Thrillers/Suspense/Mystery
FEATURED ARTICLE: The Perfect Recipe…For Murder: Joanne Fluke’s Hannah Swenson Series.
May 26, 2011 | 
Author Both writer and heroine take the cake for ingenuity and deadly fun as Hannah, a small town baker in the Midwest turns up the heat in the search for her friend’s murderer.
Merging good food and great murder mysteries, Joanne, a nationally bestselling author keeps you guessing on the “who done it” while tantalizing your taste buds with at least six fantastic recipes per book. Growing up in the Midwest herself, gave Joanne invaluable insight into the quirky characters and plots. Set in the fictional town of Lake Eden, Minnesota, the Hanna Swenson Series gives no rest to the wicked. There are fourteen fabulous food mysteries available to satisfy the most voracious appetite, and Joanne doesn’t end the menu there. You can find a listing and description of all her books at www.murdershebaked.com.
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FEATURED ARTICLE: Anna DeStefano—A Dynamic Force
Award winning and National Bestselling Anna DeStefano debuted in 2004 and since then has publish over FOURTEEN award winning novels. No small feat for a wife and mother, but then during that time she was also was president of Georgia Romance Writers, a group of over three hundred authors and aspiring writers, taught writing workshops to over sixty groups, plus continued aspects of her corporate career, and played competitive tennis for starters. There are those who’d say they’d expect nothing less from this Georgia Tech honors graduate and IT guru. Can I just say dynamic again?
I for one just stand in awe and say “You go, Girl!” because the story doesn’t end there. Anna writes romance, romantic suspense, and paranormal romantic suspense with a gripping emotional edge that has her readers clinging to the pages of her books. Innovative concepts and unexpected twists and turns keep your heart racing and your pulse pounding in a world where dreams are used as weapons and who you think you can trust is the one person you need to fear the most.
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FEATURED ARTICLE: First Rate All the Way: Forced to Kill By Andrew Peterson
You name it Andrew Peterson delivers it in Forced to Kill, book two in his Nathan McBride series. First rate thriller. First rate killer. First rate hero. First rate author. “Absolutely bone-chilling,” “Brilliantly plotted,” are just two of the adjectives NYT Bestseller Brad Thor uses to describe Forced to Kill.
Andrew’s talent to make scenes real and to dig deep into the emotions of his characters by giving them hard choices keeps a reader on the edge of his seat through every action packed page. Nathan McBride is an unforgettable hero with strengths and vulnerabilities that drive him to the brink and beyond to get the job done.
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“The Brotherhood of the Blood” series by Kathryn Smith
Already a fan of Kathryn Smith’s historical romance treats it was no surprise to discover that her vampire series “The Brotherhood of the Blood” was just as addicting.
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FEATURED ARTICLE: A Thrill Ride Like No Other – Lee Baker and the Speed of Light
Futuristic technology collides with edge of your seat suspense in the novel Speed of Light by Lee Baker. Coming in May 2011, this action-packed, intelligent novel is intricately layered with mind expanding concepts that will take your imagination to new levels.
Lee comes from a unique storytelling background. He is the President of Sandman Studios, a visual effects and animation company, has a degree in English and has taught both writing and digital video editing classes at the university level. Lee penned two illustrated books. The first, Humbug A Christmas Carol came out September 1, 2010 and sold out before Christmas:
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2010 Highlight: Barry Eisler On Taking Books to Film
Having my first book, Rain Fall, made into a movie last year by Sony Pictures Japan was a great experience. Fascinating and fun. I visited the set, which was very cool; I met Gary Oldman and Akira Emoto, two actors I like a lot; and I attended the premiere, which was a blast. If you want to know more, here’s my writeup of the premiere in Tokyo; photos of set and the premiere; and a short video of the premiere (if you can stand my mangled Japanese).
2010 HIGHLIGHT: “Cheat the Grave” by Vicki Pettersson
COMING MAY 25, 2010!
The Fifth Sign of the Zodiac
New York Times Bestselling Author Vicki Pettersson deals a winning hand in her Signs of the Zodiac Series. Writing Urban Fantasy at its absolute best, Vicki delves her readers into the secret world of Light and Shadow, where the two factions wage an immortal war in Sin City.
Vicki says: “I hate to say the idea for this series came to me in a dream–it sounds too precious and capricious, like writing is something that comes to you rather than something you have to work for – but that’s exactly how this idea germinated. I woke up laughing, having just imagined a caricature-ishly beautiful woman fending off a leather-clad homicidal maniac with an overpriced stiletto. If you’ve read SCENT you’ll know the scene I mean.”
