Last But Not Least: A Review of Dick Francis' Last Novel, Crossfire

This is Dick Francis' last novel, co-authored by his son, Felix Francis. The story has more twists and turns than a Pittsburgh highway, but it comes out so cohesively that the reader never gets lost. Recovering from a war injury, Tom Forsyth deals with unrequited love, a dysfunctional mother, blackmail, fraud, tax evasion problems and more in this excellent final novel by Mr. Francis.

Review By Guest Author Dan Jenkins

Dick Francis was the Queen of England's jockey for four seasons. When he retired from horse racing, he tried his hand at writing a novel about horse racing. It turned out that he had a talent, and he developed a large number of fans worldwide, including the Queen of England.


I've read many of Dick Francis' more than 40 novels. I always know that a Francis novel is going to be next to impossible to put down. In fact, I read Crossfire in one day. (It was the Reader's Digest Condensed Book version.) It was as good as all of his work.

Well, to be fair, Mr. Francis had a co-author on this book, his son, Felix. However, I could not see any substantial difference in style from his other novels that I've read. Perhaps his son brought in more current events, such as the main character, Tom Forsyth, being a Captain in the British Army, who served in Afghanistan. The story begins with his war injury, the loss of his foot, to an IED (improvised explosive device). Once released from the hospital, months later, Captain Forsyth returns to his childhood home and a frosty reception by his mother and step-father.

But here, the story really begins, because Forsyth quickly learns that his mother, a race horse trainer, has been defrauded and is being blackmailed. The Captain turns detective and starts to look into who is blackmailing his mother.

He finds himself kidnapped and left to die. He investigates the death of his mother's accountant. And he learns that he is in a very deadly game played by two men who appear to be upstanding citizens.

Horse racing is just the context of his mother's life. The real story is in the mystery of who is committing the fraud and blackmail.

As always, Francis knows how to tell a story. He knows how to make it very interesting without getting bogged down. In his more than 40 international best selling novels, he always develops the story line in believable and coherent ways.

Francis published his first novel in 1962. The setting for that story, Dead Cert, was the world of horse racing. For the next 38 years he wrote a novel a year, missing only 1998 (when he published a short-story collection).

Dick Francis died in February 2010, just months before this novel was published. He will be missed by many, including myself. But, I still have many more of his novels to read, so he really hasn't left us.

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Last But Not Least: A Review of Dick Francis' Last Novel, Crossfire

Elixir is Coming Summer of 2014! #Book Trailer

Meet 14-year-old Sean Malone. He has an IQ above 200, a full-ride scholarship to one of the country’s top universities, and more than one million dollars from his winning streak on Jeopardy. However, Sean wishes he could just be normal.

But his life is anything but normal. The US government manipulates him, using him as a codebreaker in pursuit of a drug lord and killing innocent people along the way.

For reasons related to his personal security, Sean finds himself in Rome, building a new life under a new name, abandoning academics, and hiding his genius from everyone. When he’s 18 he falls in love. The thrills begin again when he learns that his girlfriend is critically ill and it’s up to him to use his intellect to find a cure, a battle pitting him against a multi-billion-dollar pharmaceutical company and the demons of his past.

A Modern Day Plague? The Moses Virus by Jack Hyland

Archeologists on a dig in modern day Rome discover a long buried virus. Developed by the Nazis and hidden away in a secret lab beneath the Forum who knew of it's existence? Forensic archaeologist Tom Stewart seeks out the clues and races to stop and destroy the powerful virulent strain from being unleashed via the world's food supply. 

The Moses Virus is a  brilliant and brainy suspense thriller that leads us across Europe revealing secrets kept deep within the Vatican and introduces us to the sinister mind that wants to use the vicious strain to control the world. 

Jack Hyland pens a rich historical background, dramatic scenery and a perverse plot that turns a sedate archeology professor into an adventurous sleuth out to learn the truth and stop a madman.

Just when you thought there was nothing thought provoking being offered in the fiction world along comes this surprising and amazing read!

Jack Hyland is the author of a number of travel articles syndicated by Hearst and the New York Times, as well as a biography, Evangelism’s First Modern Media Star: The Life of Reverend Bill Stidger, which Brendan Gill (author of Here at The New Yorker) proclaimed “an excellent piece of work . . . a remarkable accomplishment.”

