The Seventh Trumpet by Peter Tremayne is the 21st mystery of ancient Ireland featuring Sister Fidelma of Cashel, now a married woman, but still a dedicated advocate for the law (available July 23, 2013). Although we think of the seventh century as a primitive time, the Dark Ages if you will, Ireland was then a…
The Perfect Ghost by Linda Barnes is a standalone novel set on Cape Cod in which a writer must overcome her phobias so she can unravel the mystery of a friend’s death (available April 9, 2013). When The Perfect Ghost begins, Teddy (Theodore Blake) has just died in a car crash, leaving his partner Em…
A Time of Change by Aimee and David Thurlo is a stand-alone romantic suspense novel (available April 9, 2013). I am a long time fan of the Aimee and David Thurlo Ella Clah mysteries. A Time of Change is a stand-alone, but like the Ella Clah novels, it is set in Navajo country in New…
I’m sure this title makes no sense to those souls who have never watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which aired on TV from 1996 to 2003. In fact, the names of the two most important male characters would seem to indicate that Spike, whose name sounds like a street tough, is the villain, and Angel,…
Okay, I lied. These aren’t bad action stars but ones that, for one reason or another, manage to step up from the traditional action movie genre and are now in a class above Jean-Claude Van Damme in Bloodsport or Steven Seagal in Hard to Kill. (I've already shared my thoughts on Bad Action Heroes and…
I love action movies, good, bad and indifferent. I don’t just watch them; I inhale them, and sometimes the worse they are the more I like them. Usually these strictly B movie action flicks do poorly at the box office. Successful ones earn back the money they cost to make. Under Siege, a Steven Seagal…
I’m going to lay my dirty little secret right out there; I love video games. Since I am a woman of a certain age, and a librarian, most people react with shock and astonishment. I can hear the words, “what’s wrong with you?” trembling on their lips. At ComicCon a few years I obtained the…
