Interview with Candace Irving (Deception Point series)

Elise and Candace Irving discuss the Hidden Valor series here: https://www.noapologybookreviews.com/interview-with-candace-irving-hidden-valor-military-veteran-k-9-series Below they discuss Irving’s Deception Point series. You can also find out more at candaceirving.com. Article and Interview by Elise Cooper There are similarities between both series in that each has great characters, very unlikeable antagonists, an intense plot, some romance, and a riveting story that readers will not want to put down. The author allows readers to connect emotionally with the characters. The differences are that the Hidden …

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Interview with Rick Campbell (The Bin Laden Plot)

Article and Interview by Elise Cooper The Bin Laden Plot by Rick Campbell is a great military espionage story. The book has the CIA Director, Christine O’ Connor, along with a former SEAL, Jake Harrison, now a CIA contractor, working together to find out if there is a cover up that includes dangerous acts of corruption, even treason. This plot starts with the destruction of a destroyer in the Persian Gulf. The explanation from the Secretary of Navy is that …

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Interview with Lisa Harris (Fallout series)

Article and Interview by Elise Cooper The Fallout series by Lisa Harris currently has five books out, The Last Day, Survival, Hunted, Frequency, Deception, and Shattered, which will be out the end of this month. The plot has the electric grid sabotaged, with technology suddenly no longer available.  No one in the small, west Texas town of Shadow Ridge knows what took down the power grid, or when it’s going to be back up, but everyone knows exactly where they …

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Interview with Rosemary Simpson (Death, Diamonds, and Deception)

Article and Interview by Elise Cooper Death, Diamonds, and Deception by Rosemary Simpson delves into the Gilded Age in New York during 1889. This historical mystery has a female detective, Prudence MacKenzie and her partner, ex-Pinkerton detective, Geoffrey Hunter, investigating the stolen jewels from a necklace once owned by Marie Antoinette. The story begins after the arrival of Prudence’s aunt, Lady Gillian Rotherton from London. She is intent on chaperoning her niece Prudence through a New York social season to …

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Interview with Charles Todd (A Cruel Deception)

Article and Interview by Elise Cooper A Cruel Deception by Charles Todd brings back Bess Crawford in a riveting mystery. As always tidbits of the historical context of the war allows readers to feel as if they were transported in time to another place and era. As Bess is pondering her future at wars end, she is asked by her Matron to travel to France to find out what has happened to her son Lawrence Minton. He is a WWI …

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