Book Review: The Kill Wire (Jamie Sinclair #5) by Nichole Christoff

Title: The Kill Wire (Jamie Sinclair #5)

Author: Nichole Christoff 

Stars: 4 stars

Review:
The Kill Wires is part of a series but can be read as a stong alone novel. Nicole Christoff has the ability to write a fast pace story but giving readers everything they need from character who come alive to locations that pop off the page.
Everyone who is in the story has a purpose moving the story forward until the killers are discovered.
Thank you to netgalley for the copy of The Kill Wire.


Synopsis:
Security specialist and PI Jamie Sinclair crosses interstate boundaries—and personal ones too—in this electrifying thriller from an award-winning author who “understands how to keep her readers riveted from beginning to end” (USA Today).

With a long list of high-profile, high-paying clients, Jamie Sinclair has her hands full—and that’s the way she likes it. Still reeling from the brutal investigation that drove a wedge between her and her boyfriend, military police officer Adam Barrett, Jamie is counting on hard work to help her forget her recent history—but then DEA agent Marc Sandoval barges back into her life. The last time they worked together, Jamie almost crossed all kinds of lines. Now Marc doesn’t just want Jamie, he needs her . . . because she’s the only one who can help him—and the little boy he never told her about.

Marc’s ex has vanished, leaving their six-year-old son in his care. Despite a troubled past, Elena never wavered in her duties as a parent, so something must be very wrong now. Teaming with Marc to track Elena through her home state of Colorado and beyond, Jamie finds herself on a cross-country search for the missing mother of Marc’s child, at a crossroads with Adam, and on a collision course with the killers who’ll stop at nothing to find Elena first

About The Author:

Nichole Christoff is a writer, former broadcaster and military spouse who swears she owes Jane Austen, James Thurber, and Raymond Chandler for her taste in fiction. Nichole is also the award-winning author of THE KILL LIST, THE KILL SHOT, THE KILL BOX, THE KILL SIGN, and THE KILL WIRE starring army brat and private-eye-turned-security-specialist, Jamie Sinclair. When Nic isn't at her desk working on her latest novel, she's out in the woods with her ornery English Pointer.

Find Nichole online at www.nicholechristoff.com where you can sign-up for her free seasonal newsletter, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/NicholeChristoff, on Twitter at @NicChristoff, or drop her a note at nic@nicholechristoff.com.

Book Review: Dark Justice: Hunt (Dark Justice #2) by Jenna Ryan

Title: Dark Justice: Hunt (Dark Justice #2)

Author: Jenna Ryan

Stars: 3 stars

Review:
This story is a let down from the beginning to the end. The first book in the Dark Justice Series had moments that readers were able to understand why the characters did what they did.  While this a stand alone novel it is a big let down from the first in the series. I would just skip this one since it doesn't have anything to do with the first in the series.
The characters are flat, they are boring.  They bring nothing to the series and leave readers bored and wondering why they read this book to begin with. There is parts of the story I felt lost and confused trying to figure out who was working with whom and why?
The story is writing like a tongue and cheek story but it falls flat and the jokes are anything but funny.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the advance copy.

Synopsis:
Dr. Melia Rose and ex-Marine Johnny Hunt had it all. Until one night in Atlantic City changed everything. She’s left shocked, confused, and alone, unable to come to terms with what happened.

Hell, she doesn’t even know what happened; she just knows her life has taken a one-eighty.

Now, Melia’s started over—again—in her secluded, boring life in the swamps of Florida. The people are great, she has a housekeeper who may or may not be Bette Davis reincarnated, and it’s quiet. But when her ex-husband shows up, dropping a bomb of epic proportions, her new life is a whole lot more dangerous than she could have ever imagined.

There’s nothing Johnny wants more than to undo the damage from the past. The secrets he’s been carrying have been eating away at him, but protecting Melia was more important than anything else. Even his own life. He managed to save her last time, but the danger is close—too close. In order to save her once more from his demons, Johnny will have to come clean…about everything. 

About The Author:

Jenna Ryan was born in Victoria, British Columbia. After long stints in different cities across Canada, she returned home to Vancouver Island where she has lived ever since. She has had thirty-one books published in the Harlequin Intrigue series. Her ideas come from real life, and she is helped in her writing by her sister Kathy.

