Do you have to hand in your hipster card if you love
film noir? This is the serious love affair my protagonist Steele Hill confesses
to in the short story Lady Madonna Meets
the Martians. http://amzn.to/1H0fPdf
In the 1990s, 20-something Hill
scours video shops for noir classics and when caught watching the vids at home
has to explain his abnormal behaviour.
Twenty years on, are we noir
lovers to be even more pitied or have the hipsters caught up with the joys of
black and white crime films?
I TRY
not to trouble myself unduly with matters of commerce.
For
five days next week, I am giving away my enovel Iraqi Icicle. I do this not because I think it makes a lot of
commercial sense but because others tell me it does.
It
seems the Amazon algorithms will discover me this way.
This review is from: Iraqi Icicle 2nd edition (Kindle Edition)
"Iraqi Icicle" is definitely not your average run of the mill crime drama. Oddly, there are very few categories where a book could be listed that I can't imagine this fitting in some way or another. While this book does have a hefty dose of profanity, there were times when I felt it added to the story and other times when it made me laugh.
This is a hard book to describe without accidentally giving something away as there is so much going on underneath the cover. Steele Hill is a character that I felt had the correct amount of inner turmoil and personality that made him not only fun to read, but memorable. There were some good secondary characters in this book too, but Steele definitely steals the show. This author certainly has a sense of how to keep his reader in suspense. This book deals with some hardcore subjects, but I thought the author did so in a way that made it exciting to read.
This book is gritty and a little dangerous and if you are in for a seat of your pants kind of ride this might just be the thing. Be careful though, I have warned you that this is not your grandma's fireside novel!
RELUCTANT psychic Detective Trudy Harper is back with her paranormal “gifts’’ stronger
but still beyond the conscious control of the young woman.
Vision II: The Reluctant
Psychic Returns follows the popular series debut which gathered
reader praise including favorable comparisons with hit television shows, The Mentalist, Law & Order and Medium.
Vision
II starts with Lucky Luke in which
Trudy is specifically signaled out by a spirit for the first time. The Spirit
does not know Trudy is a cop but he has been told she is the only one who can
save his beloved grandson from a cold, lonely death.
The Price of Freedom is the
harrowing and unusual tale of a kidnapping. A rich girl’s life hangs by a
thread and her only chance at salvation is with her tattered teddy bear.
Trudy
Harper is funny and flirtatious at the beginning of Walking a Fine Line but an ethical call on her part could cost her
a career. Walking a Fine Line is a
sophisticated suspenseful tale.
Forever My Child is a
signature story from Jane Sharp. White terror invades domesticity. The ending
will stay with you for a long time.
In
Changes, death becomes personal and Trudy
is alone at the crossroads of not just her career but her very life.
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