Dear Readers:
I just got word from my publisher that my novel Clean Copy in an ebook format  is available at the moment as a coupon deal.    It can be downloaded to your reader for $3.99.  Here’s the link:
https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=bd5UEAAAQBAJ.
 
The deal is limited to one coupon per customer, but feel free to pass this info on the any and all.  
This novel actually has a current hot topic: the theft of intellectual property from the US by China.  It also raises the ethical issue of behavior modification by means of brain treatment, which is the way we treat depression today. 
Do not be fooled by the claim on the site that another book by R.R. Brooks is Disruptive Security Technologies.  That is a different Brooks. 
If you’re looking for a good book and haven’t had the chance to read Clean Copy, please take a look.  Reviews posted on Amazon are greatly appreciated.

I just finished reading The Art of Theft by Sherry Thomas.  This is the fourth book in her Lady Sherlock Series, books that use characters derived from Conan Doyle and set in the same era.  I highly recommend it to readers who cherish great prose style, i.e., word choice (reticule, Stygian) and sentence structure.  You'll find it with this author.  A delight.

I have found an international publisher for my cozy paranormal mystery Murders at Lake Wyrd.  The novel will be available in all print formats, as an ebook, and hopefully in audio format.





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As readers, we love to turn the last page of a book, sit back, and feel happy to have spent time with the book.  If it's fiction, we relished the story.  I had this feeling recently with vera Morris' Some Particular evil, the first book in TheAnglian Detective Novel Series. I gave the mystery a five-star review on Amazon and here is my summary:

This is an enjoyable murder mystery set at an English boarding school.  After her younger sister is murdered, Laurel, an athletics teacher, takes a job as head mistress at a school, where she learns there has been the murder of the headmaster's wife.  Frank, the detective who investigated her sister's death unsuccessfully, has been assigned to reopen the school investigation.  Attraction between the two grows as the solving occurs.  Old murders and disappearances are uncovered.  A new killing happens.  Various suspects arise.  The characters are distinct, memorable, and believable.  Even the history of the victim is filled out and the perpetrator's background and thinking is provided.  This is a good prose with a robust story that keeps the reader moving ahead to the reward of good resolutions and a delightful premise and promise of the next book.


Speaking of reviews, I checked the reader ratings of our four YA-adult novels on Amazon and found that all four have good ratings with The Clown Forest Murders in the lead (91% five-star + four-star ratings).  Actually Clean Copy has 100% ratings that are five or four stars, but the sample size needs more voices.  I like to choose books with a total of 80% or more with these types of ratings.