Saturday, January 25, 2020

New and Fresh

Murder on Pleasant Avenue (A Gaslight Mystery)Murder on Pleasant Avenue by Victoria Thompson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Great seeing everyone again. Once again one of their own is in trouble. I did wonder who done it. I also know one character was not what she seemed. The story includes a lot of historical information woven into the setting and the plot. This series is holding its own with new and interesting characters and plots.

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1 comment:

Stephanie Barko said...

Hi Jo-

Hope you're having a relaxing night in Little Rock.
Have a review request & book rec for your, a sci-fi alternate history mystery.


This story is a heart-pounding political satire set in 1941 NYC that eerily parallels Washington, DC today, the perfect novel for a US election year.

Your review would be due in March at Amazon, Goodreads, B&N, and your blog.

Rocket’s Red Glare: A WW II Era Alternate History Novel (Abeel Street Press, 3/14/20) by Cy Stein
historical fiction / alternative history, paperback & ebook, 290 pages, $15.99 & $9.99.



Synopsis
Rocket’s Red Glare is an alternative history novel set in New York City, 1941.
FDR is dead and the US is fascist. Charles Lindbergh is president and Joseph P. Kennedy is Treasury Secretary. Fred Trump is Mayor of New York.
Oligarchs and plutocrats have the presidential ear. German American Bundists are rioting while police look away. As WW II officially begins, the British are defeated.
FBI agent Jack Kennedy begins to suspect the Holocaust about the same time he discovers that Lindbergh has a second family in Germany.
Work on the bomb begins as a romance deepens between a mobster’s daughter and a scientist at Los Alamos. The mob and America’s top scientists form The Resistance, working under a mysterious leader whose identity is revealed in the last chapter.

Author Bio
An avid student of history since childhood, Cy Stein began his career as a historical novelist with publication of The Medicus Codex in 2016.
Currently Dr. Stein serves as senior academic physician at City of Hope, a research center, hospital and graduate medical school.
The native New Yorker resides near Los Angeles with his family. Rocket’s Red Glare is his second novel.

Excerpt
https://historicalfictionexcerpts.blogspot.com/2020/01/book-excerpt-rockets-red-glare-ww-ii.html

Book trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqXZYk-Uij4


Website
coming soon at www.cysteinbooks.com

Egalleys and paper galleys are now available. Would you like one?

Looking forward to your response,
Stephanie Barko, Literary Publicist
stephanie@stephaniebarko.com