Nota Bene: This is Fiction

It’s the 1980’s and we have a president with no political experience.  (Nota Bene: 1980) Winter Warning by Jerome Charyn is about a cop who becomes president.  The president’s advisors and even other world leaders are expecting him to fail.  There’s a lottery betting on his demise.  And I don’t mean his resigning from the presidency; I mean his being assassinated.  (Again, nota bene: this is 1980’s.)

I don’t know if there is a lottery in place for how long our current president, Donald Trump, will last, but it wouldn’t surprise me if there were.  But that’s the end of the similarities between Isaac Sidel and Donald Trump,i.e., lack of experience and not expecting him to succeed.  Charyn’s Sidel is a president with a glock in his pants.  He was a cop, is still a cop, and always will be a cop, because he thinks like one.  It’s a good thing, too.  He can’t trust anyone and he has to be alert to deflect physical danger besides the dirty machinations of political maneuvering.

The story begins with the president being under surveillance.  He is shuffled into rooms that have more bugs than a greasy spoon on a truck route.  His chief of staff, Ramona Dazzle hates him and reigns from a palatial suite in the white house.  Poor Sidel finds a room once relegated as a beauty parlor--his only safe refuge. 

Surprisingly, the people he can rely on are a former Israeli official and a Russian tattoo artist, who is a Russian mobster.  He has two close friends: his helicopter pilot and a naval officer.   Everything he does and says is misconstrued. 

The characters are my favorite part of this book.  I love the way the author draws them.  They’re perfect for their role.  If this story is made into a movie, the makeup people will be in demand.  What characters!

I love Charyn’s innovative style.  This is my first Isaac Sidel novel.  Evidently, this book is the conclusion of the Isaac Sidel series. The other Isaac Sidel novels are when he was a New York cop.  I enjoyed Winter Warning so much, that I definitely am going to look up the rest of the series. 

I received this book for free to write a review.  But my opinion is that this is an enjoyable read.  I am happy I received it.

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Jerome Charyn published his first novel in 1964. He's the author of Johnny One-Eye, The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson, I Am Abraham, and dozens of other acclaimed novels as well as nonfiction works. His short stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Paris Review, American Scholar, Epoch, and Ellery Queen. Charyn's popular crime novels featuring homicide detective Isaac Sidel inspired a new animated drama series: Hard Apple debuts on the small screen in 2017, helmed by Hollywood insider James Gray (The Immigrants) and illustrated by famed artists Asaf and Tomer Hanuka. Charyn lives in Greenwich Village, New York.

  
Winter Warning Book Summary:

Reflecting our own world like a volatile funhouse mirror, Winter Warning lures us back to the 1980s, an era that could have been ripped right out of our most recent political upheaval. Isaac Sidel should have been vice president, banished to some far corner of the West Wing, but the president-elect has been forced to resign or face indictment for his crooked land deals—and Sidel becomes the accidental president. He’s a maverick, a crusader with a Glock in his belt, who defies both the Republicans and the Democrats. He seems haunted by Lincoln’s ghost, and the presidential palace becomes his own “great white jail,” as it did for Harry Truman.

There’s never been another president quite like Isaac Sidel, New York’s former police commissioner and mayor. There’s a secret lottery created by some bankers in Basel to determine the exact date of Sidel’s death. And Sidel has to outrun this lottery in order to save himself. His greatest allies are not the Secret Service or the DNC, but a former Israeli prime minister who was a explosives operative during the British occupation of Palestine . . . as well as a mysterious billionaire who belongs to a brotherhood of killers and counterfeiters. His only companions in the capital are the captain of his helicopter fleet and a sexy naval intelligence officer who realizes that something has gone amuck at Camp David, when a band of mercenaries arrive with their sights trained on Sidel.
 

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Genre: Political, Espionage, Thriller
Pages: 256
Release: October 1, 2017
Publisher: Pegasus
ISBN: 9781681773483

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No one Cares

The Coleridge Taylor Mysteries are about a newspaper reporter who is interested in solving the murders no one cares about.  Lights Out Summer by Rich Zahradnik is the latest Coleridge Taylor mystery.

