Carl Brookins

Book Review – Under the Dog Star by Sandra Parshall

 Thanks again to Carl Brookins for another great review. Under The Dog Star by Sandra Parshall ISBN: 978-1-59058-878-9 a 2011 Poisoned Pen release, 303 pages The story is already in full-bore action when you open the book. “In the silver moonlight, the dogs appear as a dark mass moving down the hill and across the …

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Book Review – Lethal Lineage by Charlotte Hinger

Thanks to Carl Brookins for the introduction to another good mystery. The list of books I want to read just keeps getting longer, and longer, and longer….. Lethal Lineage By Charlotte Hinger ISBN:978-1-59058-837-6 2011 Release from Poisoned Pen Press This is an amazing novel. Almost from the first line, one is interested, entertained, and enthralled. …

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Book Review – Damage Control by Denise Hamilton

Thanks once again to Carl Brookins for sharing his reviews with us. Damage Control            by Denise Hamilton ISBN: 978-0-7432-9674-8 a 2011 hardcover release from Scribner. 372 pages. More than just romance can often flower under the hot desert moon. In southern California, a lot more. In the artificially irrigated hothouse of perfectly sculpted bodies, overabundance …

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Book Review – Assignment Nepal by J.S. Squires

Thanks to Carl Brookins for sharing another review with us.   Assignment:Nepal      By J.S. SquiresASIN: B005VFMK6Q2011 E-book release from Echelon Press Readers of this review should be aware that this press has published some of my crime fiction and I am acquainted with the publisher, though not with the two authors writing under a single …

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Book Review – Lost Women of Lost Lake by Ellen Hart

Thank you Carl Brookins for introducing us to another good read. The Lost Women of Lost Lake by Ellen HartISBN: 978-0-312-61477-52011 hardcover release fromMinotaur Books, 320 pgs. It is interesting how these things come in multiples. Libby Hellmann recently released a novel with its genesis in the riotous summer and fall of 1968. The Minnesota …

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Book Review – Murder in the 11th House by Mitchell Scott Lewis

Thanks again to Carl Brookins for another mystery book review…. Murder in the 11th House by Mitchell Scott LewisISBN: 978-59058-950-2a 2011 release fromPoisoned Pen Press A team of intrepid and intelligent agents in league with an astrologer take on difficult cases of potential injustice. The feeling one gets from this debut novel about the Starlight …

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Book Review – Reunion by Carl Brookins

ReunionCarl BrookinsISBN: 978-1-59080-668-5Echelon Press This book straddles the fence between being a cozy and a hard-boiled tale. Jack Marston, former investigator for the U.S. Navy, is now director of student services at a small college in Minneapolis, so he doesn’t consider himself a law-enforcement officer anymore, but he keeps getting pulled into investigations in this …

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Book Review – The Eye of The Virgin by Frederick Ramsey

Thanks to Carl Brookins for another review. He does pick some good books to offer for our reading pleasure…. The Eye of the VirginBy Frederick RamseyPub. Poisoned Pen PressJune, 2010, Hard Cover.254 pages.ISBN: 9781590587607 Review by Carl Brookins Sheriff Ike Schwartz is in it again.  Some odd break-ins have occurred in the area around the …

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Book Review – Viper by John Desjarlais – Review by Carl Brookins

Thank you, Carl, for another review to share with my readers. John Desjarlais was a guest here at It’s Not All Gravy, talking about how he developed this Latina heroine. Click HERE to read that blog post if you would like to know how he blended Aztec history with modern Spanish culture. Viper John Desjarlais978-1933184-80-72011 …

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