Showing posts with label suspense. Show all posts
Showing posts with label suspense. Show all posts

Sunday, April 29, 2018

Political Dirty Trick


From the author:
A Dirty Trick

For some time, I had been thinking about writing a novel that included a slippery slope.  A normally good person, for one reason or the other, crosses over “the line.”  Now they are on a slippery slope and any movement at all is likely to take them further down the slope, further away from the line that defined them as a “good person.”
In fact, I was going to call the book, A Slippery Slope. 
Then came all the uproar in politics. It seemed like each politician was more than happy to trash the other.
That, and the slippery slope rattled around in my brain for months.  As they began to run into one another, I decided to use the election venue to look at this person on the slippery slope. 
The result was my newest suspense book, Political Dirty Trick.  It is Book #3 in the Crystal Moore suspense series.  (A few months before I was ready to publish, I was corresponding with a writer I know. She mentioned she was ready to release a new book, titled “A Slippery Slope.”  When  I told her I was about ready to release one with the same name, she said to go ahead, it wouldn’t bother her. But I decided not to do that. So, it became Political Dirty Trick.)
In Political Dirty Trick, a basically good person is convinced to help a candidate by creating a dirty trick that would give the opponent lots of negative publicity and perhaps hurt him in the polls.  She agreed, convincing herself that it wasn’t really wrong. All is fair in politics.
But in the course of creating this, a man is killed. Now, she panics and tries to cover her tracks. This, as could be expected, leads to more problems. And before long, she will do anything to avoid the police. The slope is steeper and slipperier. 
Crystal is a good friend of the candidate on whom the dirty trick is played.  As she tries to determine who is causing the problems, she becomes a “loose end” that needs to be snipped off.  And much of the novel is trying to save Crystal, as well as save the campaign.
Political Dirty Trick releases in mid-May.  It is available for pre-publication orders at:  https://amzn.to/2pIHMqs     

James Callan



After a successful career in mathematics and computer science, receiving grants from the National Science Foundation and NASA, and being listed in Who’s Who in Computer Science and Two Thousand Notable Americans, James R. Callan turned to his first love—writing.  He has had four non-fiction books published.  He now concentrates on his favorite genre, mystery/suspense. His twelfth book releases in May, 2018


Sunday, February 21, 2016

The Killing Land by Jacqueline Seewald





The Killing Land by Jacqueline Seewald is an historic novel that captures the heart of the American West.

This novel is set principally in the Arizona Territory of the early l880's where a courageous settler from the East and an aristocratic cattle baron become involved in a love/hate relationship. The two, although attracted to each other, are initially distrustful and antagonistic toward one another. The dangers they face draw them together.

Mary suspects that Cal is responsible for trying to drive the homesteaders and sheepherders off the land cattlemen consider rightfully theirs. When her uncle is murdered, Mary intends to discover who is responsible and why. In so doing, she becomes a person of interest to a vicious outlaw.

First Reviews of The Killing Land:
"The rugged West, a greedy villain, violence, and true love…Jacqueline 
Seewald brings it all."  
Pamela Nowak 
2014 Colorado Book Award 
HOLT Medallion Winner 
********
Historical Novel Society 

(Review Excerpt)
“The Killing Land is set in the Arizona territory in the 1880s, and opens with an intriguing hook that snags the reader’s attention quickly… Seewald does a fine job with character development, including with her secondary characters. Several are intriguing and complex... The plot itself is quite detailed as well…She does well with some of the state history, such as the Tewksbury and Graham clan feud. Fans of western romance should be pleased with this novel.”
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Multiple award-winning author, Jacqueline Seewald, has taught creative, expository and technical writing at Rutgers University as well as high school English. She also worked as both an academic librarian and an educational media specialist. Sixteen of her books of fiction have been published to critical praise including books for adults, teens and children. Her short stories, poems, essays, reviews and articles have appeared in hundreds of diverse publications and numerous anthologies such as: THE WRITER, L.A. TIMES, READER’S DIGEST, PEDESTAL, SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY MAGAZINE, OVER MY DEAD BODY!, GUMSHOE REVIEW, THE MYSTERY MEGAPACK, LIBRARY JOURNAL, and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. She’s also an amateur landscape artist and loves blue grass music. Her writer’s blog can be found at: http://jacquelineseewald.blogspot.com