 

Taylor works for a news wire.  The large, flashy newspapers cover the big news.  They seek the sensational, the latest titillation that the public seems to clamor over.  But Taylor would rather find the story of the people who interest him the most, like Martha Gibson.

Martha was a hard working young woman, who was murdered.  The crime seemed unsolvable, but Taylor was determined to find the killer.  In researching Martha’s life, he becomes enmeshed in Martha’s sister’s drug life and her employers’ rich lifestyle.

The reader will expect the drug dealer to have killed Martha.  Then it seems like someone in Martha’s employer’s family.  All this sleuthing is done on the side because Taylor has to do some reporting on other news. 

Taylor has a girl friend named Samantha, who is a private detective.  Taylor’s grandfather owns a coffee shop where Taylor and Samantha hang out.  It’s a place to relax and regroup.  Taylor often uses it as a meeting place.  Samantha and Grandpa support Taylor and help him recharge, besides offering him a sounding board to bounce his theories against.

I liked the pace in Lights Out Summer.  It was faster paced when the thrills erupted on the scene.  There were moments when I thought Martha Gibson was murdered by the Son of Sam.  Oh, that psycho is around.  In fact, the newspapers are clamoring over themselves to get that story out.  But Taylor only pays lip service to the Son of Sam.  He’s more interested in Martha Gibson. She was a good girl who came from a loving and supporting family.  And the police and media don’t seem to care because they’re chasing Son of Sam.  The author has the reader caring about Martha, too. 

That’s the beauty of the story.  The author has the reader care. The characters are delineated well. They are real people.  (Speaking fictionally)  I know people just like these characters.  Unfortunately, I know a few murderers.  (I volunteer in a prison.)  I know enough that people are people and everyone has choices to make. Unfortunately, some bad choices are life altering mistakes.

 Lights Our Summer is a good choice to read.  You just may get hooked on the Coleridge Taylor mysteries.  I was given this book to read and review, but my opinion is my own choice.

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The first three books have been shortlisted or won awards in the three major competitions for novels from independent presses. A Black Sailwas named winner in the mystery category of the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Drop Dead Punk collected the gold medal for mystery ebook in the 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards. Last Words won the bronze medal for mystery/thriller ebook in the 2015 IPPYs and honorable mention for mystery in the 2015 Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Awards.

"Taylor, who lives for the big story, makes an appealingly single-minded hero," Publishers Weekly wrote of Drop Dead Punk.

 A Black Sailreceived a starred review from Library Journal, which said, “Fans of the late Barbara D’Amato and Bruce DeSilva will relish this gritty and powerful crime novel.”

Zahradnik was a journalist for 25-plus years, working as a reporter and editor in all major news media, including online, newspaper, broadcast, magazine and wire services. He held editorial positions at CNN, Bloomberg News, Fox Business Network, AOL and The Hollywood Reporter.



Zahradnik was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1960 and received his B.A. in journalism and political science from George Washington University. He lives with his wife Sheri and son Patrick in Pelham, New York, where he writes fiction and teaches kids around the New York area how to write news stories and publish newspapers.

  
Lights Out Summer Book Summary:

In March 1977, ballistics link murders going back six months to the same Charter Arms Bulldog .44. A serial killer, Son of Sam, is on the loose. But Coleridge Taylor can't compete with the armies of reporters fighting New York's tabloid war--only rewrite what they get. Constantly on the lookout for victims who need their stories told, he uncovers other killings being ignored because of the media circus. He goes after one, the story of a young Black woman gunned down in her apartment building the same night Son of Sam struck elsewhere in Queens.

The story entangles Taylor with a wealthy Park Avenue family at war with itself. Just as he's closing in on the killer and his scoop, the July 13-14 blackout sends New York into a 24-hour orgy of looting and destruction. Taylor and his PI girlfriend Samantha Callahan head out into the darkness, where a steamy night of mob violence awaits them.

In the midst of the chaos, a suspect in Taylor's story goes missing. Desperate, he races to a confrontation that will either break the story--or Taylor.

Book 4 in the Coleridge Taylor Mystery series.
 

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Genre: Historical, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense
Pages: 288
Release: October 1, 2017
Publisher: Camel Press
ISBN: 9781603812139

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Linda to Lin

The time period drew me in.  Tricia Dower, the author of Becoming Lin, placed her story in the 60’s.  That’s exactly my era.  I was right there.  What the main character, Lin, went through, I did also.

