by vjbooks | Sep 20, 2015 | We're Talking Books!
Invention or Alter Ego? Written by John Hutchinson, VJ Books, Tualatin, OR I grew up in a home that didn’t read much. Oh my mom read trashy dime store romances and my dad did his best to get through the daily paper, but for the most part you couldn’t call us a...
by vjbooks | Oct 15, 2010 | We're Talking Books!
VJ Books has received: Stephen J. Cannell – The Prostitute’s Ball, Jonathan Franzen – Freedom, F. Paul Wilson – Fatal Error, John Sandford – Bad Blood, Charles Kipps – Crystal Death, Jeffrey Archer – And Thereby Hangs A...
by vjbooks | Sep 1, 2010 | Collecting, We're Talking Books!
Tualatin, Oregon – September 1, 2010 – VJ Books (http://www.vjbooks.com) honors bestselling thriller writer John Sandford as September 2010 Favorite Author. John Sandford was born John Camp on February 23, 1944, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He attended the...
by vjbooks | Aug 14, 2010 | Books to Movies, Collecting, We're Talking Books!
One late fall Sunday in southern Minnesota, a farmer brings a load of soybeans to a local grain elevator- and a young man hits him on the head with a steel bar, drops him into the grain bin, waits until he’s sure he’s dead, and then calls the sheriff to...
by vjbooks | Jun 2, 2010 | Books to Movies, Collecting, We're Talking Books!
In Storm Prey, there’s a storm brewing. Very early, 4:45, on a bitterly cold Minnesota morning, three big men burst through the door of a hospital pharmacy, duct-tape the hands, feet, mouth, and eyes of two pharmacy workers, and clean the place out. But then...
by vjbooks | Jun 16, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
A May 10 front page feature in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune’s Arts section noted John Sandford’s varied tastes and interests: “His…passions range from art and photography to golf and hunting. He funds a $150,000-a-year archaeological dig in...
by vjbooks | May 29, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
“Something wrong here, a cold whisper of evil. The house was a modernist relic, glass and stone and redwood, sixty years old and gone creaky; not all haunted house were Victorian. Sometimes at night… she’d feel a sudden coolness, as though...
by vjbooks | Apr 8, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Mar 30) The 2008 Republican convention serves as the backdrop for bestseller Sandford’s amped-up, ultra-violent 19th thriller to feature Lucas Davenport of the Minneapolis Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (after Phantom Prey). An...
by vjbooks | Oct 20, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
John Sandford’s Dark of the Moon made Publisher’s Weekly #2 on the Paperback Bestsellers / Mass Market list (Oct. 20). Their review: “Unlike the harder-edged Prey series, Moon is more of an entertainment, allowing Flowers to supplement his determed...