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Title: Havoc (The Moonshine Task Force: Special Edition), #3 

Author: Laramie Briscoe

Genre: Small Town Contemporary Romance 

Release Date: January 27, 2023 

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From USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling author, Laramie Briscoe, comes the special edition of a fan favorite series.

Nobody writes blue collar romance like Laramie Briscoe, and nowhere is it more apparent than in the Moonshine Task Force: Special Edition Series. This edition includes a never-before-released short story, as well as all the slices of life scenes and text messages I've written for this couple.

When a marriage of convenience turns into the passion of a lifetime…

Holden “Havoc” Thompson

My job as the leader of the Moonshine Task Force is my life. I eat, breathe, and sleep it. The men under my command mean the world to me. Knowing they count on my guidance has kept my demons at bay for longer than I care to admit. The control I have over myself is an iron fist that sometimes threatens to squeeze the life out of me. What I want more than anything is to live again – let go of the hurt smothering every bit of light I have in this darkness. I don’t expect it to come in the form of a Moonshiner’s daughter needing my protection.

Leighton Strather

My whole life has been defined by who my family is. In the state of Alabama, we’re number one with a target on our backs. The danger and prestige isn’t for me. I don’t care about the money, and I care too much about the families we’ve ruined. My brother and my dad are proud of it. They wear their arrest records like a badge of honor. Me? I want as far away from the lifestyle as I can get. It’s the only reason I ask Holden to marry me. At least that's what I tell myself. I never expect his whispered yes to cause such upheaval in my life. Even though I resist, I learn some havoc is good – and this one? It’s a whirlwind of lust, hope, and love and all I can do is let it sweep me away.

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Laramie Briscoe is the USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of over 30 books, with sales of over half a million copies.

Since self-publishing her first book in May of 2013, Laramie has appeared on the Top 100 Bestselling E-books Lists on Apple Books, Amazon Kindle, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble. Her books have been known to make readers laugh and cry. They are guaranteed to be emotional, steamy reads.

When she's not writing alpha males who seriously love their women, she loves spending time with friends, reading, and marathoning shows on Netflix. Married to her high school sweetheart, Laramie lives in Bowling Green, KY with her husband.

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Book Title: Caledon

Series: Caledon (Book One)

Author: Virginia Crow

Publication Date: 22nd January 2019

Publisher: Crowvus

Page Length: 180 (A4 size) – the book is approx. 80,000 words

Genre: Historical Fantasy

"Go out and tell all those you meet, Caledon has risen. Caledon will be protected and defended. And to you who would cause her harm, be prepared. A new fight has come."

After the destruction of the Jacobite forces at Culloden, Scotland is divided, vulnerable and leaderless, with survivors from both sides seeking to make sense of the battles they have fought against their fellow Scots.

James Og flees Drumossie, seeking the protection of his uncle's house in Sutherland. It is here that James learns that the Northern Highlands hold a secret power only he can wield Caledon. When Ensign John Mackay begins hunting Og's family, James realises he must harness this power to defeat the enemies of Scotland.

But, as the ageless Caledon awakes, so too does an ancient evil. When it allies with Mackay, the small Clan of Caledon faces enemies at every turn, discovering that even those closest to them may seek to destroy them.

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Virginia grew up in Orkney, using the breath-taking scenery to fuel her imagination and the writing fire within her. Her favourite genres to write are fantasy and historical fiction, sometimes mixing the two together. She enjoys swashbuckling stories such as The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas and is still waiting for a screen adaption that lives up to the book!

 

When she's not writing, Virginia is usually to be found teaching music. She believes wholeheartedly in the power of music, especially as a tool of inspiration. She also helps out with the John o' Groats Book Festival which is celebrating its 4th year.

 

She now lives in the far-flung corner of Scotland. A doting spaniel-owner to Orlando and Jess, Virginia soaks up in inspiration from the landscape as she ventures out with her canine companions.

 

She loves cheese, music, and films, but hates mushrooms.