She enjoys reading and is a big fan of women's fiction, psychological suspense and mystery novels. She also enjoys watching classic suspense movies. She loves strong heroines, heroes with character, romance stories and a good whodunit by the fire on a rainy night.

Her heritage is a blend of English and Irish — which is probably where the gift of blarney comes from. She is unmarried, but involved with a wonderful man. She also has a little white cat named Sheena.

Whenever she is not writing, she travels as much as time and finances will allow. After North America, Europe is her favorite continent to explore, because it was in those countries that many of the myths and legends she drew upon in her early years of writing were born.

Growing up, she considered various careers and dabbled in several of them, including, after university, the travel industry, tourism, sales and modeling. Work in the fashion industry in Toronto and Montreal gave her an interesting peek into various aspects of that world. She learned that where money, power and people come together, there will always be unpredictability — an element she feels is essential to a strong mystery. Add a healthy measure of personal conflict, an intriguing setting and a spicy romance into the mix, and you have the ingredients for what she believes to be the best of all possible stories — a great romantic suspense.

Book Review: NewsReal A View Though the Lens When.... By Tim Ortman

Title: NewsReal A View Though the Lens When....

Author: Tim Ortman

Stars: 5 stars

Review:
Tim Ortman writes the way he thinks and speaks which makes NewsReal a must read for anyone who has wondered what happens behind the camera. From start to finish, this book will give readers a real,detailed and humorous look at what it's like to make the news work every day.
Tim creates a world that readers will not want to stop reading from what it's like to carry a camera to living through action packed stories that changed the way everyone watched the news. 
I couldn't put the book down soaking up every little detail the author Tim Ortman wrote.

Thank you to the publisher for the advance copy of NewsReal.  

Synopsis:

In today’s thousand channel news environment, it’s tough to envision a time when everyone was, more or less, on the same page; to recall a less contentious and fractured framework for disseminating information.

Such a time did truly exist. Sometime between Marconi and Musk, viewers enjoyed a reliable and secure sense that their news was true. It was the heyday of global network news coverage. Like today, viewers opinions differed wildly and like today, the narratives told often featured protagonists and antagonists. It was the delivery mechanism then that so contrasts the way we get our news today.

This was a time when the news landscape was owned by the “Big 3” networks. Yet, it was far from a monopoly. Each “Net” fervently represented their own historic brand and whose founders and stewards viewed news gathering and reporting as a sort of civic responsibility bestowed upon them by the FCC. The news divisions, with their vast assemblage of domestic and international bureaus, were everywhere and anywhere news happened. Their fact-based reporting and broadcasting were void of the talk show opinions and interpretations so omnipresent today. Budgets were enormous because viewership was enormous. Everyone’s ‘set’ was ‘tuned-in’ to the national news to get the straight scoop on what was happening in the world. Anchormen were more trusted than Presidents. The reporting was riveting, the stories were real. There was nothing ‘Fake’ about it…just like today. 

About The Author

Tim Ortman spent 35 years working in television news, having worked for all major U.S television news networks. As an Emmy-award winning cameraman and producer, his understanding of the overall television production process is comprehensive with over three decades of experience shooting, lighting, editing, writing story editing, and producing.

Ortman’s globe-trotting travels have taken him on assignments to five continents, covering everything from war, revolution, terrorist attacks, and famine to Cold War Summits, the fall of Communism, Olympiads and Olympic Park bombings, presidential elections and the occasional press conference. But his chops were truly made on the front lines of news as part of the Foreign Press Corps. Based in Europe during the 80’s as an impressionable 20-something staff cameraman for NBC News, Ortman’s understanding of and appreciation for the news business was formed when it was at its most trustworthy zenith.

Book Review Collision Point (Brute Force #1) by Lora Leigh

Title: Collision Point (Brute Force #1)

Author: Lora Leigh

Stars: 2 1/2 stars

Review:
The story takes a back seat to talking about sex, dreaming about sex and sex. Collision Point will have readers confused as they read about Riordan and Amara who seem to have come out of no were. The story isn't a stand alone even though there is no story before it. Readers will feel as if they should already know the different characters as well as what introduced to the story. 
The main story is lost in the sex scenes that seem to dominate the story to the point of distraction.  Amara isn't feisty as she is more annoying and Riordan is more of a over sex teenager than a grown adult.
The story will leave readers confused, lost and bored.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the advance copy.

