by vjbooks | Jan 31, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(newreleasewire.com, Jan. 16, Scott Lorenz) A rich tradition has existed for hundreds of years for fiction writers to use pen names. The most famous pen name, of course, was Samuel Clemens writing under the name Mark Twain. A lesser known use is Romance writer Nora...
by vjbooks | Jan 30, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
Nora Roberts was born in Silver Spring Maryland, the youngest of five children. After a school career that included some time in Catholic school and the disciplines of nuns, she married young and settled in Keedysville, Maryland. She worked briefly as a legal...
by vjbooks | Jan 29, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
Amarylis Coltraine had recently transferred to the New York City police force from Atlanta-but she’s been a cop long enough to know how to defend herself against an assailant. When she’s taken down just steps away from her apartment, disarmed, and killed...
by vjbooks | Dec 9, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Sept. 29) Holy communion spells death for Fr. Miguel Flores, a popular Catholic priest in New York City’s Spanish Harlem, after he swallows wine laced with cyanide during a funeral in bestseller Robb’s unusually introspective...
by vjbooks | Nov 16, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Aug. 25) “Strangers in Death is the 26th thriller in J.D. Robb’s bestselling In Death series; Berkley reports 875,000 copies in print after two printings. Publisher’s Weekly review noted, “Robb’s strong,...
