Welcome back to the first Reader Friday of 2018! This past week I’ve read two books and The Promise by Susan Lantz Simpson is one of them and the one I’m talking about today. The other is Pam Hillman’s Promise of Breeze Hill. I’ll tell you what I think of it next week. I don’t usually read Amish fiction, but I love to …
Reader Friday – How many books will you read this year?
I read more books last year than I’ve read in a long time. How many? I don’t know. I didn’t keep count. But this year that will change because I’ve taken the Goodreads Challenge. And I’ve signed up to read 100 books. Do you want to take the Goodreads Challenge? If so, it’s really easy. Just click here. Now a …
Reader Friday – One Step Back
This week I spent time with my agent, Julie Gwinn. We talked about my research, and she thought I should share this story with you. I have a nurse on speed dial to help me with various plot complications…like how would a snake bite be treated and what would be the standard operating procedure in an ER. Those kinds of things. …
Reader Friday – Ten Seconds ‘Til
A few weeks ago I mentioned I’d read a couple of novellas and would write a review the next week…well, here’s the first one, only a few weeks late. 🙂 The first story is TEN SECONDS TIL… A New MedAir Series Crime Thriller from Critically-acclaimed Author Braxton DeGarmo A serial-bombing vigilante is on the loose, and when an explosion kills three well-known …
Reader Friday — Beyond Justice
Oh, wow! Can you believe it’s almost Thanksgiving! Wasn’t it just Easter a month or so ago? I don’t know how time gets away so quickly! But it does. 🙂 This week I’ve read Beyond Justice by Cara Putman, and boy, it was hard to put down. Here’s the back cover copy: Hayden McCarthy is on track to become the youngest partner …
Reader Friday – Grafted into Deceit
This week I’ve read a couple of novella’s I will review next week, and a great romantic suspense by Sherri Wilson Johnson, Grafted into Deceit. Here’s the back cover copy: Disappearing business funds and a missing dead body have Marina Acres doubting everyone — including the detective whose case can’t be solved without her help. When Marina Acres launches an …
Reader Friday – Winter’s Kiss
I have a confession to make. Earlier this month I was reading a fiction book that had been recommended as a good example of writing. It was an excellent example of writing, but it was also very dark and somewhat graphic with the violence. I could not finish it. After years of reading Christian Fiction, I discovered I couldn’t put such a dark …
Reader Friday–Cover Reveal!
A week ago the art department emailed me that I could reveal my book cover…however, the email somehow got lost in the shuffle. I just found it yesterday, so without further ado. . . I LOVE IT!! What do you think? Here’s the back cover copy: It’s Elvis Week in Memphis, and homicide Detective Rachel Sloan isn’t sure her day could get …
Reader Friday – Two Suspense Reviews!
Oh, wow. I’ve read two edge-of-your-seat books this week!! The first one is Nancy Mehl’s Dark Deception and the second one is Christy Barritt’s The Wrecking. Let me tell you about Nancy’s book first. I loved Fatal Frost and had been looking forward to reading Dark Deception. I was not disappointed. Here’s the back cover copy: Kate O’Brien’s quiet life in small-town Shelter Cove, Arkansas is …
Reader Friday – Rick Acker
Oh.My.Goodness. Rick Acker wrote one of my all-time favorite stories–When the Devil Whistles–and now we are featured in the same anthology, The Kill Zone: Ten Deadly Thrillers! His book is Secrets, and the story is full of them. Here’s the back cover blurb and then I’ll give my review: “Everyone has secrets. Silicon Valley billionaire Scott Sherman’s could forever change three …