Are you a fan of International Intrigue? A Review

Andrew Grant, author, reviews, best selling author       I first met author, Andrew Grant, through his lovely wife, author Tasha Alexander.  (Interviews with both coming later in the year)   Andrew consented to an interview this winter in anticipation of his new book which will be released in 2014.

I had never read anything by Andrew but I do try to do my homework because I promised my readers that I was interviewing my favorite authors.  So I ordered  Grant’s book ,  “EVEN”.

And I am so happy that I did.

reviews, authors, writingreviews, authors, writingreviews, authors, writingreviews, authors, writing reviews, authors, writing      Ranking: 5 out of 5 quills                  A REVIEW    “EVEN”

Andrew turns out to be a slick, savvy, clever, and ‘surprise you at every turn’ kind of writer.  And his humor is dry as your morning toast.  Which, if you know me, you know that I love me some DRY humor!

British Intelligence operative, David Trevellyan is a take action sort’a guy.  At one point in the story he is forced to sit in on one of the FBI’s endless meetings and ruminates to himself:  “Staying on to help Tanya fight her demons was one thing. I was thinking about time spent in restaurants, and bars, and other, more secluded places.  Not in offices. Not sitting through endless meetings. Talk of corporations was a bad sign. Any mention of conspiracies and government contractors was worse.  Interagency cooperation was only a sentence away.  Task forces would be proposed.  I knew how it would end up.  If I let the FBI go down that road I’d never get away.  I’d be stuck here for months.”   See?  Very funny man!

I will be buying more of the Trevellyan series as they are great stories.  I always felt like James Bond was a bit of a Andrew Grant, best selling authors, review,spoof….entertaining especially with Sean Connery’s tongue in cheek delivery.  But Andrew’s characters are very real and believable.  In “EVEN” (as in getting…) Trevellyan, a seasoned operative for the British government finds himself  in the crosshairs of the NYPD and the Feebs. He is their prime suspect in a murder.  There is a sadistic, female villain that will give me nightmares for weeks.

This story is brilliantly plotted with lots of twists and turns and I look forward to reading more of Grant’s work.  I highly recommend it.

 

 

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Don’t Miss It!!  MONTHLY INTERVIEWS with other best-selling AUTHORS! 

I have had a wonderful response from authors and will feature an interview once a month . I have invited such luminaries as: Ann Purser, Susan Elia MacNealMark Childress, Rhys Bowen, Dean Koontz, Sheryl Woods, Jo-Ann Mapson, Jeffrey Deaver, Elizabeth Gilbert, Amber Winckler, Robert McCammon, Sue Grafton, Walter Mosley, Nora Roberts, Tasha Alexander, Andrew Grant, and many others.

So come along with me; we shall sneak into these writers’ special places, be a fly on the wall and watch them create!  Mark Childress is our April author.  Robert McCammon is scheduled for May. Caroline Leavitt is June‘s author.  July features Rhys Bowen.  Sue Grafton is August’s author and September will feature Tasha Alexander. Slick mystery writer, Andrew Grant will join us this winter. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Review: Dorchester Terrace by Anne Perry

Rating: writing, creating, reviews,fiction, children's books, fiction for adults, women's fictionwriting, creating, reviews,fiction, children's books, fiction for adults, women's fictionwriting, creating, reviews,fiction, children's books, fiction for adults, women's fictionwriting, creating, reviews,fiction, children's books, fiction for adults, women's fiction 4 quills

If you like World War history, you will love this book.  Set in London; while solving an interesting double murder, the characters lead the reader through the factual maze of what led up to World War I.  Politics, world positioning, greed and power were the ingredients of this witch’s brew long before Hitler came along. A tiny country, Austria, was the linchpin and match strike that started the ‘war to end all wars’.  How’d that work out for all of us? Author, Anne Perry tells a good story. Her dialogue is sharp and sometimes witty.  writing, review, world history, books,