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Bobby Underwood
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The Wild Country (The Wild Country, #1)
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2012
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The Trail to Santa Rosa (The Wild Country, #2)
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2013
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Whisper Valley (The Wild Country, #3)
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The Turquoise Shroud (Seth Halliday #1)
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2013
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Winsome Creek: A Bar~S Western
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Grover's Creek
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Saturday's Children
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I Died Twice
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The Strangler's Tune
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Surfer Girl
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Queen of the Police Procedural
Barbara Elizabeth Linington — aka Dell Shannon/Lesley Egan/Anne Blaisdell/Egan O’Neill — is to my mind the finest writer among all those who helped form the genre of the police procedural. Ed McBain's 87th Precinct novels filled a publishing vacuum when Erle Stanley Gardner aged and his Perry Mason output slowed. McBain became known as the King of police procedurals while Linington became known as
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added a status update: “When someone dies without ever having experienced the joy of it, never really had someone love them in their heart, it leaves…well an ache, an echo if you will. It's a void of regret and sadness that doesn't die with them...They would never be truly happy in heaven. They would be waiting forever for someone who would never come, because no one would die who ever adored them.” — Chance at Heaven
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| As always, volume nine of Wash It All Away is as sweet and charming as its protagonist, the adorable Wakana Kinme. It’s tranquil vibes wash over you so soothingly it’s only when you finish that you realize how Wakana and this gentle slice-of-life in ...more | |
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| “There were no more lessons. There was nothing in the world but cold and dark and work and coarse brown bread and wind blowing. The storm was aways there, outside the walls, waiting sometimes, then pouncing, shaking the house, roaring, and snarling, ...more | |
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| If you’re a big enough fan of Formula One to know that the great Stirling Moss never won an F1 Championship, you’ll love this book. If you know who said, “Britney’s in the wall,” and about whom the comment was made, you’ll probably love this as much ...more | |
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| Everything about this wonderful Magna series from Mitsuru Hattori is very special. It is tranquil refreshing balm for the soul and spirit. The harsh modern world filled with people who have stones for hearts disappear after a few pages reading the on ...more | |
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| It’s nearly impossible to calculate the damage done by members of the Governing Body and their various surrogates — District and Circuit Overseers, and at ground level, self important “Elders” who carry out their directives, under the guise of their ...more | |
“For death is a spider's web, and once caught within its silky strands, our only hope of escape is to kill the spider.”
― The Sensual Sea
― The Sensual Sea
“A delicate scent hung in the air as we strolled down the long boulevard toward the Opera House holding hands. Paris had come to life in a very special way, the lights of the Eiffel Tower a gentle reminder that nothing mattered once that starry blanket covered the great city, except love. Love was the reason Paris existed. For those lonely in their soul, their heart a barren wasteland starving for nourishment, she offered hope. For those like Caroline and I, lucky enough to have found each other and begin the healing process to repair our brokenness, Paris was a bastion to love's transforming power. A year ago I could not have pictured myself holding hands with someone as nice as Caroline, as lovely and unpretentious. She was pretty, but her soul made her beautiful. I loved everything about her, including her damage.”
― The Long Gray Goodbye
― The Long Gray Goodbye
“She had aged with style and beauty. In soft romantic lighting, I could still see the magnificent girl from Mexico who had saved me with her love. When the lighting was less sentimental and somewhat more revealing, she was perhaps even more magnificent. The years had added a velvety richness to her physical beauty, a resonance to her inner loveliness that made her even more spectacular. She was a woman in every sense of the word, yet so much of the young girl remained in those dark and lovely eyes it made you feel young again too.”
― Just Beyond Love
― Just Beyond Love
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“How do I begin to tell you about Dana and all that she meant to my life? A writer can describe spring in technical terms; the scent of cherry blossoms awakening from their long winter's sleep; the first whiff of honeysuckle in the air; and the bright cool promise of the sun before it turns harsh in summer. Through some gift from God, perhaps he is able to imbue it so vividly for the reader that they can envision spring in all its loveliness. But can he ever truly capture on paper that feeling of spring in his heart? How could he find words to describe the rush of joy his heart feels at discovering life can be beautiful? Could the poetry of his prose ever paint a feeling, or recount his soul's wistfulness that when this moment passes, life will never be as beautiful again? All I can say is that is how I felt the first time I saw her.”