Best Selling Author, CJ Lyons, Includes Her First Lucy Gaurdino FBI Thriller, Snake Skin, in the 7 book collection, Adrenaline Rush

I don't believe  I did this review in 2011! C J asked that anyone who had reviewed Snake Skin to please post it on the site for a 7 book thriller collection whose proceeds will be contibuted to charity (http://amzn.to/SpgqCX) called Adrenaline Rush: 7 High Octane Thrillers, so I thought I'd post it here as well.

Snake Skin by C.J. Lyons

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Author CJ Lyons shows her command of the craft in Snake Skin, the story of Supervisory Special Agent of the FBI Lucy Guardino heads the Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement Squad/Crimes Against Children (SAFES/CAC) detail in Pittsburgh. Published by Create Space and released January 19, 2011, Snake Skin shows an artist at her best. The characters are detailed and rooted in reality, the plot tense, gripping and rapidly paced.

Lucia Theresa Guardino was recently promoted and moved her family from Virginia to Pittsburgh. As if the stress of her job and the efforts of trying to insulate her family from the realities of her what she does and sees everyday aren’t enough her daughter, Megan, 12, doesn’t plan to let her Mom off easy for uprooting her and making her leave her home and friends. Ahh, but then there’s her handsome patient husband psychologist Nick Callahan who is never knocked off his stride.

Lucy’s newest investigation is the disappearance of 14 year old Ashley Yeager from the home she shares with her image conscious divorced mother. She understands the Ashley would want to leave a life where you felt like a stranger to your own cold parents—they don’t know anything about her life they’re so self-centered. But did she leave of her own accord or was she forced?

As Lucy traces Ashley’s steps and activities for clues she also must deal with feeling like a stranger to her own family, much like Ashley must, a ruthless and devious reporter who will go to any lengths to get her story and the local law enforcement agencies who want to be in the spotlight as much as they want to solve the case.

CJ Lyons, as a pediatric ER doctor, has aided police and prosecutors with cases of child abuse, rape and homicide and acted as a crisis counselor and victim advocate.

Ms. Lyons first novel, the award winning LIFELINES became a National Bestseller as well as being the first in her Angels of Mercy series. Her award-winning, critically acclaimed Angels of Mercy series (LIFELINES, WARNING SIGNS, URGENT CARE, and CRITICAL CONDITION) is available in stores now.

Currently she’s working on a suspense series coauthored with Erin Brockovich. To learn more about CJ and her work, go to www.cjlyons.net

Review by Lynnette Phillips

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Ninth Lord of the Night by Diana L. Driver #Mystery #Thriller #VisionaryFiction @JodineTurner

Ninth Lord of the Night by Diana L. Driver

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Attention grabbing from the start - a compelling read for both YA and adult audiences.

Zach and his brother Kyle are shipped off to their uncle at an archaeological dig in Guatemala when his parents' marriage comes apart. Uncle Cliff, Kyle and even Zach see Zach as the 'bad guy' in his own life and maybe even the break-up of the marriage. But there isn't long to dwell on Zach's faults. There's more trouble almost as soon as the teens land in Guatemala...and then Zach's visions start.

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Author W D Gagliani Shares His Journey To Becoming "That Werewolf Guy"

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Wolf's Cut is the latest in W. D. Gagliani's Nick Lupo series.

Congratulations to best-selling author W D Gagliani on the release of novel #5 in the Nick Lupo series! Thanks for sharing with my readers Bill. 

"gagliani has cemented his place in werewolf legend with a muscular and smart series that deserves a much bigger audience..." -- horrorworld


People still ask me why I decided to write thrillers about cops and… werewolves. As if it were a conscious decision. Sometimes stuff just happens, and next thing you know you’re “that werewolf guy.”

How did I get here?

Well, there was a progression of sorts, and it makes more sense than it ought to. As usual, it’s all about the things we read and watched and listened to when we were kids. The things that piqued our interest, the things that tickled our creativity, the things that made us feel as if we belonged even if we were outsiders. The things that gave us shelter from reality, taught us lessons before Life could, and gave us license to dream (even if those dreams were nightmares).

