THE BETTER LIAR: Tanen Jones Delves Into a Story About Sisterhood and Maternal Drive in Her Debut Thriller

I’ve added this one to my stack as I love sister stories. I’ll let you know what I think!

Bloody Creek Murder, A Winston Radhauser Mystery 6, Susan Clayton-Goldner

Another great novel I have to read! Now on my TBR pile. A great way to spend the summer–reading!

Jeannie Zelos Book Reviews

Bloody Creek Murder, A Winston Radhauser Mystery 6, Susan Clayton-Goldner

General Fiction (Adult), Mystery and thrillers.

Well, by now Radhauser is feeling a bit like an old friend. I know if ever I had need of the police I want someone like him on the case. He’s moral, dedicated but not one of those folk who want to find someone to blame, anyone will do, for him it needs to be the right person.
This book shows too well the pressures the police often face by the media to find a culprit, but like Radhauser I feel finding the actual person who did the crime is important, not just someone to keep the police looking good in the eyes of the media. In this day though, when appearance is all, when money, elections, voting and popularity are so important its simple to be sucked in and take the easy route…

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July’s Hottest Thriller Releases

Ludwig does it again–makes my reading pile totter and threaten to fall! But what a fall. What thrillers! Hot summer nights and these novels. Got it?

HOW QUICKLY SHE DISAPPEARS – Raymond Fleischmann

Review of TEMPER CA–Heartbreaking & Healing

Heartbreaking & Healing: a tale of love & loss in a small California town

Joy rolls into Temper CA, back to the town she both loves and hates and doesn’t understand, for her grandfather Isaac’s funeral. This universal tale of angst and confusion revolves around the relationship Joy had with her mother and father, hippies of the 70s who lived in one house with their friends and did the usual of the period—slept together, drank, built their shared house, took acid, and brought their child up to live free and discover life with little guidance.

The complications that arise are microscopic and macroscopic, from dealing with the secrets and truths of her upbringing as a child and why she went back and forth to live with her grandparents, to the larger issues of economic disparity and race.

Award-winning author Paul Skenazy draws us into Joy’s story with language that alternately soothes and upsets. The short chapters create suspense and tension as Joy pieces her life together, finding truths that keep her from being at peace with herself and her girlfriend Angie. As many of us who came from small towns can relate, Temper, CA introduced Joy to a family she thought she knew, but didn’t. My heart hurt for her when she realized she’d created her own past, and she wished things had been different not only for herself but for those she loved, and even those she thought she hated.

A brilliant novel, deserving of all accolades and our reading pleasure.

Paul Skenazy’s website:

https://www.paulskenazy.com/

 

REVENGE IN 3 PARTS – Valerie J. Brooks

I can’t thank Ludwig enough. Not only for his review of my noir novel but for keeping me up-to-date with the latest thrillers. He knows his craft (and what he loves), and I wonder what would happen if he applied what he knows to writing his own thriller. What do you say, Ludwig?