Wayne D. Dundee started out writing private eye fiction, and he still does that, but lately he’s added another layer of narrative to his acumen: the Western. Rio Matanza is his second novel in the Bodie Kendrick Bounty Hunter series, and he offers up action by the bucketful in this tale. The full-length novel opens […]
Archive for July 2012
RIO MATANZA by Wayne D. Dundee
July 31, 2012DEEP DOWN by Lee Child
July 30, 2012Last year before the new Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child came out, fans were offered an e-short story about a young Reacher. I got it and read it, enjoying both the story and the way that the tale filled in some of the gaps we didn’t really know about Reacher. I also liked the […]
SHIFT by Em Bailey
July 26, 2012Em Bailey’s novel Shift has an interesting premise that sucked me into her dark world several times. I liked her character and the fact that Olive has had problems and is trying to get right with her world again, and the fact that she is having trouble fitting into her life no matter what she […]
DARK EYE by William Bernhardt
July 24, 2012Bill Bernhardt’s series about Ben Kincaid, for all their twists and turns, are a walk in the park compared to Dark Eye and the broken heroine readers find in these pages. Susan Pulaski isn’t a hero I could admire, which is unusual for a Bernhardt book, and I never did warm up to her. Watching […]
FOX: SAILOR’S BLOOD by Adam Hardy
July 17, 2012Every so often, I find myself trudging down memory lane. It happens when I see an old book on a shelf in a used book story, or I read through an article on popular writers and where they got their inspiration to write. Almost every time, I pick up that book or I go on […]
BULLET FOR A VIRGIN! by Peter Brandvold
July 16, 2012Peter Brandvold, also known as Frank Leslie, writes a lot of Westerns, and now he’s dipped his pen into the self-publishing biz with a vengeance. Bullet for a Virgin is his first Rio Concho Kid story, and the author has promised it won’t be his last. In fact, on the last page of this novella, […]
THE LONG BLACK TRAIN by Heath Lowrance
July 13, 2012“The Long Black Train” is the second short story featuring Heath Lowrance’s gritty gunslinger who squares off with the supernatural. This story has a little more set up than the last tale, and a few pages pass by before Hawthorne appears on the scene. But once Hawthorne is there, things get weird in a hurry. […]
THAT DAMNED COYOTE HILL by Heath Lowrance
July 12, 2012“That Damned Coyote Hill” is the first of Heath Lowrance’s Hawthorne short stories featuring a bounty hunter (I think, though that’s more hinted at than definite). In this first story, he’s out looking for personal vengeance, though. To me, Hawthorne seems more like Robert E. Howard’s Solomon Kane character, a wandering soldier of fortune who’s […]
CAP KENNEDY: GALAXY OF THE LOST by E. C. Tubb
July 11, 2012Galaxy of the Lost first came out in the 1970s. I bought a copy because the cover reminded me of the Doc Savage books I was still reading, which the cover was supposed to do. But I never got around to reading it. The book is somewhere in a box, packed away for the day […]