 Lin was born Linda Wise.  Once she left home and got married her name changed.  She became Lin Brunson.  She matures and becomes her own person—not the Wise’s daughter—and not Pastor Ron’s wife.  But her own person, not an attachment to someone else.  Again, I can identify.  Because of a mistake in filling out my college application, my first and middle name got mixed up.  I welcomed the opportunity to shed my “different/stand-out/comment inviting,” first name, to a common one. 

I sympathized and emphasized with so much, in this story.  The Vietnam War, the protests, the new bride, the new mother—all these roles, I lived.  Of course, however, Becoming Lin was about Linda Wise’s maturation into Lin Brunson.  Her story was not mine and I had to stop living Lin and let her go. 

That was Lin’s husband’s problem.  He had to let go.  He was a good guy but a control freak.  He actually had a hutzpah to get a vasectomy with discussing it with his wife.  That was the first red flag.  Every nice thing he did after that made me suspicious.  Although Lin’s “separation” from him was interesting.  And compared to Lin’s friends’ experiences with men, Ron was an excellent husband.

I won’t spoil the ending for you, but I will tell you that it’s not a Disneyland ending.  But it is the perfect ending. 

The problem was that Lin got married too young.  She needed to mature into her own person.  That’s the novel’s plot.  The author made it real.  Her characterization is solid.  Her descriptive setting is well drawn.  It really is an excellent book.

I did receive this book to review but my opinions are my true feelings.

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Genre: Women's Fiction, Historical, Coming of Age
Pages: 240
Release: March 20, 2017
Publisher: Caitlin Press
ISBN: 9781987915075

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Putting Out the Fires

Detective Constable Kevin Walker and Detective Inspector Ellie March, work together again, to solve the arson that has terrorized the Leeds County community. Whenever you have a March and Walker mystery, you have the makings of a good crime novel.  Michael J. McCann's Burn Country is well researched with specific police procedures.

Unfortunately, I was put off in the first ten chapters of the story.  There are too many characters.  I was forced to take a pen and paper to write them all down. The positions and names drove me crazy: detective constable, detective sergeant, detective inspector, OFM investigator, OPP Identification Sergeant, Forensic Identification Unit, Identification Constable, Detachment Commander, Deputy Commissioner, Provincial Commander of Investigations and Organized Crime, Quick Response Team Mountie, Integrated National Security Enforcement, Regional Intelligence Coordinator.  And these are just titles.  The names attached to them made my list two pages long!

Fortunately, I became interested in Kevin Walker’s home life.  He’s a kind, reflective, honest, and intelligent investigator.  Ellie March is a machine, but an effective one.  She’s intelligent, experienced and focused.  Her personal life suffers from her detailed fixation, but she’s successful.  Walker’s priorities aren’t so singular.  They do make a good team.

The story develops around a murder/arson crime.  The victim is a senator and also an artist.  As a politician, he had enemies.  His political work involved sensitive material, so even the prime minister was concerned.  The man, Senator Darius Lane, also was an artist—a good one.  You could even say a successful artist, or he would have been if he weren’t an alcoholic.  The investigation went off in different directions due to the political intrigue, artistic jealousy, and personal grudges.  There were several good suspects.

The question though was the other fires.  Was this murder the same arsonist?  Was the fire a cover-up for Senator Lane’s murder?  Were all the crimes related? 

Walker worked the interrogations.  He intuited that he was looking for a serial arsonist and zeroed in on a young, emotionally fragile young man.  March handled and sorted out the various police and government interests.  It turned out that the senator’s murder was a cover-up and the murderer was not the serial arsonist.  But both criminals are brought to justice. 

The story is good.  The pace is perfect.  On the whole, I enjoyed Burn Country.  But there were too many characters.  I still do recommend the book.  I also recommend that the reader just skim over the names and not concern himself with them.  Get to the story. I received a free copy of Burn Country by Michael J. McCann from Tribute Books.  No other compensation was received and my review is my honest evaluation.

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Genre: Murder Mystery
Release: March 17, 2017
Publisher: Plaid Raccoon Press
ISBN: 9781927884096

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Bronx Gothic

Bitter Bronx by Jerome Charyn is written in Gothic Bronx style.  I don’t know if there such a thing. 