 

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Stars Like Gasoline
Jessika Grewe Glover

Publication date: April 24th 2023
Genres: Adult, Thriller

When Celia, a Florida art curator, purchases the haunted house of her brother’s deceased fiancé, the spirits threaten her life and her career. To rid the home of the malevolent ghosts, she enlists the help of her brother, Oscar, and Adrian, the best friend of Oscar’s late fiancé, who’d been killed as an Afghanistan veteran. The three are about to be thrown into a chasm of events involving a dead French artist, a Dutch aerospace heiress, and a missing Japanese painter who is presumed to be dead. Not to mention a stalker that begins to threaten Celia and Oscar.

The link between these events appears to be a hidden journal from the 1980s Celia discovers in the home, belonging to a dead, but revered French artist. As Adrian helps decipher the clues, an attraction burns between him and Celia, raising the stakes of the game someone is playing. A game that no one might make it out of alive.

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Jessika Grewe Glover is the author of Another Beast’s Skin, the first book in a contemporary fantasy trilogy. She grew up in Miami dreaming of magic and other realms in which to escape the heat. She currently resides in the Los Angeles area with her British expat husband, two kids, and the world’s fastest bulldog.

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Hello Spain, Goodbye Heart
LoLo Paige

(The Wandering Hearts Series, #1)
Published by: The Wild Rose Press
Publication date: January 23rd 2023
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Travel writer Dayna Benning tours Europe to write a feature story for a travel magazine. Along the way, she helps her bestie scatter her husband’s ashes. When Dayna accidentally sprinkles Alex Mendes with dried rose petals intended for the deceased, she senses a chemistry with the silver fox airline pilot. Just one catch—he wears a wedding band. Embittered by her divorce, Dayna refuses to be a homewrecker, like the woman who ruined her marriage. Alex and Dayna go their separate ways, but she’s mystified when serendipitous signs point her toward him at every turn. Determined to find out why, she learns Alex is a widower. Dayna hopes for a second chance at love…but her resentful heart stops her. Can she forgive those that broke her heart the first time? And for that matter, can she forgive herself for her failed marriage? Unless she finds a way to piece together her fragmented heart, Alex will forever remain a fantasy.

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Romance was the last thing Dayna trolled for, but if it rolled in her direction, she wouldn’t rule out a casual fling. But not with a married guy.

Mariko elbowed Dayna. “I’ve heard a lot of hot older guys hang out on this side of the Atlantic,” she murmured, eyeing another tall, juicy morsel passing by on his way out the restaurant door.

Dayna wrinkled her nose. “Alex is married, in case you haven’t noticed.”

“Oh, I noticed. No law against enjoying eye candy.” Mariko grinned. “You should write a sidebar for your magazine article, ‘How To Meet Cute Guys on a Beach.’ Tessa would love it.”

“Ha, that’d spice up my travel piece.” Dayna’s editor would love it.

“Sprinkling a handsome guy with dead rose petals would be a fresh angle,” reasoned Mariko.

“You think?”

“You’ve had a sniper dot on Alex the whole time. You may as well write about him.”

Alex strolled toward them, and Dayna fantasized a slow-motion movie scene: Arms swinging, he moves toward me, wind teasing his hair, with an I-Want-You-So-Bad expression on his face. His arms scoop me up and he plants a hot, moist kiss on my quivering lips, dissolving me—

The seating hostess snapped Dayna back to reality. “This way, please.”

“Oh!” In her haste to follow, Dayna’s foot caught a chair leg and she tripped. After a sloppy recovery, she limped after the hostess with heated cheeks, to a table for three.

Mariko jerked her head toward Dayna, smiling sweetly at the hostess.

“Don’t mind her. Her name’s Grace.”

LoLo Paige is an award-winning author who has a passion for writing romantic comedies after decades of theatre experience acting in stage comedies. While comedy is her first love, she also writes the pitfalls of falling in love in the action-packed, perilous world of wildfire. As a former wildland firefighter who married her hot firefighter husband, she lives her HEA, spending glorious Alaskan summers at her oceanfront cabin on Kachemak Bay, with her husband and two golden retrievers.