The kick-ass, adrenaline-pumping series begins with THE SCENT OF SHADOW, where heroine, Joanna Archer learns demons have marked her for their own and dining with a serial killer can be hazardous to one’s health.
FEATURED AUTHOR: Andrew Gross: In A Heartbeat
The mark of great suspense hinges on a heartbeat and New York Times Bestselling author Andrew Gross is a master of the genre. He creates a comfortable ordinary, yet layered, slice of life, one every person imagines themselves living. He grabs a reader with complex, yet ordinary characters. Characters with heart who are men and women just like you and me. Then he rips their world apart in a heartbeat, with edge of your seat, high-octane suspense that you can’t put down.
In New York Times Bestseller, Reckless, Andrew shows us all with chilling clarity just how fragile our financial world is, and how unnervingly vulnerable we all are to the whims of ruthless men who hunger for money and power. Reckless will be released in paperback on February 22, 2011! Hero, Ty Hauck, first introduced in Dark Tide and then in Don’t Look Twice, returns with driving force in Reckless. This time, Andrew takes Ty into the complex world of international finance, where billions are lost or gained on the click of a mouse.
FEATURED ARTICLE: Brad Parks- Nobody Does it Better
EYES OF THE INNOCENT hit the shelves recently and reviewers are raving about book two in the Carter Ross Mystery Series. The envious praise for Brad Parks’ skill at writing both humor and suspense inspired me to do a little investigative reporting myself.
You see, the hero of FACES OF THE GONE and EYES OF THE INNOCENT is Carter Ross, an investigative reporter with a highbrow education and a nose for trouble. Carter is intriguingly described as a dashing six-foot-one man with brown hair and blue eyes, who is funny and brave. So, you can understand why I had to snoop around for the guy, right? I mean what woman can resist such a combination.
I’m still looking for the man, but I did learn that Carter Ross was “born and raised in well-to-do Millburn. He attended some of New Jersey’s finest prep schools then spent four years at Amherst College. Still in his early 30′s, he has landed a plum gig: Investigative reporter at The Newark Eagle-Examiner, a job that plunges this white-shoe WASP into some of “the seamiest places the city has to offer.”
FEATURED ARTICLE: Jaime Rush-Adrenaline Rush
If you’re looking for a fast pace, hot action, and steamy romance then Offspring is a series you’ll want to plunge headfirst into. Jaime Rush, an author featured in the New York Times bestselling anthology Bitten By Cupid, takes readers deep into a world in where no one is who they seem to be and trust will get you killed.
It is a documented fact that until the mid nineteen-nineties, the US government conducted top secret experiments into psychic phenomena and the use of paranormal gifts in international espionage. Jaime, being an author who really enjoys scary, couldn’t stop herself from wondering what if…
Review: Collateral Damage by J.L. Saint
Let me just say that when I was honored with the invitation to join the stable of extraordinary reviewers of NovelsAlive.tv, it was understood that I would not be reviewing "romance novels." I’m more of a non-fiction and/or military thriller kinda gal. I’m definitely "rough around the edges" and like my reading material to be the same. I have no patience for the "heaving, pearly scoops of pebbling flesh" prose that most romance writers employ. Suffice it to say, when I was asked to read J.L. Saint’s new ebook original, Collateral Damage, by Samhain Publishing, Ltd., I raised an eyebrow at the description "romantic suspense."
Collateral Damage is the first book in Ms. Saint’s "Silent Warrior Series" which intends to feature a military man or woman as the hero or heroine of the story. The first few books in the series involve members of a Delta Team whose mission was to extract high-profile hostages from a radical group in Lebanon. The mission goes bad, leaving a swath of physical and emotional destruction amid the survivors.
FEATURED ARTICLE: AJ Tata: A Hero to Follow
Blasting onto the military thriller scene with lethal force is A.J. Tata, the author of, so far, three gripping books about Matt and Zachary Garrett, brothers, soldiers, leaders, and heroes that are worth following through every nail-biting, pulse pounding page of Tata’s action packed books.
Before I tell you about Sudden Threat, Rogue Threat, and Hidden Threat, let me tell you about the man, the hero, behind the books. Anthony J. Tata is not only a dynamic author but he is a man who spends every day doing his best to serve. After graduating from the United States Military Academy in 1981, he spent twenty-eight years in the Army and retired a Brigadier General in 2009 with a long list of accomplishments, accolades, and honors. He then went on to serve the public by working for the Washington D.C. school district, and in 2011, he will take on the job of Superintendent for Wake County Schools in North Carolina. He has a vision to put education in America back on the right track and is dedicated to effecting change in education one small step at a time.
