How about a virtual trip to Tampa? (and – Exclusive Sneak Peek – Jack Frost!) If you saw any of the SuperBowl 55 festivities last weekend, you were treated to a bird’s eye view of Tampa, where I live in the winter. We’ve been snowbirds, spending winters in Tampa Bay, for a long time now. We […]
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And the signed hardcovers go to…
Wrapping up 2020 seems like a very good idea, doesn’t it? As I write this, we’re wrapping last minute gifts for the family and planning our low-key Christmas celebrations. I’m sending thoughts and prayers your way for the holiday season and hoping for a much, much better 2021 for all of us. We’ve waited long […]
The Hidden World of Dogfighting
My readers know that I’m dedicated to writing thrillers that are believable as well as exciting. My plots are always at least theoretically possible. Very often, the things I learn about inform the fiction in my books. This was the case when I was writing Full Metal Jack. I can’t wait to hear what you […]
Tampa’s Food Halls
The Hunt for Justice books are set in Tampa, Florida, where the fictional star of this series, Judge Willa Carson, lives with her husband George and their two labradors. George owns a 5-Star restaurant and they live on the premises. Wouldn’t you love to have gourmet room service meals prepared precisely as you wish every […]
So what is Prepper Cuisine? Find out!
If you’ve read books in my Hunt for Jack Reacher series, you know Reacher is an expert at living off the grid. With an estimated 3 million Preppers living in the US, he’s not the only one. A ‘Prepper’ is someone who prepares for emergencies. The level of preparedness and types of emergencies that Preppers […]
New Research on Fingerprinting
Did you hear about the new technological development in fingerprinting analysis? Fingerprints are extremely helpful for solving crimes, and that’s often the reason I research and write about them — both in my books and here on my blog. For example, in Get Back Jack, FBI Special Agent Kim Otto notices, “Fingerprint residue blackened the […]
22 Authors For Veterans
22 Great Books for a Great Cause at a Great Price! Here in the US, this is the start of the long Memorial Day weekend, the traditional beginning of summer. The holiday’s purpose is to honor the men and women who died while serving in the US Military. It is the day we are reminded of what the […]
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