What's New in Books? by Fran Joyce
I am blessed to work with a talented team of writers and guest contributors every month to celebrate this awful awesome life in This Awful Awesome Life.
It has come to my attention that some of these people have recently released or are about to release new books. Congratulations to Jim O’Brien, Annette Dashofy, Robin Barefield and J.J. Hensley!
Jim O’Brien is a best-selling author, sports historian, columnist, writing coach, and public speaker.
He has a new book called Franco, Rocky & Friends – It Pays to be a Good Guy featuring stories about the Steelers of the ’70s.
Through interviews with Steeler legends, Jim uncovers why Chuck Noll and the Steelers were the NFL Team of the Decade and how Rocky Bleier and Franco Harris fit into the picture. Learn how a team full of good guys managed to be so successful and win four Super Bowls under Chuck Noll's direction.
To order your copy of Franco, Rocky & Friends – It Pays to be a Good Guy go to www.Jimobrien.com (the home of James P. O'Brien Publications) and use the order form provided on his website or follow this link, http://form.jotform.co/form/32274998467876 to go directly to the order form.
Fair Game is the latest book in the Zoe Chambers Mystery Series by Annette Dashofy.
(Annette Dashofy’s photo by Holly Tonini)
Paramedic Zoe Chambers is spending a week at the Monongahela County Fair, showing her horse and manning the ambulance, hoping to find a much-needed diversion from recent events. But, instead of an escape, Zoe becomes entangled in a new mystery. She must confront a bossy nemesis while reconnecting with a former teenage crush from her 4-H days and bonding with a troubled teen.
Back in Vance Township, after a missing woman turns up dead, Police Chief Pete Adams must retrace her steps to recreate her mysterious final hours.
A cryptic phone call sends Pete to the fairgrounds where he and Zoe make a gruesome discover after the annual school bus demolition derby. Is this new homicide connected to the murder in Vance Township? Will Pete’s determination to catch a killer and Zoe’s quest to reunite a family—put both on a collision course with a violent and desperate felon?
Fair Game and other books in the Zoe Chambers Mystery series are available at independent booksellers in your area:
amazon.com, https://www.amazon.com/Fair-Game-Zoe-Chambers-Mystery/dp/163511499
Barnes and Noble (barnesandnoble.com) https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fair-game-annette-dashofy/1130590637
Robin Barefield’s fourth Alaska wilderness mystery, Karluk Bones is now available.
Two men recently discharged from the air force set out for a hunting trip on Kodiak Island in Alaska. Instead of the adventure of a lifetime, they find themselves embroiled in a never-ending nightmare.
Over forty years later, biologist Jane Marcus and her friends discover human remains near Karluk Lake in the middle of the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge.
What happened? Was the gunshot wound to the skull suicide, or a homicide? Who died in the middle of the wilderness, and when did he die? Jane has questions and she turns to Alaska State Trooper Sergeant Dan Patterson for answers, but Sergeant Patterson is busy investigating the recent murder of a floatplane pilot on the island. Was the pilot shot by one of his passengers, another pilot, campers in the area where his body was found or did his wife hire someone to kill him? The number of suspects in the case overwhelms Patterson, but a notebook in the dead pilot’s pocket provides clues to the last weeks of his life.
With no time to spare for old bones, Patterson gives Jane permission to research the remains she found near Karluk Lake. Jane’s investigation seems harmless to Patterson, but it awakens a decades-old crime someone believes they buried long ago.
Can Patterson find the pilot’s killer before they leave the island? Will Jane’s curiosity put her life in danger? What evil really lurks at Karluk Lake?
The audiobook of Robin’s third novel, The Fisherman’s Daughter, was also recently released and is available on Audible.
Karluk Bones is available through the following links and at other online booksellers. Grab your copy today!
Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594338906/ref=dbs_a_def_awm_bibl_vppi_i0
Barnes and Noble (barnesandnoble.com) https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/robin%20barefield/_/N-0
Author Masterminds at https://authormasterminds.com/robin-barefield
The new Trevor Galloway mystery, Forgiveness Dies by J.J. Hensley will be released October 14, 2019, but you can preorder and get this book on the day it comes out.
Trevor Galloway has just been released from a psychiatric facility. The former narcotics detective and unlicensed PI has no idea how to begin the next chapter of his life. After losing the love of his life and exacting revenge upon those responsible, he is now irreparably broken, heavily medicated, and unemployable.
When former Secret Service agent Nick Van Metre contacts him with a job offer, Galloway sees a glimmer of hope, but when the head of Metal Security hands him a stack of photos and solicits his help investigating a series of threats against a controversial presidential candidate, Dennis Hackney, the former detective is stunned.
Galloway initially takes the case, but after he reports an encounter with intruders who seem to have left no trace in his home he begins to question his own sanity. After Nick Van Metre turns up dead and Hackney is attacked, Galloway’s history of extreme violence makes him the focal point of multiple investigations.
Galloway must pull clues from the stack of photos and search for answers while dodging bullets in Pittsburgh and Savannah.
Can Galloway solve the case before someone else dies?
Each chapter in the book is linked to a photograph from a roll of film and you’ll be hooked until the last photo is revealed.
Pre-order this book at:
To find out more about J.J Hensley and the Trevor Galloway Mystery series visit his website at:
http://www.hensley-books.com/books.html