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EXCLUSIVE! A Conversation with Awkward’s Monty Geer

Actor Monty Geer is enjoying every second playing Cole on MTV’s Awkward. and has really enjoyed watching the character grow. With the show in its final season and storylines wrapping up, we checked in with the star. He talked to us about where he hopes to see Cole end up, what…

Beth WaskoOctober 16, 2015

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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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Our World Needs More Than “Thoughts & Prayers,” but This Powerful Book Is a Good Start

Almost four years after the horrific school shooting in Parkland, Florida, author Lee Anne Post pays homage to the victims in her novel Thoughts and Prayers (Milford House Press). This riveting and terrifying read takes us into the minds of the perpetrators, the victims and the victims’ families in a…

K.L. RomoNovember 19, 2021

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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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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

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“Hummingbird: Broken Wings” Is a Coming-of-Age Mystery Where Angels, Demons and Witchcraft Collide

“‘It’s amazing what humans will sacrifice for money and power … I told you, Abby, humans can’t resist what evil sometimes offers.’” In the novel Hummingbird: Broken Wings by Spencer K. Prescott, we meet straight-A student Abigail Anderson, and she has the receipts to brag. She’s the first person in…

Emily WolfeJune 10, 2021

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In “An Unlikely Spy” and World War II London, Espionage Shows Its Dark Side

In Rebecca Starford’s An Unlikely Spy (Ecco), Evelyn Varley is about to find that out the hard way. In 1939 with the war looming, Evelyn is recruited by MI5, first to transport classified material, then to infiltrate a group of Nazi sympathizers. She finds it easy and exhilarating at first.…

Neil NyrenMay 28, 2021

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“Oldogs,” New Tricks in Kip Cassino’s Political Thriller

They are old. They have been in the military, many on dangerous or clandestine missions. They have useful skills that could be of value to an organization like the CIA. They are bored, lonely, and looking to get back in the game. The CIA, writes author Kip Cassino, gets 15,000…

Jim AlkonMay 11, 2021

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“EVE-0,” A Pandemic Thriller Set in the Amazon Jungle

Dr. Gabrielle Gale is an emergency room physician at a busy city hospital that’s become even busier these days. In the eight years since the COVID-19 pandemic, a series of other deadly threats have killed many more millions. On CNN, a map of the United States showing outbreaks of different…

Joanna PoncavageMay 11, 2021

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“MagicLand” Paints a New Fantasy World While Harkening Back to Beloved Favorites

In MagicLand (Morgan James Publishing), debut author Charles Bastille creates an almost-decimated Earth where the small remaining population is at war. The magicians of Moria and the tech-enhanced denizens of Gath couldn’t be more different from each other, whether as individuals or as societies. They are hardly even the same…

Y. M. NelsonSeptember 8, 2021

EXCLUSIVE! A Conversation with Awkward’s Monty Geer

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”

Our World Needs More Than “Thoughts & Prayers,” but This Powerful Book Is a Good Start

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

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

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”

“Hummingbird: Broken Wings” Is a Coming-of-Age Mystery Where Angels, Demons and Witchcraft Collide

In “An Unlikely Spy” and World War II London, Espionage Shows Its Dark Side

“Oldogs,” New Tricks in Kip Cassino’s Political Thriller

“EVE-0,” A Pandemic Thriller Set in the Amazon Jungle

“MagicLand” Paints a New Fantasy World While Harkening Back to Beloved Favorites

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