“Nothing in this world is Impossible, the word itself says “I’m Possible!”

Intimate Bondage

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Book 1 of The Kate Dawson Thriller Series

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John L. Flynn

The Devil Takes Half by Leta Serafim

Coffeetown Press, 2014. 9781603819657.

Link to this review by davidtomashek tagged mystery

On the small Greek island of Chios there has not been a murder since World War II. But now, at the site of an amateur archeological dig, heiress Eleni Argentis and her young assistant have been found brutally murdered. Chief Police Officer Yiannis Patronas must find the culprits. Could Eleni have actually found a valuable Minoan artifact worth killing for? The inspector searches for clues in an ancient monastery where history and the modern world sit side-by-side.

Why I picked it up: Detective Patronas was described as a Greek Columbo, and I have always loved the clever way he could trap a murderer.

Why I finished it: Like Columbo, Detective Patronas is short and rumpled, but there the similarity ends. Patronas is a career investigator who has never conducted a murder investigation before, and throughout the novel he is out of his depth. The police are understaffed, under-equipped, and underpaid, victims of the brutal austerity imposed on Greece by the European Union. Patronas slogs through as best he can, and even gets lectured on police procedure by the elderly priest who knows all about it from watching American TV shows.

Readalikes: Patronas shares a certain resigned cynicism with Salvo Montalbano, the Sicilian inspector in Andrea Camilleri’s novels. The first three of those novels are now collected in Death in Sicily.

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Black Opal Books acquires Folly by Ginny Fite!!

Folly

Good girls, it is commonly believed, are obsessed with bad boys. Usually, they get burned. Rarely do they get revenge…

Ben Cromwell—handsome, sexy and ruthless—keeps a stable of women; picks them up the way someone picks up a ripe peach, consumes it in a few bites and throws away the pit. This time, he chose the wrong peaches.

When Detective Sam Lagarde of the Charles Town, West Virginia State Police is called to the scene of a homicide, he instantly surmises the force he is facing is far beyond what he’s dealt with before. A head in dumpster and a pinky finger with an emerald/diamond ring attached is all he has to go by.

Doggedly following lead after lead, Lagarde stumbles upon five women who all have one thing in common…

Ben Cromwell.

Ginny Fite is an award-winning journalist who has covered crime, politics, government, healthcare, art and all things human. She has been a spokesperson for a governor, member of Congress, a few colleges and universities, and a robotics R&D company. She has degrees from Rutgers University and Johns Hopkins University and studied at the School for Women Healers and the Maryland Poetry Therapy Institute. She is the author of I Should Be Dead by Now, a collection of humorous lamentations about aging, three books of poetry, The Last Thousand Years, The Pearl Fisher, Throwing Caution, and a short story collection, What Goes Around.  Folly, a Sam Lagarde mystery/thriller set in Charles Town, West Virginia, is her first novel. She is has two other manuscripts ready for acquisition and is currently writing another Sam Lagarde mystery. She resides in Harpers Ferry, WV.  www.facebook.com/ginnyfiteauthor

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Words from Pep

  
Consider the Raven
For three nights he had been my escort in the dreamtime. I follow him in soundless flight, take in his raven eye view, merge with his thoughts, dark thoughts, probing, revealing the ways and whys of human behavior . . . . . “You pride yourself in your self-consciousness yet you are unconscious of all but yourself. Your kind is alienated from your home and the voice of creation echoing the divine is silent. In separating yourself from intimacy with the grandeur and mystery of the greater world you diminish meaning within your inner world. Return to the scriptures of creation, know our common origin and destiny, feel the warm life giving care and embrace of our loving Creator and be at rest.” . . . . . For three nights in the dark I awoke, sat on the edge of my bed and wondered at the words of my escort. We are not separate from creation but an integral part of the universe. The pathology of our culture’s materialism feeds the virus of greed, destroys creation and strangles the spiritual leaving us without meaning . . . . . There, in the early morning, he sat alone. There, on the corner post of the garden he watched, surveying horizon and field. He was larger than most, clearly aged. He held himself with dignity crafting an aura of wisdom. Seesawing over the fulcrum of his legs he cawed and waited. As I stepped outside onto the porch he fixed his black raven eye to mine and would not let go. Only the gentle toss of a stone separated us and in that space between his eye and mine came these words of old, “Consider the raven. They do not sow or reap or hoard things away, and yet God gives them plenty of what they need. Are not you as important in His eyes?” . . . With that he sprang upward and the rush of air from his wings was felt on my face. He banked between White Pine and Birch, let his caw be heard and was gone. He is no longer my escort in the dreamtime yet those words of the Wise One from long ago are forever imprinted in my heart. Since that day I am at rest.

Pep
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ONE WORLD – ONE FAMILY OF MAN – ONE CREATOR OF ALL

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The Devil Takes Half by Leta Serafim

Patronas, our loveable detective is the Greek version of Columbo.  Stumbling over clues to catch a killer on the exotic island of Greece. Don’t mistake him for a fool.  A wonderfully different “who done it”.

• Barbara Collins – Independent Reviews

Intimate Bondage by John Flynn

Shades of 50 Shades!  Much more to offer than the erotic.  Instead of sex, sex, and more sex, there is murder and intrigue.  How do you catch a serial killer?  Become a victim.  A psychological thriller.

• Barbara Collins – Independent Reviews

Hanahatchee by Trisha O’Keefe

A South Georgia murder mystery that spans both past and present, across racial divides ever present in Southern heritage.  There is nothing that better describes the legal system in the South.  The characters are so well described that they are probably still alive and well way down south.

• Barbara Collins – Independent Reviews

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