BOOK SPOTLIGHT & REVIEW: Sirens in the Night By Michael Bradley

Sirens in the Night
By Michael Bradley
Genre: Fiction, Supernatural Thriller
Amberjack Publishing

Book Description 

When three corpses are found at a construction site in Philadelphia, homicide detective Samantha Ballard is assigned to investigate the bizarre deaths. The bodies seem like a hoax – withered like ancient mummies, yet dressed in modern day clothing. As more mummified corpses begin to appear throughout the city, Samantha must embark on an investigation that erodes the line between the possible and impossible.
Jack Allyn, a radio DJ who thinks his career is in a downward spiral, has his world rocked by the unusual murder of his friend. As Jack begins to search for answers, he finds himself coming face to face with a force that is as malevolent as it is entrancing.

With his life in danger, Jack must join forces with Samantha to save the city from an evil that threatens the people of Philadelphia. But with the odds stacked against them, can Jack and Samantha save their city from a primeval force with a deadly purpose?



My Review:

I was enthralled with this book from the first word. Extremely well written, fast-paced, exciting & unique plot, excellent character development, and rich descriptions and environments make this tale a star!  The story centers around a DJ named Jack Allyn who has landed in PA after torpedoeing an aspiring broadcast career, and the detective Samantha Ballard and their collective search for answers to a bizarre series of homicides plaguing Philadelphia. This book is thoroughly engaging from start to finish, and I foresee many more strong pieces of work coming from author Michael Bradley.  Read this book!  An enthusiastic five stars!

Author Bio

Born and raised in southern New Jersey, Michael Bradley is an author and software consultant, whose frequent travels have brought him in touch with a variety of people throughout the United States. In his "day job", he has presented on a variety of subjects at several IT conferences, both in America and in Europe. When he isn’t on the road, working, or writing, Michael hits the waterways in one of his three kayaks, paddling creeks, streams, and rivers all over Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey.

Before working in information technology, Michael spent eight years in radio broadcasting, working for stations in New Jersey and West Virginia, including the Marconi Award winning WVAQ in Morgantown. He has been "up and down the dial" working as on air personality, promotions director, and even program director, providing a wealth of fond, enduring, and, sometimes, scandalous memories that he hopes to some day write about.

Among the writers in which he finds inspiration, Michael favors P.D. James, Raymond Chandler, Leslie Charteris, Simon Brett, Terry Pratchett, and Ian Fleming. He lives in Delaware with his wife, Diane, and their three furry four-legged “kids”, Simon, Brandy, and Preaya.



Links

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/mjbradley88
Website: http://www.mbradleyonline.net/
Amazon: http://goo.gl/nl9nNS 
Goodreads: https://goo.gl/uoOs5S  
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BOOK SPOTLIGHT: In Light of the Blood Giant By A. D. Fosse

In Light of the Blood Giant
By A. D. Fosse
Genre: Animal Fantasy; Science Fiction; Dystopian; Apocalyptic
Superluminal Press
Publication Date: November 13, 2015

A. D. Fosse delivers a darkly different futurist fantasy. Offbeat, subversive, and richly grotesque. The apocalypse just got weird...

Long after the death of humankind came the Hive. Then rose the Blood Giant bringing chaos and the end. Now the Earth is done and all that remains are the discontinued: those the Hive deemed unworthy of evacuation.

Dusk is addled and abandoned. His only concern now is deciding how best to die. The only thing he knows for certain: he aint gonna be sober when extinction finally takes him. Yet hope hides in the strangest of places. And soon Dusk finds himself responsible for more than simply his own destiny.

Great. Another thing to love and lose.

Author Bio

A. D. Fosse is a physicist and science communicator from the East Midlands of England. His brain is rarely elevated more than five feet and eight inches from terra firma, though his thoughts are wafting somewhere in the clouds.

He is younger than some and older than others.

His first novel "In Light of the Blood Giant," continues to be elusive to read whilst driving.






Links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ADFosse  
Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1VQQ2Lu 
Amazon: http://amzn.to/1R9o8ZR
Publisher:  http://www.superluminalpress.com/

BOOK BLITZ: Five Seven Five By C.E. Wilson

Five Seven Five
By C.E. Wilson
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy

Book Description

Take only what can be used. Take only what won’t be missed. The Creators are watching all of us.

White Frost lives in a world cloaked in darkness and ignorance. While most people in her society are content to live in fearful peace, White’s cousin brings her words from the mysterious Unknown. Strange collections of written words that tease her that there may be more to the world than candlelight and dank hallways.

