Thursday, July 19, 2007

Be Adventurous- Try a New Author this Summer

MAIDEN MYSTERIES:
Excerpted from Publishers Weekly;

HeartSick by Chelsea Cain.
Body count: Either 5 or 204, depending on how you’re counting.
Hollywood pitch: Basic Instinct meets Silence of the Lambs

The Blue Zone by Andrew Gross (who has co-authored 5 best sellers with James Patterson…)
Body count: 13
Hollywood pitch: Alias meets The Departed

The Cleaner by Brett Battles
Body count: 24
Hollywood pitch: James Bond meets Tarantino

Circumference of Darkness by Jack Henderson
Body count: close combat: 3; pointblank: 7; medium- to long-range:14; collateral: 55+
Hollywood pitch: 24 meets The Bourne Identity

I Have just started a book not listed here Mr. Clarinet by Nick Stone. I am on page 77 and really liking it.. tough guy PI, missing child/children, Haiti, talk of voodoo and black magic – what’s not to like…..

JM

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