Growing up, I went through a series of phases that would lead me to the place where writing about a homicide cop who is also a werewolf – and who finds himself in the crosshairs of an evil Blackwater-like security contractor made up largely of (you guessed it) werewolves – would seem completely logical.

I didn’t realize I was on a journey, but apparently I was and its highways and byways led me here, to the release of my fifth Nick Lupo thriller. WOLF’S CUT is out from Samhain Publishing on March 4/5.

It was an interesting journey, so let’s step back and map it.

I grew up in northern Italy so, even having been born in the U.S., I began a sort of dual existence: two cultures, two languages, an old country and a new, and old way and a new. Perhaps it would be no surprise or coincidence that just about every character in my Bram Stoker Award-nominated first novel, WOLF’S TRAP, would also display some sort of dual nature. And the protagonist named Dominic (Nick) Lupo – no, it’s not subtle, is it? – would exhibit the ultimate dual nature of being both human and wolf, man and monster, and eventually both good guy and bad guy. After five novels, with one more in the works, I look at him this way: Lupo’s a good guy, but he’s getting over it.

So here’s the map. 

As a kid, I loved the Universal monster movies, and none as much as ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN. While it was clearly a comedy, it utilized the Universal Monsters straightforwardly enough to scare an impressionable youngster watching alone, late at night. WGN’s Saturday night late “Creature Features” was the perfect vehicle, and I reacted with as much empathy to the tragic Larry Talbot in that comical context as I did to Talbot in THE WOLF MAN. 

But in those days I was also devouring books by Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, as well as the movies based on those authors’ best-known works. My early science fiction forays predictably carried through those books and movies, and even to SF-based JONNY QUEST cartoons, cementing my interest in mixed-genre adventures. As a developing reader, soon I began immersing myself in British thrillers written by Alistair MacLean, Duncan Kyle, Jack Higgins, Ian Fleming, and others… but at the same time I also worked my way through various detective series, including such disparate authors as James Leasor and Ellery Queen, but also Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, eventually settling on the more hardboiled style of Mickey Spillane, Brett Halliday, and others. I was already connecting the harder edge in thrillers to the harder edge of the noir and hardboiled.

I had written plenty of in-school short stories by then, and even started my own novels a couple times – mostly thrillers, war stories, or detective-driven mysteries, channeling my reading preferences.

And I was also dipping into horror, enjoying the work of James Herbert, Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, and similar writers until the day I brought home a grocery rack paperback by some guy named Stephen King. It was new, his second book, ‘SALEM’S LOT, but I’d never heard of him. I was riveted – and very effectively scared! – by the idea of vampires running rampant in a town just like mine. I was a latch-key kid home alone until 8:00 every night, and Wisconsin winter days are dark by 4:15. Reading that novel as the sky darkened outside really worked on me, and in a flash I knew I was lost to horror. Even though I’d experienced good written horror before, this was the first time I decided I wanted to do what this Stephen King was doing.

I was on my way, but for a while I still wrote stories that mostly wanted to be straightforward SF or mysteries. Still, my reading always edged into darker themes. When it came to SF, I gravitated toward the New Wave and its more psychological focus (see Harlan Ellison, for instance). When it came to horror, King introduced me to Peter Straub and others who kept me fed as I also filled in my resume by going back to Poe and Lovecraft. And then I stumbled onto two magazines that forever changed my approach: David Silva’s THE HORROR SHOW and THE TWILIGHT ZONE MAGAZINE, both of which introduced me to writers I hadn’t met before: Robert McCammon, Joe Lansdale, Richard Laymon, David Schow and others who became known (rightly or wrongly) as the Splatterpunks. Their work was a revelation, because suddenly I realized the horror could be brought home as King had done, but maybe the darkness wasn’t supernatural but inherently human. The serial killer next door, as it were.