 

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Dead Reckoning by Lea O’Harra Guest Review and Guest Post!

 Publisher: Sharpe Books-UK (Sept 29, 2022)

Category: Crime Fiction, Family Life, Kidnapping

Tour dates: January 5-31, 2023

ISBN: 979-8361831937

ASIN: B0BGYG3HGX

Available in Print and ebook, 289 pages

  

Description Dead Reckoning by Lea O'Harra

Indiana, January 2010.

It’s a hot summer’s day in 1984 when twelve-year-old Gilly and her friend Sally find a dead new-born in a shoebox in the cemetery of their tiny town. Deciding to keep their discovery a secret, they bury the body in Gilly’s yard.

The results are disastrous. Flowers are mysteriously left on strollers. Two local children disappear and end up dead. A suspect is arrested and confesses, blaming the deaths on the girls’ having taken the dead baby.

Gilly grows up but is haunted by what’s happened. As a young woman, she flees the town and its memories, going all the way to Japan.
Returning with her Japanese husband Toshi to attend her mother’s funeral, Gilly finds the past is not past. She’s threatened, and someone is putting flowers on strollers again.

When another child is abducted, Gilly knows she must discover the truth about what happened all those years ago before more lives are lost.

Guest Review by Laura Lee

As children, we all make mistakes, but not all of us make mistakes as big as Gillian Blackstone. As a 12-year-old girl, Gillian discovered a deceased newborn baby that had been placed in a shoebox and left in her town's cemetery. The events that transpired after left her still mentally scarred over 20 years later, and caused her to move across the world to start a life there.

It isn't until she returns home after her mother's death that she begins to understand the full extent of the mistake that she made as a child, and what she must do to rectify it. Instead of calling the police, Gillian and her best friend, Sally decided to take the baby home and bury it under the elm tree in Gillian's yard.

Both Gillian and Sally begin using their amateur detective skills to try and determine who left the baby in the cemetery. It's the kind of mystery that many 12-year-olds would find irresistible, and the two girls are no exception, working down a list of local women until they hit on three possibilities. But when their secret is discovered, it is because of the murder of another local child that causes the police to look closely at Gillian, herself. And what happens next changes the town forever.

Even many years later, Gillian is still terrified of the man that she believes committed the murders in her town. Soon, she begins receiving threats telling her to leave town.

I really enjoyed this novel, and I really appreciated the character of Gillian. Lea O'Harra has a great talent for writing relatable heroines and truly scary villains.

'Dead Reckoning,' is a hit out of the park if you enjoy crime novels, thrillers, or any novel told through dual story lines. Personally, this was a five-star read for me!
I can hardly wait to read more by Lea O’Harra!

Guest Post by Lea O'Harra

Why do you like crime fiction and writing it yourself?

Given the wide variety of subgenres included in what we call ‘crime fiction’ it would be too simplistic to say that I like crime fiction per se. I like some types of crime fiction and not others. Crime fiction includes ‘cozy’ crime, legal and medical thrillers, locked-room, private eye, and spy mysteries, hard-boiled or historical crime fiction, courtroom dramas, police procedurals, the ‘whodunit,’ and so on.  I enjoy reading most of these, but I find books that feature lots of explicit violence and gory scenes can inspire a distaste bordering on horror. They may be ‘realistic’ – but that’s not a realism I care to engage with.

            As reading Sherlock Holmes stories and Agatha Christie’s novels represented my initial foray into the crime fiction genre when I was thirteen or fourteen, it isn’t surprising that my first – and an abiding – preference is for the ‘Golden Age’ classics: Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, of course, but also Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, and many others. They are mostly English writers, reflective of my longstanding love of all things English. Although I’m American – from the Midwest state of Indiana – I’ve always preferred English to American literature. As a child and a teenager, I eagerly perused the English classics – Robert Louis Stevenson, the Brontë sisters, Dickens, Thackeray, and many others. I loved novels set in the British Isles: the settings of misty streets and moors and mountains and windswept coasts; the rainy, foggy weather, the charming pubs, stone cottages, and Victorian terraces, and well-spoken characters who seemed to have mastered the art of living life with grace and wisdom.

