Where Fiction and Reality Meet
It could be curtains for college theatre professor Nicky Abbondanza. With dead bodies popping up all over campus, Nicky must use his drama skills to figure out who is playing the role of murderer before it is lights out for Nicky and his colleagues. Complicating matters is Nicky’s huge crush on Noah Oliver, a gorgeous... Continue Reading →
Title: Sudden Love (Lakehouse Security: Book One) Author: April Kelley Publisher: eXtasy Books Pages/Word Count: 95 Pages At a Glance: Sudden Love is the type of book you really don’t have to think too hard about; it has humor, a little mystery, hot guys with guns, and plenty of sex. Reviewed By: Maryann Blurb: When... Continue Reading →
Title: The Last Guy Breathing Author: Skylar M. Cates Narrator:: Matt Baca Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 8 Hours and 53 Minutes At a Glance: Matt Baca has a really nice voice, but there needed to be more to Locke’s characterization. Reviewed By: Maryann Blurb: Henry Clueley doesn’t want to be in Glamour, not after... Continue Reading →
Title: The Best Corpse for the Job Author: Charlie Cochrane Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 298 Pages At a Glance: More mystery than romance, and a little slow paced for my tastes. Reviewed By: Jennifer Blurb: Schoolteacher Adam Matthews just wants to help select a new headteacher and go home. The governors at Lindenshaw St... Continue Reading →
Title: The Recording Room Author: Iyana Jenna Publisher: JMS Books Pages/Word Count: 61 Pages At a Glance: The Recording Room is a short story that had promise, but it needed cleaned up a bit. Reviewed By: Angel Blurb: Lucian Salvatore returns to Clover East after his grandmother calls him home to take care of the... Continue Reading →
Title: Lessons for Suspicious Minds (A Cambridge Fellows Mystery) Author: Charlie Cochrane Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 258 Pages At a Glance: I highly recommend this book and will buy and read the next in the series to see what mystery the author has for us next. Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: 1909 In the innocent... Continue Reading →
The Novel Approach welcomes Charlie Cochrane on the Lessons for Suspicious Minds blog tour. Enjoy Charlie's interview, then be sure to leave a comment right here for the chance to win a title from Charlie Cochrane's backlist (excluding Lessons for Survivors). Entries close at midnight, Eastern time, on April 25, 2015. Contest is NOT restricted... Continue Reading →
Title: Nights Like These Author: Chris Scully Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 200 Pages At a Glance: I gladly recommend this book to those who love mysteries and romance with a touch of humor. Reviewed By: Kim Blurb: Starting over sucks. At forty, Miles Koprowski thought he had life all figured out. He had a... Continue Reading →
Title: Trowchester Blues Author: Alex Beecroft Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 273 Pages At a Glance: Trowchester England is a marvelous fictional city I would love to visit in person – especially a certain little bookshop with a green painted door and a knocker shaped like a giant squid! Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: Michael May... Continue Reading →
The Novel Approach welcomes author Ethan Stone on the blog tour for the re-release of In the Flesh, with DSP Publications. Enjoy Ethan's guest post, then be sure to click on the Rafflecopter widget below to enter for a chance to win an e-copy of a book from Ethan's Backlist, winner's choice. Good luck! Mystery... Continue Reading →
The Novel Approach welcomes Alex Beecroft today on the Blue Eyed Stranger blog tour. Every comment on this blog tour enters you in a draw for a $15 Riptide gift card, so be sure to leave one below. Entries close at midnight, Eastern time, on April 11. Contest is NOT restricted to U.S. entries. Don't... Continue Reading →
Title: Infected: Paris Author: Andrea Speed Publisher: DSP Publications Pages/Word Count: 120 Pages At a Glance: This book is nothing less than a gift to the series’ faithful readers. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: In a world where a werecat virus has changed society, Roan McKichan, a born infected and ex-cop, works as a private detective... Continue Reading →