Starting in the mid-Seventies, music became an important part of my inner life, and as an Italian-American kid I found myself in the room when a fair amount of opera and Italian folk and folk-pop songs were played. You’d think I would have hated it, but I didn’t. I began to appreciate the inherent drama of operatic music and its almost visual storytelling. I didn’t stop at Italian opera and soon found myself also appreciating orchestral highlights from Wagner, among others, and a fair number of highly dramatic Russians. When I started paying attention to radio, first there was the Beatles and various classic rock acts, but along with Pink Floyd I gravitated toward a kind of rock that was in its own way operatic. Some called it pretentious, but to me “progressive rock” (or “art-rock,” sometimes) was simply more ambitious and open to telling stories beyond the usual easier love and love-gone songs. I didn’t realize yet that music – and progressive rock references specifically – would find its way into my novels right from the very start.

And so it was that these and various other influences swirled around in my head, and would sometime later result in WOLF’S TRAP – a novel I considered a one-off, until its sales led the publisher to decree it required a sequel.

And thus a series was born.

It appears that Nick Lupo’s journey hasn’t ended. WOLF’S CUT picks up where WOLF’S EDGE left off, with some unfinished business between the two women who want him, and the crosshairs of some new and old enemies settling on his back. Lupo himself isn’t the same good guy he began as, having developed into the kind of cop who’s too often willing (but mostly forced) to go off-book because his antagonists aren’t always entirely human.

I enjoy forcing Lupo navigate the dark waters of hazy-at-best ethics and morality, trying to hold his life together as more and more impossible requirements are heaped on him, in my mind making him increasingly a Larry Talbot kind of guy (just to bring us almost full-circle). The parallel stories of Lupo’s youth have given way somewhat to those of his father and grandfather in World War II German-occupied (and post-war) Italy, many of which are loosely based on stories passed on by my own parents and grandparents who lived through the period, connecting my reluctant hero with a destiny that goes back much farther than he realizes.

It has been an interesting journey.

After WOLF’S TRAP, the novels WOLF’S GAMBIT and WOLF’S BLUFF introduced and expanded upon the Blackwater-like security contractor Wolfpaw and hinted at their origins (think Nazis and their occult obsessions). The fourth book, WOLF’S EDGE, went there along with Lupo’s male ancestors and closed the loose Wolfpaw trilogy. And now WOLF’S CUT begins a new loose trilogy in which the nature of Lupo’s antagonists shifts slightly and expands, while still harking back to his father’s days on the hunt through the ranks of the real Odessa and its Nazi-smuggling activities.

The journey continues, and I hope some adventurous readers will want to sign up.
I never thought mingling horror, thrillers, Nazis, police procedural, erotica, and crime would be so much fun.

But it is!

I hope you’ll join me.

Contact:
www.wdgagliani.com (includes blog)
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Reprinted with permission from the author. Thanks again Bill.

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Recommended Reading: Dead Center (the Rookie Club, Book 1) by Daniell Girard

Summary

Fifteen years ago, the Rookie Club began as a tight-knit band of female cops struggling for respect from their male peers. Jamie Vail was one of them. So was Natasha Devlin, the woman Jamie caught in bed with her husband.

When Natasha Devlin turns up dead, Jamie wants nothing to do with the investigation. As a seasoned inspector in the sex crimes department, Jamie is facing her own terrifying case—female officers are being brutalized by a stranger leaving no clues. The Rookie Club is under attack, possibly by one of their own. 

Now, Jamie must confront her past and solve the murder of her ex-husband's lover before she becomes the killer's ultimate prize.

Recommended by Lynnette Phillips

If you're looking for an exciting and engaging read at a bargain price (the Kindle edition is only .99 cents) this is it!

I could liken this to checking in on your favorite ensemble TV program but I don't think I'd be doing this marvelous account any favors by doing so. These ladies have each others backs for sure. Add the professionalism, dedication, passion and respect you can feel as you keep turning the pages and you find an incredibly encompassing way to escape your world and enter theirs for a while.

About the Author

As one of four children, Danielle Girard grew up in a house where the person with the best story got heard, and it's probably no surprise that fast-paced suspense stories have always been her favorite. Girard's books have won the Barry Award and been selected for the RT Reviewers Choice Award. Two of her novels have been optioned for movies. Visit her website at www.daniellegirard.com.

Patricia Cornwell book excerpt: Inside the hunt for a killer

Patricia Cornwell's "Dust" book cover (Putnam)

(CBS News) In Patricia Cornwell's "Dust," the author continues the story of Kay Scarpetta in the twenty-first installment of her wildly popular series.

