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14 true 5697002 read 0 true 5049834 currently-reading 0 true 5049833 to-read <![CDATA[New Update::UpdateArray update]]> <![CDATA[new comment from Michael]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72575839 Jen's review of Gallows Lane
by Brian McGilloway

Good Morning Ms. Forbus,

What great Reviews! A Bad Daay For Sorry, Breathing Water and Gallows Lane. Thanks to you, these are now on my MUST READ list.

Have a great week.

Sincerely,

Michael Phelps ]]> <![CDATA[Michael Phelps voted on a review]]> http://www.goodreads.com/

Michael Phelps read and liked Jen's review of Gallows Lane:

"Inspector Benedict "Ben" Devlin has a babysitting assignment in GALLOWS LANE. James Kerr has been released from jail and Devlin's superintendent, Costello, wants Kerr to stay in Northern Ireland. Devlin's job is to convince him to do so. Ho...more Inspector Benedict "Ben" Devlin has a babysitting assignment in GALLOWS LANE. James Kerr has been released from jail and Devlin's superintendent, Costello, wants Kerr to stay in Northern Ireland. Devlin's job is to convince him to do so. However, Kerr has a mission. He needs to see "a man" to get something "off his chest." Then he'll be gone, he assures Devlin. But shortly thereafter people start dying unnaturally. Kerr is the prime suspect until he is crucified on Gallows Lane. Devlin is determined to stop the carnage, especially when his family is in danger.

GALLOWS LANE is a complex police procedural that has equal parts psychological action and physical action. Devlin battles internally with what is right and what is wrong as his wife challenges his loyalty to their family. She believes he selfishly puts their family in harms way for the glory of his job. While Devlin struggles with this internally, externally he's faced with knowledge of a corrupt colleague vying for promotion as well as his own unlawful act performed in an effort to secure justice.

McGilloway's style is magnetic. His sharp, crisp dialogue flows naturally and often accompanied by dry humor. The development of the characters is superb. Devlin is in many ways the classic crime fiction detective and in other ways uniquely McGilloway's creation.

GALLOWS LANE doesn't move like a thriller novel, instead the reader moves along more like the convicts who once walked the road: slowly, analyzing each step of their lives and how those steps brought them to this point. As readers experience Devlin's psychological struggles, they will likely find it difficult not to question what their own decisions would be and then realize they would struggle no less than Devlin. Beware of GALLOWS LANE, McGilloway may very well get inside your head and start moving around those "truths" you've held locked inside.

GALLOWS LANE is the second book in the Inspector Devlin series. I look forward to more from McGilloway and his troubled inspector.
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Jose and Christina,

A fitting Tribute to a Great American, and more important it is from your hearts.

Thank you both for caring and for sharing.

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]]> <![CDATA[new comment from Michael]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/196954-self-published-in-bookstores Michael made a comment in the Published Authors group:

Darcia,

Dave has given you excellent advice.

I checked with Bartnes and Noble, Books-A-Million and Borders, each and every store in Naples, Fort Myers and Miami-Fort Lauderdale. I personally visited each and every store, and was met with the exact same answer. "You must submit your book to Corporate - - and they do not even consider POD, Self-Publishing or Vanity books." Each store I visited was corporately owned. But, I totllay agree with Dave, BANG on DOORS, DON'T GIVE UP, and seek out local media and Independent book stores.

I am definitely going to purchase your books, they must be good, just by the titles.

Mike ]]> <![CDATA[new comment from Michael]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/194680-authors-be-alert Michael made a comment in the Published Authors group:

Good Morning Maryanne,

I will be anxiously awaiting your book.

My good friend, the late David Janssen had just completed three days of filming "Father Damien" when he died unexpectedly, February 13, 1980. He had passed a complete physical just five days before the start of filming this major motion picture. ]]>