Susan Fleet in her noir detective outfit
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I write suspense thrillers set in New Orleans where I lived for 8 years. I'm also a musician and music historian who specializes in women instrumentalists. I profile many of them, jazz and classical, on my website.
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The title of Tom Bryson's excellent crime novel, Sarcophagus, only hints at the dire events to come. One thinks of a sarcophagus as a receptacle for a human corpse. In this case, it refers to the cement enclosure built around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power plant after the meltdown there in 1986. Secrets, lies and betrayals followed. So it is in this gripping thriller. In 1985 Greg Stevens was a bomb disposal expert for the UK Royal Engineers. Wounded by an IRA sniper, he almost died. Now he's a recently widowed businessman. Because he was born forty years ago in a village near Kiev, the UK government sends him there to evaluate a possible collaboration with Ukrainian businessmen… Read more
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In Tom Bryson's thriller, Too Smart to Die, a killer is on the loose in Birmingham, England. Detective Chief Inspector Matt Proctor investigates a particularly gruesome murder. He's recently divorced and his 18-year-old daughter lives with him. Unbeknownst to Proctor, she and a woman friend are playing cyber-games with the killer and his creepy cyber-cult gang. In a series of suspenseful encounters, the killer threatens the lives of Proctor and his daughter. Thanks to Bryson's deft descriptions, Birmingham's landscape comes alive, and his portrayal of police corruption is spot on. Hopefully, the budding romance between Proctor and his alluring female assistant will come to fruition in… Read more
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In A Midsummer Eve's Nightmare, Donna Fletcher Crow delivers many entrancing moments and plenty of suspense. Newly-weds Elizabeth and Richard Spencer take a second honeymoon in Ashland, Oregon. Why? Like the author, they're experts on Shakespeare and his plays, and the Ashland Shakespeare Festival, featuring a replica of an Elizabethan theater, is located there. As an added bonus, Elizabeth's younger sister, Victoria, designs the costumes for the plays. But soon after their arrival, the couple encounters a series of sinister events. And a murder. Crow provides plenty of suspects in her twisty murder plot, and the killer's identity remains a mystery until the very end. Crow's… Read more
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