            I majored in English literature at Indiana University and went on to do an MA in 18^th-century English literature at Lancaster (in England) and then a doctorate at Edinburgh University on the letters of the 18^th-century English poet Alexander Pope. For diversion, I enjoyed dipping into crime fiction, favoring the works of such authors as PD James, Ruth Rendell, Reginald Hill, and Colin Dexter. I have long had a special fondness for the Maigret series by Georges Simenon. Latterly I’ve also enjoyed Kate Atkinson’s books and those by Ian Rankin.

            Why do I like crime fiction so much? I think it boils down to the fact that what I consider the best of that genre focuses on an examination of the human condition. Naturally, plot is key and setting is important, but the murder mysteries I find most interesting are those that delve into their characters’ psyche: those that examine the situations that can drive a person to that most extreme of acts – depriving another person of life. As the poet Alexander Pope observed, ‘The proper study of mankind is man’. Crime fiction is all about what it means to be a human being.

            I also think the best of crime fiction, like the best of any kind of literature, is a kind of time machine that conveys us to different ages and different places. We can become acquainted with unfamiliar scenery, traditions, customs through reading. We hear the local dialects. We smell the local scents. We see the local sights. Sometimes we’re even treated to the tastes of the local delicacies.

            As for my decision to write crime fiction, I think it’s a natural development of my love of reading. I was a bookworm as a child. I was especially fond not only of famous English books but also of Russian literature. Oddly, I found Russian writers more understandable, their characters more sympathetic, their themes more fascinating, than German, French, or Italian ones. I read – of course, all these ‘foreign’ books in translation. They inspired in me a wish to try my hand at stories, too. I imagine anyone who loves to read harbors a desire, whether conscious or not, to try to write.

I think I should explain now why I embarked on my so-called ‘Inspector Inoue mystery series’. Set in present-day rural Japan, it consists of three books – Imperfect Strangers (2015); Progeny (2016); and Lady First (2017). I began to read and study Japanese literature some twenty years ago, when I became involved in the topic of crime fiction as an academic discipline. Having read and analyzed Japanese crime fiction, I conceived a desire to try to write it myself. I felt thirty-six years’ residence in Japan had made me sufficiently aware of the manners and mode of thought of the Japanese to allow me to make my protagonist a Japanese chief of police in a small town on the island of Kyushu. I have been especially gratified by the reviews of my three ‘Japanese novels’ which observe that their greatest value or attraction lay in the way they ‘explain’ Japan and the Japanese to Westerners unfamiliar with that exotic country and its inhabitants.

I have just completed a standalone murder mystery set in small-town America. Writing it has been a cathartic exercise. I based that fictional setting on my own tiny hometown in the northwest corner of Indiana. Composing it felt like exorcising ghosts of my own past.

Reading and writing crime fiction has been an education as well as a form of enjoyment and entertainment. It’s made me more aware of the dark corners of the human psyche, of my own weaknesses and faults, but equally of the powers of reason and kindness which can help us to overcome evil in ourselves and others.  

           © Lea O’Harra

Awards Lea O'Harra

Autumn 2017 “Lady First” was awarded ‘finalist’ status in the crime fiction section of the Beverly Hill Book Awards.

‘Lady First’ was also a finalist in the National Indie Excellence Awards in 2018.

