Yesterday I released a 3-book boxed set of my Bob Burke Action-Adventure Series. Now, you can get the whole saga, all three books in one edition, and at a 33 percent discount from the normal Kindle prices. Together, they have a 4.6 Star rating and 482 Five-Star reviews. The box set contains Burke’s War, Burke’s Gamble, and Burke’s Revenge. Think […]
Suspense Fiction
My Writing Blog – What to do with Pneumonia.
Thriller Book Reviews – I’ve been struggling with a bout of pneumonia for ten days and too tired to keep hacking away on the draft of my next novel; so, I set it aside and dove into my Kindle Fire, where I found Michael Connelly’s “The Crossing,”, Lee Child’s “A Wanted Man”, and Daniel Silva’s […]
The Heist – Book Review – Daniel Silva’s spy novel
The Heist – Daniel Silva’s Gabriel Allon stories are always entertaining and he’s one of the best writer of spy novels in the business, but I’m beginning to have three bones to pick with his story telling. First, too many of his books have the same “let’s get her alone and talk her into betraying […]
The Racketeer by John Grisham – Book Review
The Racketeer, by John Grisham. He Is usually the master of the southern legal thriller, with well-known and best-selling books and films such as “The Firm,” “The Pelican Brief,” “A Time to Kill,” “The Client,” “The Runaway Jury,” “The Chamber,” and many more. “The Racketeer” is one of the newer books in that fine line. […]
Silence of the Lambs – From Novel to Screenplay to Movie
The suspense thriller Silence of the Lambs — whether you look at the novel written by Thomas Harris in 1988, the working screenplay and storybook by Ted Tally from 1990, the resulting movie directed by Jonathan Demme in 1991, or the magical performances of its lead actors, all of those pieces come together to make […]
Book Review – “First To Kill” by Peterson – Action Adventure
“First to Kill” is the first book in what is now a four book series of action adventure thriller novels from Andrew Peterson featuring the lead character, Nathan McBride. He is a cerebral CIA Special Ops contractor and ex-Marine sniper who is still healing from an earlier mission that went badly wrong. McBride gets called […]
Book Review – “Deadly Stillwater” suspense fiction by Roger Stelljes
Deadly Stillwater is the third book of what is currently a five-book series of police, action-adventure suspense fiction set in St. Paul, Minnesota. No doubt, there will be more to come. Although series books are very much in vogue these days; I usually dislike them, because they all-too-often cheat the reader. I feel a story should […]