I’ve never seen a book that starts with, “Uber Dave eyed me in the rearview mirror…”. Beyond the Veil starts with a wild seventy-five-mile Uber ride up the New York State Thruway with a crazy lady wearing a wedding dress in the back seat screaming “Faster, faster!” Destination? The mental institution that houses her run-away groom’s sister.
Frieda McFadden, now a part-time physician specializing in brain injury, is a multiple award-winning author of psychological thrillers. She considers her training gives her an advantage in writing such works. Most, like The Boyfriend, are standalones, so no worries about coming into the middle of a series.
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This is my first Jake Longly thriller, but I did not feel lost and was able to keep the players straight. An enjoyable mystery, it reminds me a bit of the Travis McGee books I read when I was younger. Different from those older novels are the multiple points of view which give more insight into what the characters are thinking. This might be book seven of the series, but it does a very good job as a stand-alone.
Apparently, I didn’t get the author memo about crafting your protagonist in the image of someone other than yourself. Well, I did get the memo, just several years after I’d written two novels with Dr. Jake Bendel leading the charge.
Well, not exactly a new me, but a new voice for my fiction. My published books have always been in the voice of the experienced, logical small-town chief of police Samuel Craddock. Having grown up with a grandfather and father who were storytellers, I always had the voice of a man in my head. It seemed natural to write in the voice of a man. An older man loosely based on my grandfather.
After their mother and father died, Crystal and Cory share the family home. They don’t spend a lot of time together. He lives in the basement and operates his own dog training school while she has taken over the second floor and is a new detective with the Chicago Police Department. They cross paths on the first floor.
“Hello darkness, my old friend...”
Is darkness a friend to a blind woman? In Wait Until Dark, the thriller Visalia Players production at the Visalia Ice House Theater, darkness can turn out to be an ally.
Bestselling author Thomas Locke reflects on how his new mystery, set in Florida, may or may not have eerily predicted sentiment around recent events – and how he started co-authoring books with a young man of a different generation, nationality, and race.
Google used to think that I was a 35-year-old male. I was in my mid-50s at the time, and I’m a cisgendered female, so I found this revelation highly amusing. Google’s algorithms have gotten a lot better, so sadly, the jig is up on that one. But the reason Google got confused back then was that I was into reading a site called Lifehacker.com.
Have you ever worked with a colleague who could be suspected of having some ulterior motives? Too eager to sit in meetings outside their remit, taking copious notes, making mysterious calls? Have you witnessed sales executives or professionals brought in by management and entrusted with their corporate secrets? Seen an ‘IT technician’ sitting in a corner, who might be nothing of the sort and making surreptitious recordings?