Lea O’Harra has published three crime fiction novels set in rural modern-day Japan: Imperfect Strangers (2015); Progeny (2016); and Lady First (2017). These comprise the so-called ‘Inspector Inoue Murder Mystery’ series originally published by Endeavour Press (UK). She has also had a story included in Best Asian Crime Fiction published by Kitaab Press (Singapore) in 2020. In the spring of 2022 Sharpe Books reissued the Inoue mystery series and, in September 2022, published Lea O’Harra’s fourth novel, Dead Reckoning, a stand-alone set in her tiny hometown in the American Midwest. 

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Dancing with the Devil by Matthew Jones Blog Tour!

 

Dancing with the Devil

A wealthy oligarch, a failing business and a man who sacrificed everything for one final shot at freedom.

When Danny accepts a job from wealthy Conrad Szekely to spy on his business partner, Jerry, he finds himself with a world of trouble. Within days of Danny’s arrival, the business is destroyed in a catastrophic fire, which also claims Jerry’s life.

Torn between conflicting interests, Danny starts to suspect that Jerry’s business had been anything but straightforward and finds himself trapped in a spiral of treachery and lies, which rapidly begins to degenerate into a cat and mouse chase across the fens.

With former allies turning violently against him, Danny tries to solve the mystery that surrounds Jerry’s death. But can Danny find the answers when those answers themselves prove lethal?

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The Newlywed by Anna Willett Book Review! @AnnaWillett9 @annawillettauthor.

Detectives dig deep to discover what happened to a lost bride.

After travelling to the breezy seaside town of Seabreak with her new husband to meet his twin brother, Jane Wilson vanishes without a trace.

There is never any sign of her again, and despite blame initially being cast on the husband, with no evidence of a crime, nothing is done.

Years later, Detective Inspector Veronika Pope and her team at the Special Crime Squad reinvestigate the disappearance.

What really drove Jane to return to the town? And what made sure she would never leave?

Detective Pope is convinced the town and its windy dunes hold the secrets, but she is faced with the grim determination of others to keep them buried forever…

THE NEWLYWED is Anna Willett’s latest suspenseful mystery. It can be read on its own, or alongside two other books featuring Detective Veronika Pope, THE WOMAN BEHIND HER and THE FAMILY MAN.

Anna Willett is the author of several other thrillers published by THE BOOK FOLKS. In order of publication, they are as follows:

BACKWOODS RIPPER
RETRIBUTION RIDGE
UNWELCOME GUESTS
FORGOTTEN CRIMES
CRUELTY’S DAUGHTER
VENGEANCE BLIND
SMALL TOWN NIGHTMARE
COLD VALLEY NIGHTMARE
SAVAGE BAY NIGHTMARE
PEST
BEAST
DEAR NEIGHBOUR
LOST TO THE LAKE

Raised in Western Australia Anna developed a love for fiction at an early age and began writing short stories in high school. Drawn to dark tales, Anna enjoys writing thrillers with strong female characters. When she’s not writing, Anna enjoys reading, travelling and spending time with her husband and two children.

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My Thoughts

The Newlywed by Anna Willette is the third book in the Detective Veronika Pope series, it can be read alone or in order, your choice.

In the town of Seabreak, Jane Wilson goes with her new husband Richard to meet his twin Ed. The night they arrive, they have a discussion where Jane tells Richard that she may have witnessed a murder when she was younger, along the beach in the dunes. She is very upset but Richard brushes it off, telling her it most likely was a dream. The next morning Jane is gone, never to be seen again.

Years later, the case is opened up again and with Detective Veronika Pope leading the investigation, the reader learns that this case is among others of missing young women. 

The reader is introduced to various members of the task force, but it is Detective Pope is the force behind the investigation. They need to find and interview or reinterview, whatever the case of all the people that had been interviewed in the past. Lots of shady characters, some willing to talk but most do not want to. Why though? What are they hiding? 

There are a lot of twists and turns to this psychological thriller, written with experience and knowledge of how investigations work. I found the book to be very interesting, I do like a good thriller. Even though I had not read the first two in the series, I found it was easy to get to know the characters. I think if you love a good murder mystery, then this one is one to add to your collection.

I give it 5 stars!

I received a copy for review purposes only.