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NEW REVIEW Karen Victoria Smith's Dark Dealings
In Karen Victoria Smith's urban fantasy, [amazon-product text=”Dark Dealings” type=”text”]B007Z9DEEI[/amazon-product], the mystical world overlaps reality through sabotage, murder and magic. Investment banker Micaela O'Brien has spent her entire life trying to forget the day her parent's plane exploded over northern Dublin leaving her to explain how she was the sole survivor of the tragic event.…
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Review of Karen Wyle's Science Fiction Novel Twin Bred
In Karen Wyle's science fiction novel, [amazon-product text=”Twin Bred” type=”text”]B005VDVHQ2[/amazon-product], humans have been living on a distant planet called Tofran for seventy years and have yet to find a way to communicate with the native species, the Tofa. The Tofa don't communicate through words, their faces are featureless so reading their expressions is out of…
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New Review of the Serial Bone Wires by Michael Shean
When I last reviewed Michael Shean's Bone Wires, a cyberpunk noir featured weekly on Curiosity Quills, Detective Daniel Gray had just found the first homicide victim missing his spine. Now in its fifteenth week, two more bodies were discovered with their spines removed adding pressure on Gray to solve the case. Since the beginning of…
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Review of Only the Innocent by Rachel Abbott
Rachel Abbott's Only the Innocent is not your average who dunnit murder mystery. The question that drives this thriller is not who did it, but why”. Abbott carefully constructed a world of mystery, depravity, sex, violence, manipulation and intrigue on so many different levels that I can honestly say you truly have to read…
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Review of Headhunters by Charlie Cole
In Charlie Cole's [amazon-product text=”Headhunters” type=”text”]B006CVIAJE[/amazon-product], Simon Parks is one of the best headhunters at Blackthorn, an antiterrorist cell operating outside the confines of the US government. But after losing his wife in a tragic car accident Simon relocates his family in hopes of leaving behind the spy game and focusing his attention on his…