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Before you even begin writing your novel, you need to know who your characters will be. Minimally, you would want two major characters, the hero and the heroine. They will interact mostly with each o…
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Eye of the Red Tsar: A Novel of Suspense by Sam Eastland Before the Revolution in two steps, Tsar Nicholas Romanov trusted his brilliant Finnish born investigator Pekkala to solve impossible cases. However, in the Summer of 1917, the great detective became Prisoner 4745-P exiled to spend the rest of his life for crimes against
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Promised Land (A Spenser Novel) by Robert B. Parker Promised Land like many a detective story before it begins with a fairly simple missing persons case. PI Spenser is hired by a suburban businessman to find his missing wife. As things progress the plot takes a dramatic shift in two different directions when the missing
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The Dolphin People by Torsten Krol I was very curious about what direction this book was going to take. Was it going to be a book about Nazis? The part of the story about the tribe believing that the members of the Linden family were dolphins in human form seemed kind of odd in the
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The Adamantine Palace (MEMORY OF FLAMES) by Stephen Deas Dragons have always been a staple in fantasy fiction. When I was a little girl I always associated dragons with tales of valiant knights who slay the dragon to save the fair princess. Kind of like “Shrek,” but without the happy ending for the dragon. When
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The Dragon Factory by Jonathan Maberry REVIEW SUMMARY: Joe Ledger is back, he’s mad, and ready to take on genetically enhanced humans, animals and anything in between. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: In this follow up to the Bram Stoker nominated Patient Zero, Joe Ledger and the Department of Military Sciences team fight two sets of related genetic
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Retromancer by Robert Rankin Retromancer returns us to the adventures of Rizla and that paragon of perfection, Hugo Rune. The story begins with young Rizla awakening to discover that not only has the past been changed by evil forces and the Nazis have won the war, but he is also now expected to get a
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Jack Wakes Up by Seth Harwood Jack Wakes Up is a thrill-a-minute crime novel. It isn’t perfect, but it is the very definition of fun. Buried beneath the coke, gangsters, crooked cops, car chases, and gunfire is a rather engrossing story about a man’s struggle to make ends meet by any means necessary and finding
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You’ve done it. You’ve gone and written the next Great American Novel. Shockingly, some dolt at a publishing house has actually recognized your brilliance. This is it. The big time! There’s only one problem … nobody is buying your novel.
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Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde Jasper Fforde has always been a smart and entertaining writer, equally comfortable in the worlds of literature and storytelling, with an understated sense of humor and a taste for twisting reality to suit his fictional purposes. But with Shades of Grey he’s taken a big step forward, presenting a
Ice Cold by Andrea Maria Schenkel