Book Review: Dead Certain, by Adam Mitzner

Guest review by: Becki BayleyIn a police interrogation, when the suspect asks for a lawyer all questions must cease. The police are precluded from trying to talk someone out of invoking his right to counsel. If they do, anything that’s said after the request for counsel is inadmissible...

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Book Review and GIVEAWAY: Spin: A Novel Based on a (Mostly) True Story, by Peter Zheutlin {ends 8/4, three winners!}

Guest review by: Becki BayleyThere are two versions, well many more, really, but two principal ones, of how I reached the eastern shores of China and then Japan from Marseille, and I told both of them, sometimes to different reporters on the same day in the same city, depending...

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Book Review and GIVEAWAY: It Came From the Sky, by Chelsea Sedoti {ends 7/26}

Guest review by: Becki Bayley“Why are you saying everything you do?” Ishmael asked.“We’ve been over this,” I replied absently. “I’m recording everything related to the hoax.”“You must be blowing through your phone’s memory.”I was. The hoax had taken over my life to the point...

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Book Review and GIVEAWAY: The Lockhart Women, by Mary Camarillo {ends 7/20}

Guest review by: Becki Bayley“Why don’t you stop by this afternoon?” Brenda tells Bill when he calls. “I have a business opportunity I’d like to talk to you about. Have you heard of network marketing?” She’s practiced the spiel from the handbook Tim left her and she’s sure she...

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Book Review: The Lily Garden by Barbara Josselsohn

Guest review by: Becki BayleyThey left the building and started down the hill. “So, where were you teaching before?” Caroline asked.”“Florida,” he told her. “A small city school called Pine Beach College. Although I grew up in Minnesota. Where’s home for you two?”“Chicago,”...

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