by michaeld | Feb 11, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
By Deborah Coonts Forge Books, 24.99, 381 pages In So Damn Lucky, heroine Lucky O’Toole is a Las Vegas casino owner who investigates the mysterious death of magician Dmitri Fortunoff, which occurred during a show, and the subsequent disappearance...
by michaeld | Dec 12, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Self-Help
Get Your Creative Juices Flowing By San Francisco Writers’ Grotto and Po Bronson Chronicle Books, $16.95, 304 pages This is a book “written in single day,” as the author to the introduction Po Bronson informs us. When an editor emailed Bronson with...
by michaeld | Nov 12, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Science Fiction
Ridding the Curse By Sergey and Marina Dyachenko Tor Forge 24.99 336 pages The steel blade had ripped through his cheek, and the curse had broken his life in two. The life of young, brazen, handsome Egert Stoll seems blessed—loving and wealthy parents,...
by Site Owner | Sep 10, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
By Robert Kalich MacAdam Cage, $24.00, 264 pages The Investigation of Ariel Warning is not the story of a sky message. It is the story of a woman, Ariel Warning, who enters the lives of narrator Adam Remler and his identical twin David, struggling movie producers. The...
by Site Owner | Jul 9, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
By Steve Martini Harper, $9.99, 501 pages In this novel, “the rule of nine” of the title refers to the U.S. Supreme Court –nine justices with enormous power. The story begins with the murder of a low-level staffer at the Court by an assassin known as...