Synopsis:

Riordan “Rory” Malone is a force to be reckoned with. A member of the Brute Force Protection Agency and an operative working with the Elite Ops, Rory is the fiercest of warriors and protectors. Honed from the strong Irish stock of their grandfather and sharpened to a razor’s edge, Malone men live for one single purpose: to protect the women who own them, body and soul. From the moment he saw Amara Resnova, he knew she could be that woman.

But Amara, daughter of an alleged notorious crime lord, is a force in her own right. When she betrays her father, she’s finds herself in the arms of a man who is dangerous for her body and soul.

Can Rory keep Amara safe while protecting his own heart? Can Amara trust Rory not to break hers even as the danger mounts, threatening to take them and their passion to a breaking point?

Mass Market Paperback, 336 pages

Published February 27th 2018 by St. Martin's Press

About The Author:

Lora Leigh lives in the rolling hills of Kentucky, often found absorbing the ambience of this peaceful setting. She dreams in bright, vivid images of the characters intent on taking over her writing life, and fights a constant battle to put them on the hard drive of her computer before they can disappear as fast as they appeared. Lora’s family, and her writing life co-exist, if not in harmony, in relative peace with each other. Surrounded by a menagerie of pets, friends, and a teenage son who keeps her quick wit engaged, Lora’s life is filled with joys, aided by her fans whose hearts remind her daily why she writes.

Book Review: Bones Don't Lie (Morgan Dane #3) by Melinda Leigh

Title: Bones Don't Lie (Morgan Dane #3)

Author: Melinda Leigh 

Stars: 4 stars

Review:
I have yet to be disappointed with anything Melinda Leigh has written. Her characters are well developed and continue to grow as the series progresses.  Every character dead or alive as a reason and purpose to be in the Morgan Dane series.

Readers will be pulled in from page one until the last page giving readers everything they have come to know and love from Melinda Leigh's writing.  She bring characters from different series and we read as they have changed and grown since readers read them last.

The romance in the story progresses and will pull at readers heart string as Morgan finds love again and her family feels.

The author allows readers to grieve with a mom, wife and friend. They will feel Morgans pain as she moves forward. Readers will feel the same emotions as Morgan and her girls as they read this series.
I love how she address Bulling in this day and age. I agree it is no longer acceptable to allow Children to behave and call it Kids will be kids. 

This could be a stand alone novel however I would recommend anyone picking up the Morgan Dane Series start with book 1 to really understand the different characters.

 The mystery that has had readers wondering will be answered and will have reader sissified with the ending.

Thank you to Netgalley, the author Melinda Leigh and Montlake for the advance copy of this series.


Melinda Leigh you never disappoint!


Synopsis:
Shocking evidence hits close to home for attorney Morgan Dane and PI Lance Kruger as Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s acclaimed series continues.

Private investigator Lance Kruger was just a boy when his father vanished twenty-three years ago. Since then he’s lived under the weight of that disappearance—until his father’s car is finally dredged up from the bottom of Grey Lake. It should be a time for closure, except for the skeleton found in the trunk. A missing person case gone cold has become one of murder, and Lance and attorney Morgan Dane must face the deadly past that’s risen to the surface.

For Lance, the investigation yields troubling questions about a man he thought he knew. But memories can play dirty tricks. For Morgan, uncovering each new lie comes with a disquieting fear that someone is out there watching, because someone is killing every witness tied to this decades-old crime. Morgan and Lance follow in the shadows of a relentless killer and walk right into the cross fire.


About The Author:

Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh is a fully recovered banker. A life-long lover of books, she started writing as a way to preserve her sanity while raising her kids. Over the next few years, she learned a few things about writing a book. The process was much more fun than analyzing financial statements, and she decided to turn her hobby into a career. Melinda’s debut novel, SHE CAN RUN, was nominated for Best First Novel by the International Thriller Writers. She is a RITA® Award Finalist and has earned three Daphne du Maurier Award nominations, two Silver Falchion Awards, and a Golden Leaf.

Melinda holds a 2nd degree belt in Kenpo Karate. She’s dabbled in Arnis stick fighting, studied Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and taught women’s self-defense. She lives in a messy house in the suburbs with her husband, two kids, a couple of shelter dogs and two rescue cats who clearly run the show. With such a pleasant life, she has no explanation for the sometimes dark and disturbing nature of her imagination. Find out more about Melinda by visiting melindaleigh.com.