― Requiem
― Requiem
“Though Shafter Girl is a novelette, or short novella, I felt its raw beauty and tenderness deserved a slim paperback of its own. It is for those who have known and perhaps loved a Darcy. It is one of my Shafter stories, the small town in Kern County where I grew up. Shafter is in farm country and Shafter Girl retains Shafter’s rural feel and ambiance, and the heart’s leanings of those who grew up there. Shafter Girl is set in a time before cell phones and social media, before the hardening of the heart and capacity for love had been so severely diminished. It was a time when we could love deeply and wear our hearts on our skin, as I believe poet Sylvia Plath once suggested. Where there is poverty and hardship, as there was for some in Shafter, including myself, all that doesn’t really matter in life is stripped away, leaving only love, someone with whom to pour our souls into and whose happiness we put before our own, as is done here. Some will say Shafter Girl is too sentimental and therefore unrealistic, but those who say such things are either hardened of heart, or have never truly loved someone as Billy does Darcy. Like in one of my other Shafter stories, Not Dark Yet, Shafter Girl is about loving a girl completely, which in our time seems to be cause for ridicule. But as in my forward to Not Dark Yet, there are ghosts that come calling on rainy windy nights to remind us that once upon a time, love could be given, and returned tenderly and deeply. Even when the circumstances, whatever they were, were not ideal.”
― Shafter Girl: A Love Story
― Shafter Girl: A Love Story
“The city itself was dead. Some buildings had chunks missing. Bricks and concrete were scattered along sidewalks, debris mingling with bodies. Once this had been a thriving metropolis with a heartbeat all its own. Now it was a corpse, with no morgue big enough to house it. Nothing can ever prepare you for the eeriness of a great city emptied of humanity. In that small room in each of our souls where loneliness makes its home, our fear that we will end up alone and unloved is amplified a million times.”
― Saturday's Children
― Saturday's Children
“Cesca sipped from her coffee cup as she peered through the windshield into the darkness. Rain was falling hard on a San Francisco she didn’t recognize from her own universe, or from her time in the other Matt’s universe. The real darkness here had nothing to do with night. This San Francisco mirrored the moral corruption and decay of the society which inhabited it. She and Ariel had been here two days, scouring streets filled with perversion and hopelessness; alleyways inhabited by the homeless and mentally ill; sex shops catering to every perversion imaginable and unimaginable; sidewalks teeming with drug addicts and male prostitutes — some dressed as women; street corners inhabited by once lovely young women prematurely aging from selling their bodies to all takers — male and female; children of both sexes, from as young as seven and eight, dressed by pimps to attract pedophiles who cruised this part of the city nightly. Many of the children would be sold on the spot, never to be seen again. Sun-faded and now graffitied wall mosaics of galvanizing yet transient political cult personalities, erected by their blinded followers centuries ago, marked this alternate world’s gradual slide into an ethical, and finally moral abyss, from which it had never crawled out.
"God, I can’t believe this is San Francisco,” whispered Ariel from the seat next to Cesca. “I feel like I need to run a bar of soap over my soul.”
― The Dreamless Sea
"God, I can’t believe this is San Francisco,” whispered Ariel from the seat next to Cesca. “I feel like I need to run a bar of soap over my soul.”
― The Dreamless Sea
“Randy looked a mess that night, but she was a beautiful mess. The sweat and the dirt and even the smell of rotted potatoes from the sheds couldn’t mask how wonderful she was. It was much more than just her looks. She was pretty, yes, even in that condition, but it was something intangible, something inside that shone through and made her beautiful and special. Even her smile was kind. I had a visceral reaction to it, and to her. Part of my reaction was wonderful, joyous even. It was as if I’d finally discovered what wonder there was in being alive. But the other part was like a hard kick in the gut. I realized clearly and with despair that every woman and girl I’d ever been with paled by comparison to this wonderful young woman. I didn’t even know Randy’s name then, and wouldn’t for a very long time. But in that instant I knew as surely as the heavens hung above the earth that I’d take days, months, even years off my life just to be hers for a single moment. There could be nothing more wonderful one day when I was part of the sky to know that Randy cared in her tender heart that I’d come this way for a time.” — (Highway 99)”
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Paula wrote: "Hi Bobby! Thanks so much for the friend request! :)"No problem! I'm not around here much any longer, but I'll still check in from time to time. Thanks for accepting, and sorry I didn't see this when it was posted. :-)
Hi Bobby! Thanks so much for the friend request! :)
Luís wrote: "Thanks Bob for accepting. I hope getting more attention to the thriller-crime specific genre! All the best, Luís."No problem! Always great to connect with others who love books, enjoy reading. :-)
Carol wrote: "Your comment in your last book states "a simpler time." That's very profound. I guess I have similar beliefs, and I miss them very much. To use that concept in your writing really touched me, and I..."Thanks.
