What is Flight 12? FLIGHT 12 is the revolutionary followup by The Twelve to the New York Times and USA Today bestselling DEADLY DOZEN. The groundbreaking FLIGHT 12 series will feature a new release from each member of The Twelve, plus very special guests, with a conclusion so thrilling it could only come from the […]
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Saturday Special: Procrastination Is Genetic?
Did you see the study about procrastination that came out this week? The study was published in Psychological Science. It found that procrastination is a trait that can be inherited. That makes me feel a lot better! Of course, I know DNA is destiny. That’s why I have my mother’s eyes and my my dad’s hair. […]
Saturday Special: Who Are The Twelve? (And Why Should You Care?)
I hope everyone is keeping safe and dry despite this crazy weather that’s hitting many parts of the world. Here’s a quick look to catch you up on what you may have missed at Licensed To Thrill in the past week. 1. We had some fun trying to select Valentine’s-themed quotes from my books. As I […]
Saturday Special: Harry Potter World Expanding
From the court room to the theme parks, we have a lot to catch up on in this “Saturday Special.” Let’s get right to it. 1. Amanda Knox. You may recall I blogged about her retrial in December. Thursday an Italian appellate court officially decided to uphold her original guilty verdict. (You’ll recall, that’s the […]
How Powerful is Imagination?
Reading is one of the most wonderful things I ever learned to do. I’m guessing it’s one of your pleasures, too. What do you want to get from a good book? Many readers tell me they want to escape into another world and completely forget about their own. Writers who can give us the words […]
Saturday Special: Amanda Knox and Jack Reacher and Me
It’s been a fun week for me, a suspenseful week for Amanda Knox, a GREAT week for Don’t Know Jack, and a challenging week for the Tampa Police Department. Here’s a few highlights from my world this week. 1. I was featured in a column by Tampa Tribune military reporter Howard Altman. He was interested […]
Secret Justice and Gasparilla Security
Nearly half a million people crowded into one edge of one city all at the same time? It sounds like a security nightmare, doesn’t it? But that’s what happens each year at Tampa’s Gasparilla parade — an invasion of the pirates. The invasion kicks off my book Secret Justice. You can read more about my take […]
Killers Among Us: Valessa Robinson
Last month, a woman who was just 15 years old when she helped murder her own mother was released from Florida prison. Valessa Robinson and two friends murdered her mom in 1998 in the Tampa area. Robinson, now 30, was released in December after serving 15 years. According to Florida state records, Robinson, her boyfriend, […]
MacDill: More Than An Air Force Base
If you follow Bayshore Boulevard in Tampa south, all the way along the water’s edge, you will pass the fictional entrance to Judge Willa Carson’s Plant Key home, and eventually run into the very real entrance to MacDill Air Force Base, which occupies the bottom section of the peninsula that makes up South Tampa. And […]
The Nancy Kerrigan Case, 20 Years Later
Can you believe it was 20 years ago today that Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan was attacked? Such a bizarre sequence of events. Almost like something out of one of my suspense novels. With the Winter Olympics just one month away, I’ve been thinking more about this case. The events happened in Detroit, where I was […]
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