The Last ChildI’ve always felt that different categories of books deserve different ratings. Mozart and Otis Redding are about as similar as lace and leather, so I would never try to compare Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nacht Musik with Redding’s Sittin On The Dock of the Bay. But both are five star com...
Hart writes with such raw emotion about something so difficult. The writing itself is beautiful, concise, gripping, pick your favorite overused cliche but it really is. While writing may not be the most noticeable aspect of a story with some authors, when it is, it should be for a good reason, fo...
This book has it all - organized crime goons, dead bodies (lots of them), tormented pasts, missing money, and so many questions to be answered before we run out of pages! When the head of the crime family dies, his protégée, Michael, must fight for his life against those who want to take control...
KING OF LIES (Suspense-Jackson Workman Pickens-North Carolina-Cont) –NRHart, John – 1st bookThomas Dunne Books, 2006, US Hardcover – ISBN: 031234161XFirst Sentence: I’ve heard it said that jail stinks of despair.*** Jackson Workman “Work” Pickens is a defense attorney, married to a beautiful wom...
The first was expected. The second was not. “What are you saying, Liam?” He was in the bull pen. Seven forty-one in the morning. Hamilton and Marsh were behind the glass in Dyer’s office. Liam Howe had just walked up from Narcotics. The place was a madhouse. Cops everywhere. Noise. Movement. “I’m...
had not yet resurfaced. Neither had Peck. A phone call after Wednesday morning rounds, however, had Margie waving Gregg and Izzy over to the nurse’s station. Her tone was serious, hushed. “You’re both supposed to report to the HQ immediately. Apparently there is a CID colo...
Even the lame fox no longer visited. Hunger had driven Urrell one day to scratch about in Agaratz’s pouches for remnants of stores while their owner was out foraging. In one he came across several handfuls of grain, dried hard as grit, which it occurred to him to kibble with a pebble on a slab of...
was two counties over in an area bedridden by two decades of a failed blue-collar economy. A hundred years ago, it was some of the most productive farmland in the state. Now it was wild and overgrown, littered with shuttered plants, crumble-down mill houses, and singlewides on dirt tracks. Fields...