Title: A Wedding to Die For Author: Xavier Mayne Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 250 Pages At a Glance: Once again, Xavier Mayne has won me over and entertained me Blurb: A Brandt and Donnelly Caper: Book Three When a high-profile gay celebrity couple asks two of the city’s most established vendors to provide cake... Continue Reading →
Title: Death Claims (A Dave Brandstetter Mystery: Book Two) Author: Joseph Hansen Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Pages/Word Count: 170 Pages At a Glance: Fast pace and a taut plot make for masterful storytelling Blurb: Death Claims is the second of Joseph Hansen's acclaimed mysteries featuring ruggedly masculine Dave Brandstetter, a gay insurance investigator. When... Continue Reading →
Title: The Last Guy Breathing Author: Skylar M. Cates Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 254 Pages At a Glance: Great couple, good mystery, unconvincing procedural Blurb: Henry Clueley doesn’t want to be in Glamour, not after moving far away to overcome a difficult, if privileged, childhood. He’s no longer that pudgy kid desperate to escape... Continue Reading →
GENRE TALK with Carole Cummings Hey, all! Lisa went and left the door unlocked again, so here I am! And I've dragged fellow DSPP author A.J. Marcus with me to leave cigar burns in Lisa's furniture and drink all her beer talk about Mystery! (As in: who left cigar burns in Lisa's couch and drank... Continue Reading →
Title: Buck Baxter, Love Detective Author: Geoffrey Knight Publisher: Wilde City Press Pages/Word Count: 90 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Welcome to Wilde City, 1924—a crane on top of every skyscraper, a party in every club, a romance on every dance floor, a shooting every night, a broken heart on every street corner and a... Continue Reading →
Title: The Glass-House Murder Author: T. Nielson Publisher: JMS Books Pages/Word Count: 156 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Meet Lord Henry Carlisle: gentleman, wastrel, and mystery-novel lover. When his mother telephones him on a May evening to tell him they've just discovered a body in the glass-house, Hal does what he loves to do: he... Continue Reading →
Title: Repossession Is 9/10ths of the Law Author: Hank Edwards Publisher: Wilde City Press Pages/Word Count: Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Alan Baxter barely scrapes by working as a deejay in suburban Detroit. To make ends meet, he takes a job as an automobile repossession agent, and discovers his very first assignment is a car owned... Continue Reading →
Title: Repossession Is 9/10ths of the Law Author: Hank Edwards Publisher: Wilde City Press Pages/Word Count: Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Alan Baxter barely scrapes by working as a deejay in suburban Detroit. To make ends meet, he takes a job as an automobile repossession agent, and discovers his very first assignment is a car owned... Continue Reading →
Greetings Everyone! I'm Michael Kudo the author formally/informally known as Michael Chulsky. I'm here by the graciousness of the lovelies at TNA to introduce you to Alex Rose, the main character of my newest novel Red Rose (Blood), the first in The Deadly Rose Series. And I couldn't think of a better way to do... Continue Reading →
Greetings Everyone! I'm Michael Kudo the author formally/informally known as Michael Chulsky. I'm here by the graciousness of the lovelies at TNA to introduce you to Alex Rose, the main character of my newest novel Red Rose (Blood), the first in The Deadly Rose Series. And I couldn't think of a better way to do... Continue Reading →
TNA: Hi, Geoff, thanks so much for visiting with us at The Novel Approach today. Why don’t we start by having you share a bit about yourself? Geoff: Thanks so much for having me, I always love coming to The Novel Approach. For those who don’t know me, Hi, I’m Geoff. I’m an author and... Continue Reading →
TNA: Hi, Geoff, thanks so much for visiting with us at The Novel Approach today. Why don’t we start by having you share a bit about yourself? Geoff: Thanks so much for having me, I always love coming to The Novel Approach. For those who don’t know me, Hi, I’m Geoff. I’m an author and... Continue Reading →
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