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WRATH OF THE FURIES: Roman detective Gordianus the Finder tries to go undercover amid angry Greeks bearing arms – #bookreview

October 13, 2015 by Sagecreek Productions LLC

Wrath of the Furies A Novel of the Ancient World Steven Saylor Minotaur Books – hardback, Kindle As a young student, I deliberately avoided the ancient world—all of those armless and headless statues, magnificent carved-stone structures collapsed into rubble, “wonders of the world,” and gods and goddesses who allegedly had both magical powers and … Continue reading WRATH OF THE FURIES: Roman detective Gordianus the Finder tries to go undercover amid angry Greeks bearing arms – #bookreview

The Sun is God – Adrian McKinty takes readers well off the beaten path with this new historical mystery – #bookreview

September 8, 2014 by Sagecreek Productions LLC

The Sun is God Adrian McKinty Seventh Street Books – Kindle, paperback Take a weird but true exotic setting. Throw in some real people and real murders. Add to the mix a fictional investigator: Will Prior, an ex-military police lieutenant who deliberately got himself cashiered from the British army during the Boer War following … Continue reading The Sun is God – Adrian McKinty takes readers well off the beaten path with this new historical mystery – #bookreview

The Troubles Trilogy: Adrian McKinty’s Northern Ireland crime novels are powerful, engrossing reading – #bookreview

March 10, 2014March 11, 2014 by Sagecreek Productions LLC

In the Morning I’ll Be Gone Book Three: The Troubles Trilogy Adrian McKinty (Seventh Street Books, paperback) I wish I had discovered The Troubles Trilogy and Detective Sean Duffy much sooner than Book Three. I really don’t like reading trilogies in reverse. But Adrian McKinty is an amazingly good crime novelist. And now that I have … Continue reading The Troubles Trilogy: Adrian McKinty’s Northern Ireland crime novels are powerful, engrossing reading – #bookreview

Man in the Blue Moon – Fine Southern fiction by Michael Morris – #bookreview #fiction

August 7, 2012August 7, 2012 by Sagecreek Productions LLC

Man in the Blue Moon Michael Morris (Tyndale, paperback – Kindle) Book reviewers, particularly Southern U.S. book reviewers, frequently pick through new “Southern” novels looking for “echoes” of William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, Harper Lee, Eudora Welty, or Walker Percy. (I wish some of them also would look for echoes of that good but now almost-forgotten … Continue reading Man in the Blue Moon – Fine Southern fiction by Michael Morris – #bookreview #fiction

Five Dark Riders – A novel rich with history, intrigue, action & romance – #fiction #bookreview

July 24, 2012August 6, 2012 by Sagecreek Productions LLC

Five Dark Riders Bill Sloan (Zipp City Press, paperback, Kindle) Bill Sloan is an acclaimed historian and veteran newspaper journalist previously nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He also is one of America’s best writers of World War II Pacific-theater combat narratives. (His latest, Undefeated: America’s Heroic Fight for Bataan and Corregidor, was published in April.) … Continue reading Five Dark Riders – A novel rich with history, intrigue, action & romance – #fiction #bookreview

Steven Saylor’s ‘The Seven Wonders’ – A fine intro to Gordianus the Finder, famous sleuth of ancient Rome – #bookreview #in #mystery #fiction

May 16, 2012May 16, 2012 by Sagecreek Productions LLC

The Seven Wonders: A Novel of the Ancient World Steven Saylor (Minotaur Books, hardback, list price $25.99; Kindle edition, $12.99) To be honest, until I picked up this book, I had paid zero attention to best-selling author Steven Saylor’s long-running Roma Sub Rosa series of mysteries set in ancient times, in the Roman Empire. The hero … Continue reading Steven Saylor’s ‘The Seven Wonders’ – A fine intro to Gordianus the Finder, famous sleuth of ancient Rome – #bookreview #in #mystery #fiction

An omnibus of 3 novels from ‘the greatest Western writer of all time’ – #bookreview

January 9, 2012 by Sagecreek Productions LLC

Long Way to Texas: Three Novels By Elmer Kelton (Forge, hardback, list price $25.99) Elmer Kelton, author of more than 50 books, primarily Western novels, died in 2009. But his works live on in popular collections and reprints. This new omnibus from Forge gathers together three “rare” Kelton Westerns: Long Way to Texas, Joe Pepper, … Continue reading An omnibus of 3 novels from ‘the greatest Western writer of all time’ – #bookreview

The Silver Lotus – fine historical fiction by Thomas Steinbeck – #bookreview

November 7, 2011 by Sagecreek Productions LLC

The Silver Lotus By Thomas Steinbeck (Counterpoint, hardback, list price $25.00; Kindle, $9.99) Written in the style and language of a 19th-century novel, The Silver Lotus is a grand, sweeping, absorbing tale of Pacific seafaring, romance, family, and business and cultural interactions that ultimately help spur the growth and development of the Northern California coast. This … Continue reading The Silver Lotus – fine historical fiction by Thomas Steinbeck – #bookreview

Fante: A Family’s Legacy of Writing, Drinking and Surviving – #bookreview #writing #screenwriting

September 6, 2011September 6, 2011 by Sagecreek Productions LLC

Fante: A Family’s Legacy of Writing, Drinking and Surviving By Dan Fante (Harper Perennial, $14.99, paperback; $9.99, Kindle) Italian-American novelist and screenwriter John Fante wanted his son Dan to become a plumber or electrician, not a writer or worse, an actor. He had strong and bitter reasons behind that desire, as Dan Fante movingly notes … Continue reading Fante: A Family’s Legacy of Writing, Drinking and Surviving – #bookreview #writing #screenwriting

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