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Review: First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen by Charlie Lovett
If you love Jane Austen you need to move this book up to the top of your TBR list immediately! Sophie Collingwood’s uncle has just died under questionable circumstances and then his prized rare book collection has been sold to satisfy his debts. To console herself, Sophie goes to work at her favorite bookstore in London, Antiquarian Books. While working at the store, she is approached by two different collectors who are after the same book, Little Book of Allegories, written by Reverend Richard Mansfield in 1796.
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Interview: Last Words by Rich Zahradnik
In the darkest corners of New York City, LAST WORDS examines the city during its harshest period in 1975. While New York burns, Coleridge Taylor, a reporter for the Messenger-Telegram, hunts down a killer, hoping to redeem himself for writing an invented news article. Laura Wheeler, a co-worker, joins Taylor on his adventure, dodging the mob and crooked cops. Will they be able to achieve justice in time or will they be engulfed by the rest of the city? To celebrate the upcoming release of this thrilling mystery, I am spotlighting an interview with Rich Zahradnik! Without further ado please welcome Rich Zahradnik to The Lit Bitch!
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Review: The Hawley Book of the Dead by Chrysler Szarlan
Reve (Revelation) Dyer’s life changes in the blink of an eye. She works as an assistant to her magician husband, Jeremy, and together they have three lovely daughters. Their magic show in Las Vegas draws crowds every night, but in an instant everything changes. While performing a magic trick, Defying the Bullets, she is supposed to ‘shoot’ her husband and he in turn coughs up the bullet. When blood sprays and Jeremy falls dead to the ground, the audience and Reve are completely stunned. It becomes clear that someone altered her gun with a real bullet but the question was why? Reve and her daughters suddenly start receiving envelopes of pictures…
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Review: Inceptio (Roma Nova #1) by Alison Morton
This is my first experience reading an alternative history novel. Inceptio is not just an alternative history novel though…it’s part political thriller, part romance, and part fantasy. Karen Brown leads an unassuming life. She grew up in rural Nebraska and moved to New York where she continues living a quiet life. She works in a cubicle with no major responsibilities. She isn’t seeing anyone special, and like most young women on their own, she’s barely making ends meet. But all that is about to change, in a big way. When she starts working on a new account for a Roma Nova organization, she has no idea they are actually there surveying her. She soon…
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Announcement: Winner THE BOOKMAN’S TALE by Charlie Lovett
And the winner of the giveaway for THE BOOKMAN’S TALE by Charlie Lovett is….. Chris P (likes on Facebook) The winner will be notified via email. Thank you to everyone who entered and a huge thank you to the publisher for making this giveaway possible!
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Review: The Bone Church by Victoria Dougherty
I recently had the pleasure of reading quite a few historic thrillers. It’s kind of a new genre for me but books like The Bookman’s Tale and The Lincoln Myth have piqued my interest and made me want to give the genre a shot . I have also started reading a lot of spy novels as well, so when The Bone Church came around for review I couldn’t resist the unique combo of spy novel and historic thriller! Wartime Prague is the stage where our novel is set. A pair of fugitive lovers, Felix Andel and Magdalena Ruza, make a bargain with a Catholic cardinal in 1956 to smuggle a woman from Czechoslovakia. The other half…
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Giveaway: The Bookman’s Tale by Charlie Lovett
Guaranteed to capture the hearts of everyone who truly loves books! THE BOOKMAN’S TALE is a former bookseller’s sparkling novel and a delightful exploration of one of literature’s most tantalizing mysteries! Thanks to the Publisher, I am ecstatic to be able to offer a copy of THE BOOKMAN’S TALE for your enjoyment! Giveaway is for one paperback copy. See the list of other giveaways for multiple chances to win a copy! Giveaway runs 7/16/14 to 7/23/14 Winners will be announced 7/24/14. (how to enter) On this blog you must leave a comment to be entered in the giveaway. Your comment MUST include your email so I can contact you….if you do not enter an email in…
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Review: The Bookman’s Tale by Charlie Lovett
The socially awkward Peter Byerly is an antiquarian book collector who might have just made a huge discovery. Peter might have just discovered a manuscript–possibly a new Shakespearean manuscript–which needless to say would be priceless! Peter is in a bad spot, he’s just lost his wife nine months prior to the opening of the novel, and he’s really only ever loved two things…..books and Amanda. So now he’s left with only his books. Living in America, he decides to leave behind his old life and go live in the country cottage in the English countryside that him and Amanda bought before her death. Living in the cottage makes Peter somewhat of a…
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Review: Suspicion by Joseph Finder
Danny Goodman is a single dad who wants to provide his daughter with the very best things in life….at any cost. Sadly, that cost is rapidly mounting. He can no longer afford to pay her private school tuition and has no one to turn to for any financial support or to borrow money. Just when he is in desperate straights, a solution presents itself. His daughters new best friend has a very very wealthy father. In fact he’s one of the wealthiest men in Boston. When Thomas Galvin offers Danny $50,000 as a charitable gift, he sees no harm in accepting it.
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Review: Baudelaire’s Revenge by Bob van Laerhoven
During the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, Paris is stuck in a proverbial gridlock. Social and political tensions are mounting and the people are looking for any kind of distraction from their daily lives. A grizzly series of murders provides that distraction. Not only are the murders grotesque in nature but they have an interesting signature. Each body is inscribed with a verse from the controversial Charles Baudelaire’s poetry written in Charles Baudelaire’s own hand. There’s only one problem, Charles Baudelaire’s is dead.