Featured Author – Allison M. Azulay

Lewis Carroll

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:16 February 2021
Post category:Children Fantasy Featured Author Readers
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Funny enough, I never read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking-Glass as a child. But I happened upon a Bantam Classic book that comprised both, recently, and sat…

STEVE BERRY

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:2 February 2021
Post category:Adventure Featured Author Thrillers and Suspense
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The Emperor's Tomb takes the reader from Denmark to Belgium to Vietnam to China, following a former American agent and his friend, a wealthy woman with a passion for archaeology…

DAN BROWN

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:19 January 2021
Post category:Featured Author History Readers Thrillers and Suspense
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I've featured Dan Brown's work before, but The Lost Symbol bears special consideration. Even the cover hints at the complex layers of symbols and meanings found throughout the story: When…

JUDITH MILLAR

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:5 January 2021
Post category:Featured Author General Fiction Opinion Writers
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Most of the books we read are mass produced by large companies like Harlequin, Dell, Penguin, and so on. Some may have been published by smaller companies like Medallion Press…

Scarlett Scott

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:8 December 2020
Post category:Featured Author Romance

Writer Scarlett Scott has written contemporary novels, but the majority of her steamy tales are historical romances―many of her characters noblemen, though not necessarily noble men. At least, not until…

Arthur C. Clarke

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:24 November 2020
Post category:Featured Author Readers Science Fiction

Like many other extremely successful authors, Arthur C. Clarke co-wrote some of his books with another author. In the case of a three-book series that includes Time's Eye, Sunstorm, and…

Isaac Asimov

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:10 November 2020
Post category:Featured Author Readers Science Fiction

Masterful is the word that describes The Robots of Dawn. That may seem overblown for what amounts to a whodunit in space, but it was a word that sprang to…

Joel Salatin

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:27 October 2020
Post category:Featured Author Readers

This recommendation is a little different from my usual: Joel Salatin, for those who have not encountered his name before, is a farmer and advocate for old-style natural farming techniques…

Robert Crais

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:13 October 2020
Post category:Featured Author Mystery Readers Thrillers and Suspense Writers

More mystery than thriller, Robert Crais's Chasing Darkness follows a detective's hunt for the truth after a man he had helped clear of murder is found dead with evidence he…

Mallory Kane

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:29 September 2020
Post category:Featured Author Mystery Readers Romance Thrillers and Suspense Women's Fiction

If you like Harlequin Romances, you'll enjoy Mallory Kane's intriguing heroes. Solving the Mysterious Stranger, subtitled The Curse of Raven's Cliff, is set in a coastal Maine village and pits…

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I NOTICED THE SWAGGER FIRST: that arrogant saunter that said, “I’m irresistible and I know it.” He was good-looking, yes—as emphasized by the tight jeans that displayed every muscle and more than hinted at one in particular. And the chambray shirt open to show off a broad chest matted with jet hair that proclaimed his masculinity.

–excerpt from Bad Twin

GINETTE LAY STARING into darkness in the low cot by the grand canopied bed in which Lady Barton snored softly. To her surprise and dismay, the old woman had roused from her fireside dozing when she entered the room and had insisted on regaling her with more tales of the foibles and weaknesses of the aristocracy as Ginette helped her undress.

Thinking back on it, she realized there had been a subtle urgency in the manner of the viscountess. Indeed, now that she recalled her months as maid-cum-companion, she recognized that she had felt yet dismissed a sense of impendence. At first, she had wondered was it she who anticipated something vaguely threatening, or was it Lady Barton who expected some event? Now, a certainty filled her that Lady Barton’s choosing to employ her signified much more than she had guessed.

But what?

–excerpt from Propositions and Proposals