But when tragedy strikes, White can no longer rely on the words to give her solace. She must discover what lies beyond the only world she’s ever known… no matter the cost.

Eventually, White finds her way to the skies and there she discovers that the tantalizing clues of her words are only pale reflections of the massive and wondrous world above. Colors she never thought possible. Blinding light. And an impossible being who may or may not be the Creator of it all.

But this information comes at a price White Frost is not sure she can pay.

White’s hunger for knowledge proves to be her greatest strength and weakness as she strives to learn more. But as she learns, she has to wonder – is there such a thing as too much information? And what will happen as it brings her closer to a being who could destroy everything she’s ever known?

Find out in Five Seven Five, the first book in a two part series entitled The Boy with Words.

Author Bio  

C.E. Wilson is currently living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband, beautiful daughter, chubby beagle and two cats. They are all the loves of her life. When she’s not writing Young Adult novels, she enjoys writing short stories on DeviantArt. She loves to read and write anything involving giants and little people (also known as G/t) and she can't decide what she loves more: horror movies or shoujo manga. She has a bachelor's degree in English Education so she has a soft spot for older literature authors including John Milton, William Shakespeare, and stories such as Paradise Lost and Beowolf. On a side note, nothing helps her to write more than drinking good coffee loaded with lots of cream and watching The Twilight Zone.



Links: 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cewilsonauthor 

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/CEWilson

Twitter: @cewilson1

BOOK SPOTLIGHT: On the Verge By Garen Glazier

On the Verge
By Garen Glazier
Genre: Dark Fantasy, Urban Fantasy

Book Description:

Freya is just a student at the University of Washington worried about grades and making her next tuition payment until a gorgeous succubus interrupts her post-exam latte with a proposition: come work for her boss, Seattle’s reclusive heiress and antiquities collector Imogen Beldame. Eagerly agreeing despite a nagging feeling in the pit of her stomach, Freya finds herself swept up in a deadly quest at the behest of her psychopathic new employer. Beldame has given her until Halloween to collect three magical pigments that hold the key to crafting mesmerizing portraits that can access the Verge, an undiscovered borderland on the edge of human reality, and the powerful beings that call it home.

Freya’s reluctant journey takes her to a goblin stronghold in the Cascades for the color blue, to the Seattle Underground to request the color red from Baba Yaga, and to the Fremont home of a beautifully gruesome Cambodian ahp, or spirit of the night, for the color yellow. Working together with Rusty, an enigmatically disfigured man intimately connected with the Verge, and a motley crew of mercurial demons and loyal friends, Freya must come up with a plan to stop Beldame and preserve the fragile balance between fantasy and reality that is at its most vulnerable on Halloween.

Bio:

I'm a lifelong resident of Seattle. I married my Russia-born-America-raised high school sweetheart, and we have a four year old and a new little one born in February.

I like coffee shops, bookstores, dancing in my living room and singing in my car. The opening scene of Up always makes me cry. The Three Amigos always makes me laugh. Fashion magazines, croissants, and long, long baths are my guilty pleasures. They might occur separately or together. I prefer boxing classes to yoga, and I get some of my best ideas when I'm running. I loved school and spent more time than one really should getting a business degree in marketing and a master's in art history. In an ideal world I'd go to bed at 2am and wake up at 10am. I've never been an early bird, and I feel strongly that alarm clocks kill dreams.




Learn more about me and read my blog, Scriven by Garen, at garenglazier.com.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/garen.glazier
Twitter: @GarenGlazier
On the Verge is available on Amazon: http://amzn.to/1KBUQxS

BOOK SPOTLIGHT: Thompson Road By Scott Wyatt

Thompson Road
By Scott Wyatt
Genre: Historical Fiction

A sweeping, coming of age romance set in the Pacific Northwest on the brink of WWII. Rejected by classmate and talented swing dancer Sally Springs, high school quarterback Raleigh Starr remains desperate to win her heart. While walking home on Thompson Road, he catches sight of Mona Garrison dancing at her bedroom window. 

He is mesmerized. 

Determined to dazzle Sally, Raleigh convinces the shy sixteen year old to compete with him in a swing dance contest. After he is swept up in the war, Raleigh realizes too late what Mona has always known: that they are perfect for each other…but he is unaware of the terrible price she has paid for his attention. Thompson Road is a poignant, tender story that reminds us of the power of first love.