Look at the tail on Jerome Charyn's cat.
Isn't she beautiful?  You gotta love a man
who loves cats.

If not, then give Jerome Charyn credit for creating a new genre. I call Charyn’s book of short stories, “Gothic” because his thirteen stories tell of weird, comic characters involved in melodramatic situations that will raise your eyebrows, or twist your lips into a smirk.  I think I might have even guffawed at one of the “Silk” stories.

Charyn’s stories bring you to a “mecca of middle-class Jews,” “Mafioso restaurants”, and up to the Grand Concourse.  A grifter gigolo named Howell is surprised to find love in Lorelei.  Another gigolo whose modeling name was Adonis is good at dining widows. The kids at Music and Art had a cockroach who writes poetry and a companion, alley cat, who thought she was Cleopatra.  They are named Archy and Mehitabel. Then there’s the bisexual in The Cat Lady’s Kiss.  My favorite stories were the three stories about the Silk family: Silk & Silk, Little Sister, and Marla. The reader gets drawn into this melodramatic soap opera life of the Silks.  The characterization must have reminded me of some people I know because these stories are my favorite.

Then we continue with Dee who tried to help the gentle giant, Eddie.  There was a homeless man in love with Princess Hannah.  A poetry teacher who made me wonder if the author was projecting himself in  Milo’s Last Chance.  An orphan who lucked out in Alice’s Eyes.  A New York Yankees’ twenty-fifth man, who became the secret lover of a hospital administrator, in Major Leaguer.  Lastly, a dangerous female ex-con in White Trash, who exhibited psychopathic behavior.

These thirteen stories will hold you tight and then release you to breathe.  And think.  You’ll be wondering and thinking of the Silks, and crazy characters, and colorful situations, for quite a while.  Jerome Charyn’s Bitter Bronx is quite a tour.  I enjoyed it.  I think you will, too. I received a free copy of Bitter Bronx by Jerome Charyn from Tribute Book, but no other compensation was received, and my review is my honest evaluation.

About the Author:

Jerome Charyn's stories have appeared in The Atlantic, The Paris Review, The American Scholar, Epoch, Narrative, Ellery Queen, and other magazines.  His most recent novel is I Am Abraham. He lived for many years in Paris and currently resides in Manhattan.

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Genre: Short Stories
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9780871404893
Publisher: Liveright

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About the Author

Jerome Charyn's stories have appeared in The Atlantic, The Paris Review, The American Scholar, Epoch, Narrative, Ellery Queen, and other magazines. His most recent novel is I Am Abraham. He lived for many years in Paris and currently resides in Manhattan. 

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Spinner

Michael J. Bowler has previously published seven novels and a screen play:

A Boy and His Dragon
A Matter of Time (Silver Medalist from Reader’s Favorite)
The Knight Cycle
Children of the Knight (Gold Award Winner in the Wishing Shelf Book Awards)
Running Through a Dark Place
There is No Fear
And The Children Shall Lead
Once Upon A Time in America

This list shows Michael J. Bowler as a prolific writer among young adult writers.  His newest book, Spinner, is a young adult thriller.  The main character, Alex has a wonderful gift.  The gift is the ability of heal.  However, the gift is the source of the unleashing of all the evil machinations in the story.  The bad guys want it.  The good guys need it.  And all the guys think it will save them.

Whereas the gift of healing is the impetus of the plot, the background of the characters complicate it. Alex has spina bifida.  Although he has a gift for healing, he is unable to heal himself.  Another weird thing is that when he heals someone, he assumes their injury or injuries.  This includes emotional hurts, as well as physical.  Because of Alex’s spina bifida, he is crippled; he uses a wheelchair.  Let me tell you, this does not affect his mobility in the least.  He gets around everywhere.  His upper body strength is impressive.  He’s buff from the waist up.  The bullies call him “roller boy,” because of his wheelchair. They mean it as an insult.

Alex is also in the special ed class.  He and the other kids in the class can barely read or write.  The reader will find this frustrating because the kids can’t read notes, or signs, or write to each other.  Imagine how the kids feel! 

