Archive for March, 2008

Book Review: “Pilate: A Brutal Bible Tale” by Steven Rage

By Mary Menzel: This brilliant alteration of biblical accounts into a modernized tale of drugs, death and deception is not for the easily offended or faint of heart. With graphic scenes of violence, sex and torture Steven Rage has given us a view of Christ’s final days had he lived in our modern world. His [...]

Book Review: “The Devil’s Footprints” by Amanda Stevens

By Mary Menzel: What if your sister was murdered? What if you felt you were to blame? Amanda Stevens has once again brought all the intricacies and prejudges of a small town to life; where people would rather believe in the supernatural than to believe one of their own is capable of murder. The taut [...]

Book Review: “The Cage” by Jason Brannon

By Mary Menzel: Jason Brannon has taken bold new steps on the imagination highway. All of us have probably seen programs that talk about or show indecipherable pictures of creatures only known in a hypothetical or superstitious context. Take the Chupacabra for example. Now, imagine yourself trapped with him and many other “monsters” we thought [...]

Book Review: “The Doll Maker” by Amanda Stevens

By Mary Menzel: This book has all the ingredients of a suspenseful story – family secrets, marriages, divorces, adultery, cops – good and corrupt and mysterious deaths. So many authors today depend solely on blood, gore and sex to sell their books without knowing how to build the suspense. This novel is pure suspense in [...]

Book Review: “Paying The Piper” by Simon Wood

By Mary Menzel: Can anyone truly imagine the horror of having their child kidnapped? Especially knowing that it is their fault? This novel starts at a break neck pace and constantly accelerates until the finish line. Wood’s multi-faceted characters are engaging and the plot lines twist and turn and loop around again until the reader [...]

Book Review: “Paranoia” by J.E. Braun

By Mary Menzel: This novel deals with the one lesson that should be learned about the events that occurred on September 11, 2001…. If we give into fear then we have allowed the terrorist to win. No one can truly imagine living through such an event but J.E. Braun has skillfully fashioned one man’s [...]