Just the heads-up that DCC will be participating in the Blog Tour “Get Loaded” from Blog Tour de Force! This tour will last from January 23rd to January 27th, 2012 and will give DCC readers the opportunity to get free ebooks from a variety of authors. The only thing you need to do is comment below [...]
Tags: Blog Tour, Get Loaded!The Holidays are an excellent time to relax and read so I downloaded a good number of books on my Nook. One of them came from Wendy Cartmell via Twitter. She generously gave me a copy of “Steps to Heaven” and wished me happy readings! She should have mentioned that it would be creepy! “Steps [...]
Tags: Book ReviewsThe author Silvia Pettem contacted me last year to tell me about the book she was working on. While discussing “Cold Case Research” she hinted at another book she had written in 2009. If I wanted it, she’d send me a copy. She wrote that her heart was in that book. And it showed. “Someone’s Daughter; [...]
Tags: Book ReviewsIn 2012 “Cold Case Research” will come out. The author is Silvia Pettem and this is how she describes her book: “Cold Case Research: Resources for Unidentified, Missing, and Cold Homicide Cases,” to be published by CRC Press in 2012. Topics include the latest search engine tools such as TLO, the revolutionary missing and unidentified [...]
Tags: Autopsy, Ballistics, Book Reviews, Crime Labs, Crime Scene, Cruelty, DNA, DNA Database, Evidence, Finger Printing, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Partial Finger Printing, Police, Rape kits, Silvia Pettem, Unidentified, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, WitnessesDeath and the Dream by J.J. Brown is a collection of 14 short stories. In each dread seeps through the lines and the tension is being build up for the possibility of an explosive ending. Each story could easily end in death but then again, in each story death could also be prevented. The story [...]
Tags: Book Reviews, J.J. BrownMy second book review for “Blog Tour de Troops” is Estimated Time of Arrest by Delphine Pontvieux. The book is just like the eyes on the cover: different. The abbreviation ETA reflects the fate of one of the main characters, Lorenzo Lartaun Izcoa. However, ETA of course, also stands for Euskadi Ta Askatasuna. The author gives an [...]
Tags: Blog Tour de Troops, Book ReviewsMy first book review for “Blog Tour de Troops” is Murder at the Rocks by Jill Paterson. In contrast to what you might read in the title, the Rocks do not refer to the beach. They refer to a mansion but to me the Rocks refer to the main characters. How far will a parent [...]
Tags: Blog Tour de Troops, Book ReviewsDid you know that over 300 overseas troops have requested books? And the Indie Book Collective is going to make sure they get them. This Veterans Day weekend, November 11th-14th, any reader can participate in the charity that gives back to the troops! Over 50 authors will be giving away free eBooks, one for each [...]
Tags: Blog Tour de TroopsWhat is Blog Tour de Troops? Read on: “What could be better than getting a free eBook? Why, giving one away to the men and women who protect this country! Just us Memorial Day Weekend when we have a blast blog hopping to dozens of authors sites where each is giving away not only an [...]
Tags: Blog Tour de TroopsJust when you think that you can get some sleep, another author spoils it for you! Rob generously kept me up way too late last night. I should have known that Suzie Ivy‘s book would be worse. Her posts on her blog “Bad Luck Detective” always make me laugh so … I should have seen [...]
Tags: Bad Luck Productions, Book Reviews, law enforcement, police academy, Suzie Ivy
