Book Reviews: Fiction,Suspense, Mystery, Fantasy an More

  GOTCHA GAS - DEBACLE NEAR ROSWELL Authors: M.A. Banak and Bill Weimer  Publisher:  GoGa Publishing (December 11, 2011) Sold by:  Amazon Digital Services, Inc. Language:  English ASIN:  B006KXPPXI Book Description: In GOTCHA GAS - DEBACLE NEAR ROSWELL, Ramon Sanchez’s search for a long-forgotten town in New Mexico reveals the fifty-year-old legend of a colossal service station called Gotcha Gas. July 7th, 1947, dozens of outraged motorists are stranded and unaware they are within the blast radius of a poorly-planned US Army bomb test. A motorcycle gang, a police manhunt, and “The Pickle,” an Army helicopter in the final leg of its pre-test reconnaissance, join the pandemonium. Can everyone be saved with just one hour before detonation? Ramon learns about a boom town on the verge of bankruptcy, the mayor’s get-rich-quick scheme, and the broken Coke bottle that triggered the episode. He also uncovers the connection between events at the ga...

Shattered: LOGAN Book 1 Author: Valerie Davisson   Print Length:  226 pgs. Publisher:  Hauser Publishing (March 3, 2014) ASIN:  B00IRPWH6K Book Description: Meet Logan McKenna … fiercely loyal, and impossibly inquisitive. In SHATTERED, the first book in the original mystery series and stunning fiction debut with which Valerie Davisson lets us crave for more, Logan McKenna loses her husband, her illusions, the company they built together, her music, and now, probably her job. But that won’t stop her from digging into a murder investigation that keeps Southern California’s tight-knit artist community on its toes and law enforcement cluelessly guessing. At loose ends, and running out of money after buying a fixer upper on the coast, she decides to help out her best friend from high school, Thomas, a Native American artist, and his wife Lisa at their booth at the Otter Arts Festival, in the idyllic coastal town of Jasper, where she and her police-off...