If this isn’t enough stress on the Alex, he’s an orphan and consequently lives in a foster home with two other foster children.  Their foster mother is a “bitch on steroids.”  She is both verbally and emotionally abusive to all in her care.  Once she is aware of Alex’s gift of healing, she schemes to sell him for a lot of money.  Alex’s healing is called “spinning.”  Everyone refers to it as “spinning someone.” 

The bad guys are real evil forces.  Naturally, they’re after Alex.  Just in case the tension hasn’t kept you on the edge, there’s a twist.  Alex finds out he has a twin.  And the bad guys have him. 

As you can tell, the plot has many subplots.  The plots entwine, separate, crash, and keep you reading.  Spinner is a story that you will lose sleep over, and I don’t mean because of its pace and horror, but because you’ll stay up to read what happens next. You are going to remember this book.  Spinner is a keeper.

I did receiver the ebook for free in exchange for a review, but this report is my honest opinion.  I liked the book and give it the maximum number of stars.  You can take advantage of the pre-release price.  And take a chance at the Amazon $25 raffle.                   a Rafflecopter giveaway

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Genre: YA Horror
Pages: 463
Publisher: YoungDudes
ISBN: 9781511943086
Release: August 5, 2015
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Neve and Egan to the Rescue

Danse Macabre, Cristelle Camby’s latest mystery is the third in the Neve & Egan cases.  The other two are Russian Dolls and Ruby Heart.  Like the others, Danse Macabre is a good whodunit, solved by the unlikely, but successfully adept,  private investigators, Alexandra Neve and Ashford Egan. One is a young lady, and the other is a blind man.  

The novel begins with a prologue to explain how Alexandra Neve and Ashford Egan came to be private investigators.  Just the fact that Egan is blind, will want the reader to read on to see how this unlikely pair can function at all, never mind be successful.  That’s what intrigues me, in this mystery and in the entire series.  How can this team of handicapped investigators solve these crimes?  That’s what the reader wants to know.

Danse Macabre tells the story of a serial killer.  At first it’s a pianist, then a ballerina, and then a singer.  The story itself begins with a mother looking for her missing daughter.  The police think the 24-year-old ballerina has simply taken off, especially since she took money and clothes.  But this is uncharacteristic of her. 

Then, a singer was found dead.  The victim’s body was arranged in a grotesque position.  Plus her eyes were stitched open. The tension and suspense mount, as the reader realizes that the missing ballerina may meet the same fate.

There are enough plot twists to surprise you and keep you turning the pages.  Another missing person is reported.  When more young artists are missing, the public is starting to think,“serial killer.” Scarier too—he’s committing strange ritualistic torture on the young ladies.

The characters, Neve and Egan are drawn well.  Crombley drew the killer so well, you’re terrified.  The author also does a fine job of building suspense.  I think young adults, as well as adult readers who love suspenseful thrillers, will be the target audience.  Everyone who loves detective series will enjoy the Neve and Egan cases, especially Danse Macabre. 

 This was an honest review, which I agreed to write in exchange for the free book.

Prices/Formats: $2.99 ebook, $11.99 paperback
Genre: New Adult, Detective Mystery
Pages: 254
Release: October 2014
Publisher: self-published
ISBN: 9781502723772

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Danse Macabre Summary:

Private investigators Alexandra Neve and Ashford Egan are hired to succeed where the police have failed, to safely return home a missing ballerina. With no lead to pursue and no idea who could be behind the young woman’s kidnapping, they soon find themselves at a loss as to what to do.

To make matters worse, the heart of England seems to be caught in the middle of a little Ice Age. With snow endlessly falling and Tube lines either too cramped up to use or out of service, it is a pain to do any legwork in the huge metropolis.

Oh, and because trouble never comes alone, there may also be a serial killer on the loose in the streets of East London...

Cristelle Comby's Bio: 

Cristelle Comby was born and raised in the French-speaking area of Switzerland, in Greater Geneva, where she still resides.

Thanks to her insatiable thirst for American and British action films and television dramas, her English is fluent.

She attributes to her origins her ever-peaceful nature and her undying love for chocolate. She has a passion for art, which also includes an interest in drawing and acting.

Danse Macabre is her third new-adult novel, and she’s hard at work on the next titles in the Neve & Egan series.

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