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Mysterious Book Report No. 349 -Broken Windows

By admin|2018-09-27T08:23:41+00:00September 27th, 2018|Mysterious Book Report|

Broken Windows by Paul D. Marks Down & Out Books, PB, $18.95, 334 pages, ISBN 978-1-948235-07-5 One of the hottest, most emotional and controversial issues facing the nation today is immigration. Say it once at a cocktail party and a discussion will start. Say it twice and an argument breaks out. Dare utter the word for a third time and the fist fight is on . . . metaphorically

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Mysterious Book Report No. 347 – American History

By admin|2018-09-05T07:32:30+00:00September 5th, 2018|Mysterious Book Report|

American History by J.L. Abramo Down & Out Books, PB, $18.95, 362 pages, ISBN 978-1-946502-70-4 The twentieth century may go down in history as the most epochal of all time. It’s already the most fascinating, pivotal and the most consequential of eras because it was without doubt the bloodiest one ever. Now, in a brand new piece of intricate crime fiction, the twentieth century is encapsulated by following the

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Mysterious Book Report – Fan Favorite 2

By admin|2018-08-26T14:42:23+00:00August 26th, 2018|Mysterious Book Report|

Light It Up by Nick Petrie Putnam, $26.00, 384 pages, ISBN 978-0-399-57563-1 As a fifty-plus year resident here in Colorado, the question I’m most often asked by out-of-state friends is: How has the legalization of marijuana affected things there? The short answer . . . stoners love it and are flocking here in large numbers, as are criminals; government is ecstatic over the windfall from tax revenues; cops, school

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Mysterious Book Report No. 346 – Bluff

By admin|2018-08-13T18:40:00+00:00August 13th, 2018|Mysterious Book Report|

Bluff by Michael Kardos Mysterious Press/Grove Atlantic, $26.00, 272 pages, ISBN 978-0-8021-2804-1 Bluff is a novel about the practice of sleight of hand, or magic, and magic is done by practicing the art of misdirection. The conjurer talks the audience into looking over there while at the exact same time doing something over here and presto . . . a deck of fifty-two cards thrown against the wall falls

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Mysterious Book Report No. 322 – Fan Favorite

By admin|2018-08-06T18:35:11+00:00August 6th, 2018|Mysterious Book Report|

False Flag by John Altman Blackstone Publishing, $26.99, 320 pages, ISBN 978-1-5047-9772-6 In the world of espionage, The business of spies is lies, which makes it impossible at times, to distinguish between friend and foe . . . because all covert operations are designed to advance the interests and objectives of the spying country. Put it another way and the axiom becomes: TRUST NO ONE. They all lie all

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Rip Crew

By admin|2019-12-10T22:04:00+00:00July 30th, 2018|2018 Best Books of the Year, Mysterious Book Report, Thriller|

Mysterious Book Report No. 345 Rip Crew by John Dwaine Mckenna With all the rama-lamadingdonging that’s been going on over, under, through, around and about the southern border of our nation this MBR couldn’t be more timely. Rip Crew, (Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company, $27.00, 322 pages, ISBN 978-0-316-50553-6) by Sebastian Rotella, begins in Guatemala where protagonist Valentine Pescatore, an undercover agent for a private security firm, is looking

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Blood Standard

By admin|2019-12-10T21:56:26+00:00July 23rd, 2018|2018 Best Books of the Year, Crime Fiction, Mysterious Book Report|

Mysterious Book Report No. 344 Blood Standard by John Dwaine McKenna The MBR has always had a soft spot for the antihero type: those individuals who’re capable of most anything, but who also possess the same purity of heart as a knight errant on a quest. They’re the kind of characters who struggle with the world, and themselves, in an idealistic representation of the human condition. Simply put: we

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Mysterious Book Report No 343 – Flight Of The Fox

By admin|2018-07-16T06:28:40+00:00July 16th, 2018|Mysterious Book Report|

Flight of the Fox by Gray Basnight Down & Out Books, PB, $18.95, 381 pages, ISBN 978-1-946502-61-2 An electrifying, propulsive and timely thriller was just released that, by all rights, should shoot to the top of every bestseller list in the country. If ever an author stepped up to the plate, took a swing, hit it right on the sweet spot and out of the park . . .

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Mysterious Book Report No. 342 – Spirits of the Heart

By admin|2018-07-09T18:45:45+00:00July 9th, 2018|Mysterious Book Report|

Spirits of the Heart by Frances Brown writing as Claire Gem Erato Publishing, PB, $13.95, 312 pages, ISBN 978-0-9974326-4-0 As the by-line shows, this will be a different—and special—MBR. It’s not within our usual purview of crime and punishment, or murder and mayhem, nor even an exploration of the dark side of human nature. Instead, it’s a goose-pimple inducing paranormal ghost and romance story which takes place at an

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Mysterious Book Report No. 341 – Under Water

By admin|2018-07-03T20:44:49+00:00July 3rd, 2018|Mysterious Book Report|

Under Water by Casey Barrett Kensington Publishing Corp., $25.00, 309 pages, ISBN 978-1-4697-0968-4 The MBR is ever on the lookout for debut authors with arresting characters, compelling plots and above-average wordsmithing talent. When we find one, we do our best to alert all of you, so that together, we can read and enjoy the writer and character as they grow. Those types of people are hard to find, and

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