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Today is National Defy Superstition Day (No Joke!)

Can you believe we’ve got a National Defy Superstition Day? (Who knew?) Are you superstitious? Kim Otto isn’t, but in Get Back Jack, she’s amused when Frances Neagley says, “Fist bump. It’s what the special investigators always did before and after a mission.” “Who knew you were so superstitious,” Kim said. Defying superstitions is the […]

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Aaron Patterson Flight 12

Aaron Patterson Boards Flight 12

The latest book in The Twelve‘s  Flight 12 series is out today! Kirk Weston has a problem–he can’t keep his big mouth shut and this time it could cost him his life. Trapped and beyond the help of his old partner in crime Mark Appleton, he has only one chance to escape… Sometimes life gives you […]

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Quick Thrills Giveaway

Sunday Special: Lee Child Mania

Lee Child’s new novel, Personal, was released this week, and boy, what a media whirlwind it’s been. The guy’s been doing book signings at Barnes and Noble and other bookstores, attending question and answer sessions, and he appeared on CBS This Morning. Next week he’s throwing out the first pitch at a New York Yankees […]

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Summertime and the Snowbird Living is Easy

Have I always been a little on the feisty side? Sure. It’s the way I’m made, I guess. You see evidence of that in everything I write, don’t you? Think about my characters Willa Carson, Jess Kimball, Jenny Lane, Kim Otto and Carlos Gaspar and more. All are way more than a little on the […]

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How To Avoid Virtual Kidnapping

Forewarned is Forearmed 16th Century Proverb Did you know that virtual kidnapping is as pervasive as telemarketing? (It’s crazy the things you learn while researching your next thriller novel. Virtual kidnapping is a topic I explored during research for my book, Flight 12: A Jess Kimball Thriller.) Here’s how virtual kidnapping works. Typically, the scam artist calls […]

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Dessert for Lunch

Saturday Special: Let’s Indulge Ourselves!

Jess Kimball of Fatal Distraction and Flight 12 fame is inspired by Dominick Dunne, the famous movie producer-turned-journalist/victim’s rights advocate. If you could have lunch with one person who has inspired you either professionally or personally, who would it be? Maybe on the menu would be something like this, if we’re lucky. Indulgent, I know. […]

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Jess Kimball Books

Lunch with Dominick Dunne

If he were still alive today, Jess Kimball would have lunch with Dominick Dunne, a man who inspired her. In short, although they never met, Jess views Dominick Dunne as a mentor. Jess Kimball, of Fatal Distraction, Fatal Enemy, and Flight 12: A Jess Kimball Thriller is alone in the world. Her son, Peter, was kidnapped as an infant when […]

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Cheryl Bradshaw Flight 12

Flight 12: New Release From Cheryl Bradshaw!

Good news, reader friends! The latest FLIGHT 12 book is out TODAY! Cheryl Bradshaw’s Flight 12: A Sloane Monroe Thriller is the newest release in this ongoing project. Sometimes even the most innocent vacations turn deadly… A fancy hotel. A weekend getaway. For Sloane Monroe, rest has finally arrived, until the lights go out and her nightmare begins. […]

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Entrain

The Best Travel Apps: Not A Drill

Delta recently named 85 of the top travel improvements of the past 200 years. Among the most notable improvements listed? Travel Guide Apps. Jack Reacher doesn’t need Travel Apps because he doesn’t have a smart phone. But I do. And so do Otto & Gaspar on the Hunt for Reacher. After all, this is not […]

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Night Vision

Who Says We Only Have 5 Senses?

You know what the traditional five senses are: sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch. So what sense is FBI Special Agent Carlos Gaspar using when, in Jack in the Green, we learn: “It was his sixth sense that rankled.” –Jack in the Green At the time, Gaspar is arriving at Tampa’s MacDill Air Force Base […]

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