, it’s my pleasure to bring you the first stand-alone book in my Bodyguard Bad Boys series, Rock Me. My bodyguard bad boys are sexy, hot and oh so protective. First up is Ben Hollander,…

AuthorBuzzSeptember 11, 2017

Fiction Young Adult

“Garkain” Rewrites the Vampire Rulebook

After sending in her little test tube of saliva, Amelia, an orphan left at the door of a Texas hospital 25 years ago, gets the call she’s been waiting for all her life: a voice on the phone that says, “I’m your mother.” Garkain: Book One of the Uluru Legacy…

Joanna PoncavageApril 27, 2021

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Priest, Bride, Haunted Hacienda Sweep Readers Into Spellbinding 19th-Century Mexico

The speaker in Isabel Cañas’ remarkable blend of suspense, horror, romance and supernatural gothic, The Hacienda (Berkley), is Beatriz, 20, the new bride of a rich Mexican landowner named Don Rodolfo. The year is 1823, shortly after the bloody Mexican War of Independence, and Beatriz’s family had the misfortune of…

Neil NyrenApril 29, 2022

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Clearly We “Don’t Know Tough”, Because “Friday Night Lights” Was Never Like This

In Eli Cranor’s searing Southern Gothic Don’t Know Tough (Soho Crime), three people at the ends of their ropes form an uneasy alliance – until it all blows up. Trent Powers is the new coach of the high school football team in Denton, Arkansas, “a small town nestled in the…

Neil NyrenFebruary 25, 2022

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Jon Land Aces Margaret Truman’s Capital Crimes Series Yet Again With “Murder at the CDC”

Brimming with action and terrifying suspense, Murder at the CDC (Forge Books) takes a hard look at a divided nation and examines the consequences when rhetoric and lies spiral out of control. This 32nd installment of Margaret Truman’s Capital Crimes series is the second penned by veteran thriller author Jon…

James R. HannibalFebruary 15, 2022

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“Havana Brown” Offers a Rule-Breaking, Literal Cat-and-Mouse Mystery

Turns out they’re a rare breed with unusual chocolate-brown fur. It also turns out that the clues left by a certain feline owned by a serial killer whose methods are unusually sick — even by serial killer standards — can form the basis of an excellent procedural thriller. Havana Brown…

Dennis HetzelDecember 3, 2021

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Follett’s “Never” Shines With the Horrific Brilliance of a Nuclear Bomb

When I finished Ken Follett’s Never, I leaned back in my chair in silence and listened to my breathing for a few seconds. I needed to process and sort emotions after finishing a great story that had climaxed into one of the most powerful, abrupt and dramatic endings I’d ever…

Dennis HetzelNovember 9, 2021

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A Couple’s Night Out Turns Into a Year-Long Disappearance in “The Night She Disappeared”

On a gorgeous England summer’s eve, after a night spent partying with a new friend, a young, single mother and her boyfriend disappear from the massive Dark Place estate, never to be seen or heard from again. Rumors abound: Perhaps the couple, tired of their adult responsibilities — including their…

Gabby DavisSeptember 7, 2021

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Fact and Fiction Blur Together as a Woman’s Reality Show Obsession Grows in “Stalker Stalked”

Stalker Stalked (Down & Out Books / All Due Respect) is a clever, fast-paced thriller with a pulp-fiction feel that I could not put down. Author Lee Matthew Goldberg is also a screen and television writer, and it shows. Just like a movie, he starts the book with a BAM! …

Karina Holosko, M.A. English LitSeptember 17, 2021

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Shards of Artisan Glass Shatter a Devon Hamlet in “The Heron’s Cry”

Detective Matthew Venn of the North Devon Police Department reminds his staff, his suspects and his husband, Jonathan, of this noble bird in Ann Cleeves’ latest Two Rivers mystery, The Heron’s Cry (Macmillan). Matthew is revered by his team, Detective Sergeant Jen Rafferty and Detective Constable Ross May, as they…

Jodé MillmanSeptember 7, 2021

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Reichs Remains the Master of Forensic Fiction in Her Latest Novel “The Bone Code”

It’s fair to say that Dr. Temperance Brennan is having a very 2021 kind of year: that is, everything is a cluster of chaos in Kathy Reichs’ The Bone Code (Scribner). There’s the tropical storm sending everyone, especially her fidgety feline companion, for cover. There’s the concerning outbreak of capno,…

Amanda GardnerJuly 6, 2021

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A Family, and a City, Confront Their “Monsters”

“Memory, of course, is also a story. It feels like the truth, especially when there is no one to dispute your recollection of events. But it is a story nonetheless — some moments have been elided, and others have been emphasized and made either luminous or horrific or both ……

Neil NyrenJune 25, 2021

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Jack Ryan Jr. Leaps Into Danger as a Classic Hero in “Target Acquired”

In Target Acquired (G.P. Putnam's Sons), Don Bentley delivers in an action-packed debut as the author of books featuring Jack Ryan Jr., the son of none other than Jack Ryan, the CIA operative who reluctantly became president of the United States. It all started with The Hunt for Red October,…

Dennis HetzelJune 29, 2021

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Laurie R. King Delivers Majesty and Enigma in the Latest Mary Russell Mystery, “Castle Shade”

Detective work doesn’t sleep. Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes have barely closed the door on their latest case when they arrive in Transylvania to delve into another. Summoned by Roumania’s Queen Marie, the pair is commissioned to investigate the ominous happenstances lately encompassing Castle Bran, a structure with sinister and…

Amanda GardnerJune 8, 2021

Sex, Voyeurism, A Legendary Journalist And The Thin Line Between Fact And Fantasy

Get off DoggyDates.com and Fall in Love With These Giveaways!

Bad Boys Make the Best Books in This Week’s Author Buzz

“Garkain” Rewrites the Vampire Rulebook

Priest, Bride, Haunted Hacienda Sweep Readers Into Spellbinding 19th-Century Mexico

Clearly We “Don’t Know Tough”, Because “Friday Night Lights” Was Never Like This

Jon Land Aces Margaret Truman’s Capital Crimes Series Yet Again With “Murder at the CDC”

“Havana Brown” Offers a Rule-Breaking, Literal Cat-and-Mouse Mystery

Follett’s “Never” Shines With the Horrific Brilliance of a Nuclear Bomb

A Couple’s Night Out Turns Into a Year-Long Disappearance in “The Night She Disappeared”

Shards of Artisan Glass Shatter a Devon Hamlet in “The Heron’s Cry”

Reichs Remains the Master of Forensic Fiction in Her Latest Novel “The Bone Code”

A Family, and a City, Confront Their “Monsters”

Jack Ryan Jr. Leaps Into Danger as a Classic Hero in “Target Acquired”

Laurie R. King Delivers Majesty and Enigma in the Latest Mary Russell Mystery, “Castle Shade”

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