In "Dust," readers are re-introduced to the Scarpetta, chief medical examiner and the director of the Cambridge Forensic Center in Cambridge, Mass., where she coaxes the truth out of dead bodies and grisly acts of violence. At this point in her career, Scarpetta has seen it all and very little throws her, but right now she is exhausted and shaken having just returned from working one of the worst mass killings in U. S. history-the blood bath at the Newtown, Conn., elementary school. She's barely home and recovering from the flu when she gets a call about a dead body discovered on the nearby MIT campus. The grad student, identified as Gail Shipton, has been found on an athletic field wrapped in unusual cloth and posed in a deliberate way that suggests this isn't the killer's first victim.

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Interview with Mark H. Kruger, author of young adult thriller, Overpowered #YA

by Mark F. of Boing-Boing

Despite appearances to the contrary, sinister things are happening behind the squeaky-clean facade of Barrington, Colorado.

When Nica Ashley, a free-spirited high schooler, is sent there to live with her divorced father, she bristles at the curfew, the deadbolts, the rules, and the restrictions enforced by the private security arm of BarTech, the company that runs the town. When she asks her father about the strange things she's noticed, her father evades her questions. But Nica needs to know what's going on. She teams up with the high school's rebels and outcasts to find out, and what she learns changes her in greater ways than she could have imagined. Overpowered is Mark H. Kruger's first novel, a young adult thriller about a town with a dark secret.

I spoke with Mark about Overpowered. We also talked about our love for the work ofRosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives author Ira Levin, Shirley Jackon's "The Lottery," and more.

Mark F.: I'm a fan of Ira Levin. I really likedRosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives. They are both about a male family member deceiving a woman for personal gain. I was wondering -- did you think of Levin's work at all when you wrote Overpowered?

Read what Mark H. Kruger has to say

Suggested Reading: Murder on The Mind (A Jeff Resnick Mystery) by L.L. Bartlett

suggested by Lynnette Phillips

I normally don't like to read psychic or paranormal thrillers but I have to admit I did enjoy this. Maybe it was because even Jeff Resnick himself didn't know what he should think or feel when he first started having flashes of 'knowledge' he shouldn't be privy to. Initially the insights enter his sub-conscience in the form of dreams. Bad dreams.

 Confused by the sudden 'knowledge' he possesses Jeff decides to check it out and find out if the information he's getting is for real and soon finds himself involved in a grisly murder.

Ms Bartlett has written a thriller with an interesting twist you won't want to miss out on. There's nothing super-natural here...just a tale of what might happen if you're hit in the head with a baseball bat when mugged.

New Your Times Bestselling Author L.L. Bartlett writes under several different names . Read more about her and her novels and short stories at her website.

Back on Murder (Roland march Mystery Series) by J. Mark Bertrand #Review

 reviewed by Lynnette Phillips

Roland March is an Houston homicide detective being farmed out to other details when three seemingly unrelated cases cause him to realize this is where he wants to be.

Everyone thinks Roland has finally reached the end of the road when he is the only one to believe there links, although subtle, between the cases.

Bertrand cleverly leads us through the complications and details revealing the secrets. He keeps us enthralled and the pages turning.

About the Author

J. Mark Bertrand is the author of the crime novels BACK ON MURDER (2010), PATTERN OF WOUNDS (2011) and NOTHING TO HIDE (2012), featuring Houston homicide detective Roland March. The Weekly Standard dubbed him "a major crime-fiction talent." He has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston and lives with his wife Laurie in South Dakota. 

Find out more online at www.jmarkbertrand.com.

Gods and Fathers by James LePore

Review by Lynnette Phillips


James Le Pore has become one of my favorite authors so I when he gifted me with his newest title I was anxious to delve into another superbly crafted novel. I wasn't disappointed!

Gods and Fathers opens with Matt DeMarco, a  Manhattan attorney with the District Attorney's office, bringing his summation before the jury in his first murder trial to a brilliant conclusion. Sixteen years later Matt's life is picked up as his son is accused of rape and murder.

The plot entwines international intrigue, determination and intricately polished characters to give us yet another powerful suspense thriller.

