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John Valeri

Book Review: Murder, She Wrote: The Murder of Twelve by Jessica Fletcher & Jon Land

By John Valeri

May 22, 2020

Murder, She Wrote: The Murder of Twelve by Jessica Fletcher & Jon Land is the 51st entry in the USA Today bestselling series, where Jessica Fletcher finds herself stranded in a hotel during a blizzard with twelve strangers and a killer in their midst. Jon Land is the bestselling, award-winning author of more than 50…

Book Review: Secret Investigation by Elizabeth Heiter

By John Valeri

May 11, 2020

Secret Investigation by Elizabeth Heiter is the second book in the Tactical Crime Division series, where agent and former ranger Davis Rogers asks to go undercover to find the traitor responsible for the death of one of his friends, and Petrov Armor CEO Leila Petrov is happy to provide access to her company—especially once she…

Q&A with R. G. Belsky, Author of The Last Scoop

By John Valeri

May 5, 2020

R.G. Belsky has forged an impressive, decades-long career in writing both fact and fiction. As a journalist, he served as metropolitan editor of the New York Post, managing editor of the New York Daily News, news editor at Star Magazine, and, most recently, a managing editor at NBC News. As a novelist, he’s published fourteen…

Q&A with Lis Wiehl, Author of Hunting the Unabomber

By John Valeri

April 23, 2020

Lis Wiehl is a bestselling author who served as a federal prosecutor in the United State’s Attorney’s office and was a tenured professor of law at the University of Washington. She appears frequently on CNN as a legal analyst and is the former co-host of WOR radio’s “WOR Tonight with Joe Concha and Lis Wiehl.”…

Book Review: Final Judgment by Marcia Clark

By John Valeri

April 23, 2020

Final Judgment by Marcia Clark is the fourth and final entry in the Samantha Brinkman series, where a murder investigation draws the firebrand attorney into her boyfriend’s past, forcing her to risk everything on a man who could make all her worst fears come true. Marcia Clark’s name may forever remain synonymous with a certain…

Book Review: All the Pretty Things by Emily Arsenault

By John Valeri

March 19, 2020

Emily Arsenault returns to the Young Adult scene with All the Pretty Things, an all new thriller about a boy who turns up dead under suspicious circumstances and the one girl who may be the key to solving the mystery of his untimely death. Emily Arsenault is the critically acclaimed author of six literary mysteries…

Book Review: You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen

By John Valeri

March 3, 2020

While it would be easy to attribute the success of Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen to the dynamism of their creative collaboration, that would diminish their individual accomplishments. Hendricks earned a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University, has contributed to the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Allure, and spent more than twenty years…

Book Review: Hide Away by Jason Pinter

By John Valeri

February 27, 2020

Jason Pinter is an internationally bestselling author whose works include the five-book Henry Parker series, a standalone thriller, The Castle, and two children’s titles. He has been nominated for the Thriller Award, the Strand Critics Award, and the Barry and Shamus Awards, among others; additionally, two of his works were chosen as Indie Next selections…

Book Review: Pretty as a Picture by Elizabeth Little

By John Valeri

February 25, 2020

A remote island, a Hollywood crew led by a tyrannical director, and a murder case that went cold decades ago. Elizabeth Little returns with her second novel Pretty as a Picture. Elizabeth Little made her crime fiction debut with 2014’s Dear Daughter, which won the Strand Critics Award for Best First Novel; that title was…

Book Review: The Burn by Kathleen Kent

By John Valeri

February 18, 2020

In the second Detective Betty mystery, Kathleen Kent’s protagonist Det. Betty Rhyzyk goes rogue, leading her into the dark underworld of the Dallas drug cartel.  Dallas native Kathleen Kent began her career in publishing by writing bestselling, award-winning historical novels—The Heretic’s Daughter, The Traitor’s Wife, and The Outcasts. She made her crime fiction debut with…

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