Books I have read

WHAT CAME BEFORE

by

Gay Degani

SUMMARY

A literary suspense novel sparked by racial tensions and family history: Fed up with being tied down by twenty-five years of domestic bliss and everyone's expectations, Abbie Palmer is struggling to assert some independence from her husband Craig and find her creative self. When he tells her, "No man is an island," she flings back, "That's exactly what I want to be, an island. I'm sick of being a whole continent." But breaking away from her mainland isn't so easy, what with cops, Molotov cocktails and Hollywood starlets, lost memories - and maybe an unknown half-sister...

buy link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21825810-what-came-before?ac=1

BIO

Gay Degani has published fiction on-line and in print including her short collection, Pomegranate Stories. She is founder of EDF's Flash Fiction Chronicles, a staff editor at Smokelong Quarterly, and blogs at Words in Place. She’s had three stories nominated for Pushcart consideration and won the 11th Annual Glass Woman Prize. 

Books I have read

SEVEN KINDS OF HELL

by

Dana Cameron

SUMMARY

When archaeologist Zoe Miller's cousin is abducted by a vicious Russian kidnapper, she must come to grips with a haunting secret. Unknown to even her closest friends, Zoe is not entirely human. She's a werewolf and a daughter of the "Fangborn," a hidden race of werewolves, vampires, and oracles.

Zoe's attempt to rescue her cousin leads her on a quest for artifacts—including Pandora's Box, an object of world-ending power. With the fate of humanity in the balance, Zoe will be forced to renew family ties and pit her own supernatural abilities against a dark and nefarious fo.

At once captivation, deftly worded, and character-rich Seven Kinds of Hellexpands vampire legend and werewolf noir in both intensity and charismatic bite.

Buy link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16244759-seven-kinds-of-hell?ac=1

BIO

I was born and raised in New England and I live in Massachusetts now, with my husband and benevolent feline overlords. Mine is a quiet, fairly ordinary life. I love that because it's what saves me from an overdeveloped sense of paranoia and a tendency to expect the worst. Combined with an eye for detail and a quirky take on life, these traits give me a vivid internal life, one that's sometimes a little nerve-wracking, but very useful for writing mystery and suspense.

Books I have written

NORTH OF THE PIER

a murder mystery

by

Janet Elizabeth Lynn

Summary

Skylar Tirnov is found hung in his chi chi LA night club with a wad of money and a huge diamond in his pocket. Detective Marcello Prado and former CSI Connie Cane work with the CIA and foreign services to follow clues that take them through Alaska and eastern Russia where they encounter the Russian mob.  A trail of contraband diamond and gold leads back to the US.

Operating covertly puts them and the team of experts at risk. No one can be trusted. Plagued by false identities, shootouts, betrayal, international incidents, kidnapping and stranded in a snow storm, Marcello and Connie wonder if they will survive to see the crime solved.

Buy Link: Janetelizabethlynnauthor.com

BIO

Janet has written 4 mysteries, 3 cozy mysteries and co authored SLIVERS OF GLASS, a 1955 noir with her husband Will.

Janet was born in New York, Queens, and raised in Long Island until she was 12 years old. Then my family escaped the freezing winters and hurricanes to the warmth and casual life style of southern California. She lives in Long Beach with her husband Will.