Your comment in your last book states "a simpler time." That's very profound. I guess I have similar beliefs, and I miss them very much. To use that concept in your writing really touched me, and I hope that perhaps a time will come when our work and family, religion, whatever is stressing us will calm down. Best to you and your wife.
Carol wrote: "How cool that you are able to read some of James' books. I'm still seeing if I can locate a copy. Enjoy"I'll see how it goes, since I always give an honest opinion, and never let my acquaintance or friendship, or the opinions of others about a book influence me. I do, however, try to keep in mind the audience a particular book is aimed at, which isn't always me, and give some latitude as to how it will strike that audience. Reviews on this one put me off for a while, because it's an extension of that Goodreads anti-author vibe. If a guy or gal wants to stick something on their personal profile, fine, their business, but Goodreads has it's own guidelines for authors, and I don't personally feel that within a review of a book, other authors need to be told how to "behave" by another reviewer, especially since they most likely do not work for Goodreads. I've been reviewing for over thirty years on Amazon and have never seen anything resembling that. It's put me off reviewing this author's book for some time, which probably isn't fair to the writer, who had nothing to do with reviewers' comments. But nonetheless...
How cool that you are able to read some of James' books. I'm still seeing if I can locate a copy. Enjoy
Joe wrote: "Hi Bobby,I was going to add this to your review of "Bridge of Sighs and Dreams" but wasn't sure if it was the place to get it off my chest. So bear with me as I place it here.
Another great review..."
Yes, there were bad leaders supported for one reason or another, but the perspective of the book, as was Hans Fallada's Little Man, What Now? was more simple and intimate, just about everyday people trying to survive war in general, disconnected from what nations and governments are doing, but suffering for their decisions. Their foolishness in supporting and putting into power the governments which brought on the war, of course, is not really dealt with, which is a different book. I did feel a bit of that simplistic vibe that America and the Allied forces were wrong for pounding Italy in order to liberate Europe, and the world, because people were hurt. But many more would have been hurt had they not, however we might hate the casualties and the cost. The alternative is in fact, unthinkable. Before the war was 2/3 over, America was providing 70% of the food for Britain (it's in Vera Lynn's book, among others), and once it was over, it was America which shouldered the bulk of the price for rebuilding all of Europe, with surviving sons and daughters, fathers and mothers in the US paying for the Marshall Plan. Most people on the ground, however, are far removed from actual war, and why it's happening. Not all of them were fans of Mussolini, there just wasn't much they could do about it, and then the war came.
Sandra wrote: "Hi Bobby!I hope you have a Wonderful 2018!
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You too, and thanks so much! Sorry I didn't reply earlier, but never saw this!!! :-)
Hi Bobby,I was going to add this to your review of "Bridge of Sighs and Dreams" but wasn't sure if it was the place to get it off my chest. So bear with me as I place it here.
Another great review Bobby. War is hell, and Mussolini brought it to Italy, but the Italians didn't mind him when he made the trains run on time, or made great concessions to the Church, or bombed the Ethiopians with mustard gas. I'm sorry Bobby, for I didn't mean to preach. I do want to read this book because I like WWII history, and I do respect great works by talented authors. I just figure the Italians got what they deserved for what they did to Ethiopia and siding with Hitler.
Sandra wrote: "Hi Bobby,Thanks for the friend-invite! :)"
Thanks for accepting! Always great to find others who love books. :-)
Stacey wrote: "Hi Bobby! I'm looking forward to reading your books. I think I'll start with The Turquoise Shroud. Thank you for the friendship!"Hi Stacy! Thanks for accepting! Looking forward to checking out All your reviews. Always nice to connect with other book lovers. :-)
Hi Bobby! I'm looking forward to reading your books. I think I'll start with The Turquoise Shroud. Thank you for the friendship!
Candace wrote: "Bobby,Thanks for the friend invitation. Best luck with your writing.
Happy Reading,
Candace"
Thanks for accepting. Always nice to connect with people who love books, and love to read. :-)
Bobby,Thanks for the friend invitation. Best luck with your writing.
Happy Reading,
Candace
Stacy wrote: "Thanks for the friend invite!"Thanks for accepting! Always great to connect with people who love books and reading. :-)
Bobby wrote: "Majenta wrote: "Hello, Bobby! Thank you for contacting me. Congratulations on your books! Happy Monday, have a great week. Happy reading, writing, and everything else. Blessings!Best wishes from ..."
