Book Review – The Shadow Patrol
Book Review: The Shadow Patrol by Alex Berenson
VJ Books Announces New York Times Bestselling Author Michael Palmer as February 2012 Author of the Month
Writer and physician Michael Palmer is the February 2012 Author of the Month at VJ Books with the release of his new medical and political thriller — Oath of Office.
About Oath of Office
What if a well respected doctor inexplicably goes on a murderous rampage?
When Dr. John Meacham goes on a shooting spree the office, his business partner, staff, and two patients are killed in the bloodbath. Then Meacham turns the gun on himself.
The blame falls on Dr. Lou Welcome. Welcome worked with Meacham years before as a counselor after John’s medical license had been revoked for drug addiction. Lou knew that John was an excellent doctor and deserved to be practicing medicine and fought hard for his license to be restored. After hearing the news of the violent outburst, Lou is in shock like everyone else, but mostly he’s incredulous. And when he begins (more…)
George Pelecanos and Derek Strange Tell “What It Was”
Press Release
Bestselling crime novelist George Pelecanos releases his latest Derek Strange novel, What It Was.
Tualatin, Oregon, January 1, 2012 – Since 2001, Derek Strange–the hard headed private detective–has faced a cadre of clever bad guys as he navigates the streets and culture that is Washington D.C.
About What It Was
In Pelecanos’s newest book, What It Was, it is 1972 and Derek Strange has recently left the D.C. police force and set up shop as a private investigator. His former partner, Frank “Hound Dog” Vaughn is still on the force. Helping a new client recover a ring of some sentimental value, Strange steps into Vaughn’s case, where a local druggie has been murdered.
Soon both Strange and Vaughn are in hot pursuit of a cold-blooded killer known on the street as ‘Red Fury,” so called for his looks and the car his girlfriend drives. Red Fury doesn’t care who he has to kill – or cross – to get what he wants, and as the violence grows and the stakes get higher, strange and Vaughn know that the only way to catch their man is to do it ‘their way.’
George Pelecanos talks about Derek Strange on YouTube. Click here to watch the video.
“I am pleased to see Pelecanos return to the streets that earned him the Gumshoe Award in 2003,” tells John Hutchinson of VJ Books, “Hell to Pay is one of my favourite books, and I appreciate how What It Was tells some of the back story of how Derek Strange got started.” “It’s a great background for the other Strange novels, Right as Rain and Soul Circus,” adds Hutchinson. (more…)
Award Winning Writer James W. Hall is November 2011 Favorite Author at VJ Books
Press Release
VJ Books announces author James. W. Hall as Author of the Month with the release of his latest novel, “Dead Last”. To celebrate this event, VJ Books is discounting many of Hall’s signed and collectible novels.
Tualatin, Oregon, November 7, 2011 – James W. Hall is the award-winning author of twelve novels, including his latest thriller, Dead Last. Dead Last, which Publishers Weekly is calling “compelling”, features the return of loner sleuth Daniel Thorn.
“Hall was one of the first authors to sign for us and we are always excited to receive his newest title,” reflects John Hutchinson of VJ Books. “Dead Last looks to be a classic Thorn mystery, full of edge of the chair suspense and Thorn’s edgy approach to events,” continued Hutchinson.
About the Book
Thorn gets involved with an obituary writer for the Miami Herald, (she’s an old flame) and through her Thorn becomes way too involved with a TV crime show being shot in Miami. TV stars, writers and directors can be very dark and twisted.
With the pacing of a thriller, and the lyrical prose for which Hall is renowned, this story pits Thorn against a killer—or killers—whose motives are as elusive as their identities.
About the Author
James was born (1947) in Kentucky but has lived most of his life in Florida. Originally a poet, he began writing crime fiction in the mid-1980s, publishing his first novel, Under Cover of Daylight, in 1986. Under Cover of Daylight is a murder mystery–starring a Key West fisherman named Thor–and was a well-received beginning to a popular series.
Besides the Thorn books, Hall has written stories and novels of life in South Florida, as well Hot Damn!, a collection of essays.
Hall has earned the Shamus Award for the Thorn novel, Black Water Sound and an Edgar Award (Best Short Story Category) for The Catch. Hall’s novels have been Book-of-the-Month and Literary Guild selections.
James W. Hall was a Fulbright professor of literature in Spain and is a professor of literature and writing at Florida International University. He and his wife Evelyn and their three dogs, Carrie, Stella and Maggie, divide their time between South Florida and the mountains of western North Carolina.
This is a great opportunity to own a signed, first edition copy of Dead Last, available now at VJ Books. In addition to Dead Last, VJ Books offers other fast-paced Hall novels such as Body Language, Bones of Coral, Gone Wild, Mean High Tide, and many more. Visit James Hall’s homepage on the VJ Books website.
Just Arrived – Signed 1st UK Editions of John Connolly’s “Burning Soul” and Lee Child’s “Affair”
Signed 1st UK editions of Lee Child’s The Affair and John Connolly’s The Burning Soul are now shipping!
Signed 1st Editions of “The Race” and “The Measure of Magic” Now Shipping!
We just received signed 1st editions of The Race by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott and The Measure of Magic by Terry Brooks.
Exciting New British Authors!
We have had a great season of debut books coming from British authors. S. J. Watson’s BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP arrived first, a thriller bringing a unique voice, and vivid characterization, with suspense that will keep you reading until the wee hours of the morning. Next came PRINCE OF THORNS, a stunning fantasy debut, the first volume in a powerful new epic fantasy trilogy, original, absorbing and challenging. This was followed by SPYCATCHER by Matthew Dunn, an espionage thriller told by a real, true-life, former British spy. His perspective has created superspy Will Cochrane, MI6s top asset.
Now we bring you SANCTUS by Simon Toyne, another newcomer from across the pond. “One man’s sacrifice shocks the world . . . One woman’s courage threatens a conspiracy as old as mankind . . . and some will do anything – anything – to keep their secrets in the dark.” Brad Meltzer finds Sanctus “Frightening, ruthless, and relentlessly entertaining.” Sanctus is Simon Toyne’s first novel in the greatly anticipated Sanctus Trilogy, an explosive apocalyptic thriller from a major new British talent that will set the world alight. Released in 19 languages in over 30 countries, Sanctus will be one of the biggest books of the year.
Publishers Weekly Reviews Inmate 1577 by Alan Jacobson
In Jacobson’s complex fourth novel featuring FBI profiler Karen Vail (after Velocity), San Francisco Police Inspector Lance Burden turns to the D.C.-based Vail for help in solving the murder of 82-year-old Maureen Anderson, who was tortured and brutalized at her house in the city’s Marina district. Anderson’s husband, William, is later found dead, tied to the base of a column in the Palace of Fine Arts. Other similar murders rapidly follow. Insp. Robert Friedberg, reporter Clay Allman, and Roxxann Dixon, “an investigator with the Napa County District Attorney’s office,” lend assistance as Vail becomes increasingly frustrated by the rising body count and the killer’s taunts. Alternating chapters detail the bad luck tale of prison inmate Walton MacNally, from the murder of his wife in 1955 to his career as a thief and armed robber. That the two cases merge will come as no surprise, but Jacobson manages to tantalize with each segment and pull off a stunning surprise ending. (July)
– Publishers Weekly
