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Review Tour: Clean Win

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  Clean Win by  Kevin R. Doyle   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~   GENRE :  Myst ery   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~   BLURB:   Laura Mosby is like a lot of young women, working in a job she doesn't like, looking for a way out, and doing her best to enjoy her privacy. When she dies a violent death at the hands of an intruder, it's at first brushed off as a standard homicide. But when Lieutenant Santiago, the supervising detective, comes across evidence linking her death to a local politician, he begins to see the faint threads of a much nastier sch eme. Desperate to shield his people from potential harm, he turns to Sam Quinton, full -time gym owner and part-time private investigator, to help solve Laura's murder and help the police department evade the wrath of City Hall.   ~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~   Excerpt:   We sat there for another minute or two before I prodded the cop. “Laura Mosby.”   “Right.” Santiago sat a little straighter, as if pulling himself back on track....

Book Blast: Poetry from My Heart

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  This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions . Paul Guerin will be awarding a $10 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour. "Poetry: writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm." "Poetry: a literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm." Poetry means different things to different people. For me, it is all about feelings. If it captures the emotions of the reader, a poem will resonate and fill the soul. It can mean everything to one person and not much at all to another. The mood of the reader, and no one else, determines the outcome. For example, love poems are wonderful when you are in love, and their...

Book Blast: The World Council

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This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions . Norm Meech will be awarding a $10 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour. Ricky Montgomery had just graduated high school in June 1976 and was enjoying life as an 18-year-old teenager. He was hired by the Dawson City Police Force, and after graduating from police college he was assigned to work as an undercover operative in a motorcycle gang. Ricky, although happy, was struggling living his double life as a cop and biker. Then it happened: during a biker war, Ricky's life was saved by agents from the World Council (TWC). TWC was created by the world's leaders to prevent manmade disasters from happening and to liaise with aliens who have been monitoring mankind for hundreds of years. TWC's mandate, with the assistance of aliens, is to ensure mankind's continued existence. TWC is a highl...