Available in both Kindle and paperback formats on Amazon.com
About the Author

James LePore is an attorney who has practiced law for more than two decades, and an accomplished photographer. He is the author of three previous novels, A World I Never Made, Blood of My Brother, and Sons and Princes, as well as the story collection, Anyone Can Die. He lives in Westchester County, NY with his wife, artist Karen Chandler.

Riptide by Paul Levine (Reviewed by Lynnette Phillips)

It got so I had to read the next Solomon & Lord novel by Paul Levine. They were, well, basically fun and exuberant; I could even imagine two of my favorite actors, Tracy & Hepburn, in the title roles.

I didn’t find any of those qualities in Riptide. I even began to wonder if I’d mistaken the author for someone else.

In all fairness the book started out impressively with well developed characters and a plot with great potential. Then my interest began to peter out. I lost the ‘what’s going to happen next’ anxiousness as the action became just too predictable.

I’m sorry Mr. Levine, I was so looking forward to a new favorite.

If you want to check this book out go to http://amzn.to/yFFc7x

Book Synopsis: Jake Lassiter chases a beautiful woman and stolen bonds from Miami to Maui, where in an explosive finale, he learns lessons never taught on the football field or in the courtroom. 

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Can one werewolf stop a pack of super-wolves?

Nick Lupo is a homicide cop with a difference. He’s a werewolf. He’s worked hard to control his condition, but it isn’t easy to contain the beast inside him. It also means he has some very powerful enemies. Wolfpaw Security Services is a mercenary organization that wants Lupo dead. They want to infiltrate the US military with their own werewolves and they can’t let anyone—especially a fellow-werewolf like Lupo—stand in their way.

Wolfpaw’s genetic experiments have created a “super-wolf” nearly invulnerable to silver, and soon their ranks will be filled with these invincible warriors. Can one wolf—even a fierce beast like Lupo—face the fangs and claws of a pack of these killers and hope to survive?

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Check Out the Book Trailer and Read The Review of ‘No One to Hear You Scream’ @Julia_Madeleine #Thriller

Twenty-seven-year-old Irish immigrant, RORY MADDEN, is building his dream home on a twenty-acre wooded property in upstate New York, just south of Penn Yan, financing his project with drug money. A former assassin with the Ulster Freedom Fighters, a terrorist paramilitary organization, Rory is forced into exile and immigrates to America to start a new life in New York.

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WD Gagliani’s Latest Nick Lupo Horror/Crime/Thriller ‘Wolf’s Edge’ Arriving Soon ~ Watch This

A trailer introduction to the four Nick Lupo horror/thriller novels by W.D. Gagliani - created at http://animoto.com - they are North Woods Noirs by the author of Savage Nights

Wolf’s Edge coming in October 2011 Read More at his website http://www.wdgagliani.com/

Review: Savage Nights, a Suspense Thriller by W D Gagliani @wdgagliani

#Review: Searching for Michael by Ella Grey #eshort @ellagrey26

Clever and compelling suspense filled short story with an enticing cliffhanger ending written by a true thrill mistress
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Searching for Michael (A Difficult Decision)

Rachel Valentine is 16. She has just been shuttled off to a St. Mary’s School for Wayward Souls. The nuns are not only very strict, her room spartan and her possessions secreted away in the Mother Superior’s office under lock and key, she gets only an hour of free time every day. She’s spending her free time watching the news when she sees a man behind the reporter in Trafalgar Square she recognizes as her brother who is supposedly dead.

No one will believe Michael is alive and in London so since you don’t end up in a boarding school for wayward souls by being a good girl Rachel hatches an escape plan. Now she’s spending her days circulating Michael’s photo looking for someone who’s seen him but she finds out there’s something very strange going on, the list of missing person’s is growing and she’s right in the middle of the danger.

Searching for Michael is Ella Grey’s second eshort story published by Echelon Press as part of a project to tempt reluctant young readers. The story is written in short installments and ends in a cliffhanger in the hope of enticing the reader to read the next installment.

Ella Grey lives with her husband, son and dog. Her first eshort published by Echelon Press was released last year. To find out more about Ella Grey, her stories and books visit her at http://ellagrey.wordpress.com/

Review by Lynnette Phillips