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Showing posts with label fall 2013 new release. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fall 2013 new release. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

New Releases Today!!! Allegiant and Sycamore Row

Two highly sought after and long awaited novels release today!!



One choice will define you.


What if your whole world was a lie?
What if a single revelation—like a single choice—changed everything?
What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected?

The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered—fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she’s known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories.

But Tris’s new reality is even more alarming than the one she left behind. Old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless. Explosive new truths change the hearts of those she loves. And once again, Tris must battle to comprehend the complexities of human nature—and of herself—while facing impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice, and love.

Told from a riveting dual perspective, Allegiant, by #1 New York Times best-selling author Veronica Roth, brings the Divergent series to a powerful conclusion while revealing the secrets of the dystopian world that has captivated millions of readers in Divergent and Insurgent. (from Goodreads)




The follow-up to A Time To Kill by John Grisham


John Grisham takes you back to where it all began . . . 


John Grisham's A Time to Kill is one of the most popular novels of our time. Now we return to that famous courthouse in Clanton as Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial-a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history.

Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten, will. It is an act that drags his adult children, his black maid, and Jake into a conflict as riveting and dramatic as the murder trial that made Brigance one of Ford County's most notorious citizens, just three years earlier.

The second will raises far more questions than it answers. Why would Hubbard leave nearly all of his fortune to his maid? Had chemotherapy and painkillers affected his ability to think clearly? And what does it all have to do with a piece of land once known as Sycamore Row?

In Sycamore Row, John Grisham returns to the setting and the compelling characters that first established him as America's favorite storyteller. Here, in his most assured and thrilling novel yet, is a powerful testament to the fact that Grisham remains the master of the legal thriller, nearly twenty-five years after the publication of A Time to Kill. (from Goodreads)


*** How excited are you?  Did you pre-order either of these books?


Monday, September 30, 2013

Review: Low Country Bombshell by Susan M. Boyer

Lowcountry Bombshell
Author: Susan M. Boyer
Publisher: Henery Press
Published: September 2013
Pages: 266
Edition:  Trade paperback
Source: Thank you to the publisher and to TLC Book Tours for a complimentary copy.  Receipt thereof bears no influence on my opinion nor of this review for Lowcountry Bombshell.
Genre:  Mystery


Private Investigator Liz Talbot thinks she’s seen another ghost when she meets Calista McQueen. She’s the spitting image of Marilyn Monroe. Born precisely fifty years after the ill-fated star, Calista’s life has eerily mirrored the late starlet’s—and she fears the looming anniversary of Marilyn’s death will also be hers.
Before Liz can open a case file, Calista’s life coach is executed. Suspicious characters swarm around Calista like mosquitoes on a sultry lowcountry evening: her certifiable mother, a fake aunt, her control-freak psychoanalyst, a private yoga instructor, her peculiar housekeeper, and an obsessed ex-husband. Liz digs in to find a motive for murder, but she’s besieged with distractions. Her ex has marriage and babies on his mind. Her too-sexy partner engages in a campaign of repeat seduction. Mamma needs help with Daddy’s devotion to bad habits. And a gang of wild hogs is running loose on Stella Maris.
With the heat index approaching triple digits, Liz races to uncover a diabolical murder plot in time to save not only Calista’s life, but also her own.

My review:

Lowcountry Bombshell features Liz Talbot, a private investigator and her partner Nate (business and personal) and is part of the Henery Press Mystery Collection. When Liz is contacted by Calista McQueen, a Marilyn Monroe lookalike who seems destined to mirror her life and death, is it a coincidence that Calista is almost the same age Marilyn was when she allegedly committed suicide?  When Calista's psychic advisor is found murdered, a hit in fact, the stakes are raised and Liz finds herself with several suspects including Calista's mother, an odd "aunt", a disturbing psychoanalyst, and a guy in a black mustang with death on his mind to name a few. 

It could be someone's cruel master plan to time Calista's death to the very anniversary of Marilyn's or does it have anything to do with being a "dead ringer?"  Perhaps it's the lottery win her deceased husband won unknowingly as he was found murdered and Calista was the sole recipient of a very generous jackpot.

Lowcountry Bombshell is fast-paced and well-written and you'll want to read it all in one sitting. It is a cozy mystery filled with suspense, an edge of your seat finale and a good hit of romance!

Susan M. Boyer's debut novel, Lowcountry Boil is the recipient of a few awards including the Agatha Award for Best New Novel. I cannot wait to see more from this author!



Susan M. Boyer has been making up stories her whole life. She tags along with her husband on business trips whenever she can because hotels are great places to write: fresh coffee all day and cookies at 4 p.m. They have a home in Greenville, SC, which they occasionally visit, and they run away to the beach as often as possible.
Susan’s debut novel, Lowcountry Boil, is an Agatha Award winner for Best First Novel, a 2012 Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense recipient, and a 2012 RWA Golden Heart® finalist. Her next book, Lowcountry Bombshell, will be released September 3, 2013.
Susan’s short fiction has appeared in moonShine ReviewSpinetingler Magazine, and Relief Journal, among others.
To learn more about Susan, visit susanmboyerbooks.com. You can also connect with Susan on Facebook and Twitter,  see what she’s pinning on Pinterest, and find her on Goodreads.


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