It is summer again on Sea Haven, NJ and things start innocently enough. Danny Boyle is now a full time police officer and remains partnered with John Ceepak. As Ceepak finds romance, Danny’s babe, Kate has left and moved to California. With Katie gone, Danny is coping as best he can, often finding just something […]

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For J. P.  Beaumont of the Washington State Attorney General’s Special Homicide Investigation Team, the latest body might be the break in the case they have needed. Up until now the charred remains of several young Hispanic women have been missing their teeth making identification impossible. The latest body found in the melting snow near […]

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We’ve all played the waiting game – that inevitable time period between putting that first word on our eagerly awaited book-to-be to the time it finally becomes published.J.R. Hauptman, author of The Target: Love, Death and Airline Deregulation, waited twenty years for his book to be published. He began the book about five years after […]

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In late March, 1954, two cousins found a cave in the Judean desert, west of the Dead Sea. Bedouins, the teen boys, believed the cave to be full of treasure. The boys knew of a promise made by the sheikh that whoever brought back home treasures of antiquity would get to go with the sheikh […]

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Congress has censored the gentleman (?) who interrupted the President’s speech last week by shouting Liar.
Good for them.
One of the most terrible things about politics during the Bush administration was that those who should have known better winked at the harsh and even paranoid voices that shouted hatred at him personally. And, alas, now it […]

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Having won the 2009 Spur Award from the Western Writers of America for the preceding novel in the series, “Another Man’s Moccasins,” Craig Johnson makes the latest Sheriff Walt Longmire mystery another interesting and good read. Wade Basard, a wealthy rancher in Campbell County, Wyoming was killed approximately ten days ago as the novel opens. […]

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It has been nearly a year since the events depicted in “Singularity” and only now is Lieutenant Sarah Armstrong somewhat ready to return to work as a criminal profiler for the legendary law enforcement organization Texas Rangers. Her time at the ranch outside of Houston, Texas with her Mom, her daughter Maggie and the horses […]

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April Alive?
 
It can’t be possible that their foster daughter, April, who died in the botched raid of the soverign cult as described in “Winter Kill”, could be alive.  It’s been six years and the family of Game Warden Joe Pickett, his wife Marybeth, daughters Lucy and Sheridan has moved on though a lot of trouble […]

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Ginger Rae Reddy practices law in the city of Port Grace, located somewhere along the northeastern seaboard hard against the Atlantic. A city that, like herself, has seen tough times and still sees them and yet survives despite all odds. Ginger Rae is practicing Family Law these days which is primarily about the final collapse […]

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Ellie Bernstein likes to clip coupons and watch police shows when she isn’t doing her things as leader of a local chapter of “weight winners” or reading a complex mystery novel. That is, when she isn’t helping out her boyfriend, Lieutenant Peter Miller of the Colorado Springs Police Dept. These days find her also babysitting […]

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  In Breathing Water, the  third book of the series featuring ex-pat writer Poke Rafferty, the reader is treated to a visit to Bangkok to witness the delicate intricacies of the social and political system of Thailand, not always a pretty sight.
The story begins when Rafferty wins a most unusual prize in a late-night poker […]

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I love to read and simply devour books – good ones, bad ones, long ones, short ones – it doesn’t matter to me.  I will read them all.  I also come from the school of mind that believes that children do not read enough.  Whatever it takes to get them to read more, it’s completely […]

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I’m not above liking a good fantasy story every now and again.  I would rather deal with space or the future or a dystopia, but some fantasy stories are magnificent – no doubt about it.  One certainly thinks about J.R.R. Tolkien, but there have been others as well.  In short, there’s nothing intrinsically bad about […]

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In the midst of the Depression, California beckons as a place to find financial security and a better life, so Marshall Lawe, who lost his job as a constable in Peony Springs, Massachusetts, packs up and heads west. As he put it, the town dried up and his job with it.
As he’s driving along a […]

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I love Lindsay Lohan, or at least I used to.  We watched her as she was growing up and there was great expectation as she grew closer and closer to turning eighteen.  Of course, it would not really make any difference at all to those of us doing the countdown.  For a while there, she […]

