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  Title: Ocean City Lowdown Author: Kim Kash Series: Jamie August, book 1 About the Author (Goodreads): Kim Kash is the author of Ocean City Lowdown: A Jamie August Novel and the bestselling Ocean City: A Guide to Maryland’s Seaside Resort. She is a founder of the Greenbelt Farmers Market near Washington, D.C. Topics she covers as a freelance writer for range from federal government policy to yoga, food and travel. A few years ago, Kim and her husband sold everything and moved to the Middle East. She has since traveled to more than a dozen countries and has taken up sailing, diving, and rock climbing. Book Summary (Goodreads): Ocean City Lowdown introduces Eastern Shore Maryland reporter Jamie August, who has a talent for unearthing more than her editor wants and a weakness for Ravens jerseys and sparkly underwear. She is assigned to cover the grand opening of a big new housing development in Ocean City, Maryland. But instead of writing about wrap-around porches and rattan furnishi...

How To Write Killer Fiction by Carolynn Wheat is an excellent introduction to writing mystery and suspense novels. I was only vaguely aware that mystery and suspense could be two distinctive types of works though closely related. In a mystery, whatever kind, there is a puzzle for the hero to solve. In a suspense, it is a "nightmare" for the hero to survive and come out a changed person. There have been a few books that merged both types, but for the most part they stay separate. Wheat is very readable, clear and entertaining as she talks you through what makes a mystery a mystery and suspense a suspense. The only thing I was lost on was arcs. But this was not a book about the technical parts of writing like arcs and characterizations and themes. This book teaches the parts of the journey that a mystery/suspense hero makes and how to keep your readers interested and guessing how the hero will solve the crime and/or make it to the end. I highly recommend this to any ficti...

This book is the first in the Darby Stansfield Thiller series. Darby is a sales persons for a communications company and is job it to find people/companies to use their equipment. Darby is in a low level position with the company but " is only 1 sale away" from the high rollers level in the company. To advance in the company-Darby decided to go after a small and unsuccessful branch of the Chinese Mob. Darby becomes the telecommunication representative to the Mob. This leaves Darby into a bunch of adventures including a serial murderer to find, trips to China, and the new love of his life---all while a pesky manager at the office is trying to figure out how Darby has suddenly become a heavy hitter. This is a wonderful book that keeps you guessing all the way to the end. Ty Hutchinson has become an author that I'm going to look for with his Darby Stansfield books. His next book is Stroganov and I'm off to read it. Happy reading!