Thanks! Sorry, but I only just now saw this! It didn't pop up in red under my notifications deal for some reason. Best wishes and nice to be in touch! - Bobby
Majenta wrote: "Hello, Bobby! Thank you for contacting me. Congratulations on your books! Happy Monday, have a great week. Happy reading, writing, and everything else. Blessings!Best wishes from Majenta"
Thanks! Nice to be in touch! Best wishes. :-)
Hello, Bobby! Thank you for contacting me. Congratulations on your books! Happy Monday, have a great week. Happy reading, writing, and everything else. Blessings!Best wishes from Majenta
Jane wrote: "Bobby I cannot find the reviews I left re Beyond Heaven's Reach, The Unlocked Window, and Lover's Tide. No idea where they went. Anyway, I picked out those stories I really loved, though I enjoyed ..."Thanks so much! I saw a rating for The Unlocked Window collection, the homage to the great pulp writers of mystery and suspense, but that's all. Maybe there was a glitch? I guess if they don't show up, and you haven't saved them to documents or something, you can just click on whatever star you gave them and rate them. Even just a rating is much appreciated. :-)
Linda wrote: "Thank you so much for your lovely review, Bobby. :)"No problem! It was great fun to read! Also posted it on Amazon US, UK, AU and Canada. Hope it does well, charming little story. :-)
Thank you so much for your lovely review, Bobby. :)
Bobby I cannot find the reviews I left re Beyond Heaven's Reach, The Unlocked Window, and Lover's Tide. No idea where they went. Anyway, I picked out those stories I really loved, though I enjoyed every one of them. I love your easy writing style and observations of people and time and place. Such a captivating selection of stories which grabbed me and took me with them to the last words. Thanks so much for sharing them with me and if you find my reviews let me know. I am mystified. Happy 2017 and much continued success. Jane x
Jane wrote: "Bobby thanks so much for watching the YouTube of my Flash Fiction piece, Changing the Guard; hope you enjoyed it. Thanks also for reading my recent blog post. Did it bring back memories for you and..."Jane, - Enjoyed the fiction and the blog. My mom in America is most definitely not with the technology. She would simply be lost with a computer, and even has trouble sometimes with a cell phone she has just so I can cal and stay in touch. She is more the Murder She Wrote type, although in her 80s now. I send her the books because she likes to read them. I think in some ways simpler was better, though. Hard to imagine being without the computer, but I'd simply write on a typewriter like I used to. I'm sort of a dinosaur myself, don't own a cell, and don't want to. Technology, rather than widening our sphere, I believe, has created disengagement because people no longer actually speak and cultivate relationships. In many ways, technology, in my opinion, has created a disconnect of humanity. Einstein once wrote that he feared the day when technology grew faster than society, which would, in his words, create a generation of idiots. LOL If you browse through television channels, or simply watch people in mass staring down at their cell phones as they walk, or eat at a restaurant, or do anything, I have to wonder if Einstein's fears have already come to pass. Is it the culturally shallow world which made it conducive to technology taking precedence over human interaction and using the imagination, or thinking, or was it the other way around, and technology brought it about? Who knows. But maybe the good old days really were the good old days. As for me, I'll keep reading and writing. LOL Looking forward to your new book release in May!
Bobby thanks so much for watching the YouTube of my Flash Fiction piece, Changing the Guard; hope you enjoyed it. Thanks also for reading my recent blog post. Did it bring back memories for you and growing up with grandparents/parents using these items? Do you have an elderly techy? How are things?
Jane wrote: "Bobby, thanks for reading my blog and the short stories (flash fiction there) I hope you enjoyed them. Appreciated. :)"You're welcome! Sorry I only now saw this post! They place them at the bottom of my profile page and I didn't notice it. Enjoy both the blog and the short stories. Hope they keep coming! :-)
Bobby, thanks for reading my blog and the short stories (flash fiction there) I hope you enjoyed them. Appreciated. :)
Dianna wrote: "As a friend and fan I'm currently reading a number of his books and each has left me emotionally and psychologically changed for the better. He takes you with him so you can see,smell and hear the ..."Thanks so much! I write in different genres, as well as a few continuing series, but try above everything else, to tell a truly involving story that also transports the reader there, whether it is a time and place, a tender emotional moment, or action-filled scene with tension and excitement. Hopefully all my work is lent a cinematic quality through description. Nothing beats a book for transporting you into another world. Hopefully as a writer, I accomplish that. It is the most important thing a writer does, I believe.
As a friend and fan I'm currently reading a number of his books and each has left me emotionally and psychologically changed for the better. He takes you with him so you can see,smell and hear the world you're in. Not many authors can do that consistently. Do not pass up an opportunity to read one of his books,for it certainly won't be your last.Dianna Slowey-Thomas