Author Bio:

SCOTT WYATT IS THE AUTHOR OF THREE NOVELS: Beyond the Sand Creek Bridge, Dimension M, and Thompson Road. A graduate of Stanford University and the University of Washington Law School, he is an attorney and social activist as well as a fiction and nonfiction writer. He and his wife Rochelle have four children and six grandchildren, and live in Washington State. Find him on Facebook at Scott Wyatt, Author, on Twitter @swyattauthor, and on his website.

Links to his social media:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scottwyattauthor

Twitter:  https://twitter.com/swyattauthor  (@swyattauthor)

Website: www.scottwyattauthor.com

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Scott-Wyatt/e/B00ALI4XHC

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6570339.Scott_Wyatt

 

BOOK SPOTLIGHT: Asylum II - 13 More Tales of Terror By Matt Drabble

Asylum II - 13 More Tales of Terror
By Matt Drabble
Genre: Horror

Book Description

After a breakout and a devastating fire, the private hospital is finally refurbished and opening its doors for business again.

But the evil that has blighted this place runs deeper than the concrete foundations. Its very nature attracts darkness and now another storm is brewing.

Some of the most disturbed minds sit within the padded walls of Blackwater Heights. Each has a tale to tell and each is more shocking than the last.

Dr Hilary Meeker is about to take up her position on the staff. An ambitious woman looking to make her mark and climb the professional ladder with little regard to those she steps upon.

Dr Elgon Perrin runs the hospital, an unusual man with a unique style. But is he all that he seems, are his methods too extreme and is he more dangerous than the inmates that he stands watch over.

Author Bio

Born in Bath, England in 1974, a self-professed "funny onion", equal parts sport loving jock and comic book geek. I am a lover of horror and character driven stories. I am also an A.S sufferer who took to writing full time two years ago after being forced to give up the day job. 

I have a career high position of 5th on Amazon's Horror Author Rank of which I am immensely proud. I am also been accepted as a full member of the Horror Writers Association.

"GATED" is the 2015 Readers Favorite Gold Medal Winner for Horror. It is also a UK & US Horror Chart Top Ten Best Seller & winner of the Full Moon Awards 2014 Horror Book of the Year.
"ASYLUM - 13 TALES OF TERROR" is a US Horror Chart #5 It was also voted #5 on The Horror Novel Review's Top 10 Books of 2013 & is a Readers Favorite 2014 Gold Medal Winner. Both "THE TRAVELLING MAN" and "ABRA-CADAVER" won Indie Book of the Day awards.


Follow Matt

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/MattDrabble01 
On Goodreads: http://bit.ly/1FV8UH4
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/matt.drabble.3 
On Amazon: http://amzn.to/1hoQGSM

BOOK SPOTLIGHT: Moonshine By D.C. Hicks

Moonshine
By D.C. Hicks
Genre: Literary, Magical Realism

Book Description

How far would a mother go to save her child? 

Micah Harper was born a free spirit. A ten-year-old befriender of trees and wild animals, she desired nothing more than to spend her days traipsing around the mountain that surrounded her home, unearthing its many secrets. All that changed one summer morning when Evie Delaney arrived. Micah took one look at the unannounced and unwelcomed young girl her mother dared to call kin and knew if they were relation of any sort, an entire ocean could fit between the branches of their tree. 

Summer cast a magic spell, and the two girls soon realized everything that made them different also made them one. As they took refuge in the enchanted forest that harbored their many secrets, Micah and Evie pledged to stay together forever, but cruel forces beyond their control tore them apart. In the aftermath, neither girl was left whole. 


Twenty years later, their paths crossed again. Still different as night and day, one blossomed into up a darling socialite while the other became a queen of the suburbs. Despite the time and distance that separated them, they discovered they needed each other more than ever before. In a race against time, they set off on a journey in search of a miracle. Their only remaining hope was guarded by a legion of demons that were more formidable foes than the wild beasts that stalked the jungle’s night. When all they stood to lose if they failed was everything, Micah and Evie had no other choice but to surrender to a faith that had long ago been forgotten.

Author Bio

After graduating from Ball State University, D.C. married her first-generation Appalachian husband, David. They live in Indiana with their son. When she is not writing, she enjoys lifting weights and hiking.

D.C. loves to hear from readers. You can find her on Facebook at www.facebook.com/catchingthewestbound

Follow the author: dchicksauthor.wordpress.com

On Twitter: @MrsDCHicks

On Amazon: http://amzn.com/B014U7PAHG 

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