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I grew up watching this movie.  See, I come from the era in which Adam Sandler is one of the true comedians and hilarious people.  I watched him on Saturday Night Live and I watched as he switched over to movies.  He was one of the constants in my life when it came to humor.  […]

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I had not even heard of this movie until I was in college.  Evidently, it’s one of the favorites of my roommate and so we rented it one night.  How a movie this great could have eluded me is completely beyond my comprehension.  It’s entered the common vernacular, as I’ve seen it referenced in both […]

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I caught one episode of this show when it was originally broadcast.  It was during spin class, so I wasn’t paying that much attention, but the show still certainly made an impression on me.  Enough so that I was very excited when I learned that this show was being renewed for another season.  Joss Whedon […]

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I’m not a fan of Japanese manga.  I know, I know, saying that is disrespectful to my nerd background.  There are some anime movies I loved, but it’s nothing that lives in the center of my heart.  I’m not a Gundam, alien, space battle, manga type of nerd – I come from more of the […]

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I am genuinely angry with myself that I did not know of this show until I got it on DVD.  It is surprising that it was on ABC Family, a channel more given to entertainment that’s equivalent to The CW, just more wholesome.  But it is based off of the graphic novels by Javier Grillo-Marxuach […]

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A conspiracy movie is something wholly fantastic.  After all, who doesn’t love a great conspiracy?  That’s the fuel that gets nerdy kids through high school while everyone else relies on sex and fun.  And to those who graduate and still find conspiracies entertaining, they become libertarians and vote for Ron Paul.  But movies about them […]

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I had a bunch of G.I. Joe toys when I was younger.  Vehicles, dolls, fortresses, guns that actually shot missiles, all sorts of great things like that.  They would fight epic battles against each other constantly, some of them lasting for days on end.  There were never any surrenders and rarely more than three survivors.  […]

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Jimmy Root Jr., has served as an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God since 1982, including service in Nebraska, Missouri, and a seven year term as a missionary in Colombia, South America. He is also the lead Pastor of Family Worship Center of Smithville, a growing suburb of Kansas City, Missouri. 
His writings, both in […]

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“Mad Mouse” is the second in the series after “Tilt a Whirl” and features another interesting and dangerous case for police officers Danny Boyle and John Ceepak. It is late August and a few weeks after the events of the previous novel. Sea Heaven has returned to normal and much of the media attention has […]

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The age old issues of racism and slavery along with the current sensitivity to bullying are all tough topics for kids. Rarely are they handled so well with such sensitivity as they are in this novel.
 
The Secret Of The Lonely Grave
By Albert A. Bell, Jr.
Ingalls Publishing Group
http://www.ingallspublishinggroup.com
ISBN # 978-1-932158-79-3
Large Trade Paperback
159 Pages
  
The story […]

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“Gone Tomorrow” is the thirteenth novel in the Jack Reacher series and this one opens in a subway car in New York City. There are five passengers in the subway car with Jack and only one of them gives him any cause for concern. Twenty years ago when Jack was in detached duty with an […]

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If you are like me you rushed home from school every day to watch Duke, Hawk, Scarlet and Snake Eyes do battle against the greatest of enemies: Cobra.  Now nearly twenty years later we are treated to the same team of elite terrorism fighters on the big screen in their first live-action film.   That being […]

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Last seen primarily in “The Poet,” Jack McEvoy returns in this novel which is both a mystery and a lament to the world of newspaper publishing. It’s been a lot of years since the celebrity success of his book on the poet serial killer and Jack is on the wrong side of 40. The LA […]

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Written by 2002 Shamus Award Nominee Mark Troy, this fast paced and suspenseful novel revolves around Hawaii based private investigator Val Lyon. An ex cop, ex-con, and former pro basketball player, Val Lyon doesn’t tolerate idiots and has little patience for those who don’t do the right thing. Her latest case brings her to the […]

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Reva Blackmon is the probate judge in the small town of Sand Valley, Alabama. Her husband, Wendell is a policeman in the same town where his duties largely consist of breaking up dog fights, investigating alien abductions, extinguishing truck fires, and spending endless hours riding the roads of Sand Valley. The book opens with Wendell […]

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