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Speaking of Writers

By: Steve Richards
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  • Welcome to Speaking of Writers. Veteran broadcaster Steve Richards interviews local, regional and best selling authors. For more info email steve @ sval622@sbcglobal.net. Cover art photo provided by Janko Ferlič on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@thepootphotographer
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  • Ace Atkins- Don't Let The Devil Ride
    Jun 25 2024

    New York Times bestselling author Ace Atkins enters new literary territory with DON’T LET THE DEVIL RIDE, a captivating new novel that finds a woman uncovering deadly secrets about her husband after he disappears. Atkins has penned an elevated thriller that tackles difficult themes while also delivering a totally entertaining story. How well do we know the people closest to us? How well do we know ourselves.

    About the author: Ace Atkins is an award-winning, New York Times bestselling author who started his writing career as a crime beat reporter in Florida. Don’t Let the Devil Ride is his thirtieth novel. His previous novels include eleven books in the Quinn Colson series and multiple true-crime novels based on infamous crooks and killers. In 2010, he was chosen by Robert B. Parker’s family to continue the iconic Spenser series, adding ten novels to the franchise. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi with his family.

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    18 mins
  • Randy Wayne White -One Deadly Eye
    Jun 23 2024

    Randy Wayne White is the bestselling and award-winning author of the prolific and longstanding Doc Ford series. In 2022, Randy endured Hurricane Ian on Sanibel Island in Florida, which caused historic damage, destroying houses and knocking out the only bridge to the island. Randy stayed on the island through the storm, unreachable for a tenuous period. Now, he’s rebuilding, like everyone else on the island.

    This dramatic experience became the inspiration for his new Doc Ford novel ONE DEADLY EYE (Hanover Square Press) as Ford rides out the deadliest storm to hit the island in a century and tries to stop a gang of criminals who swoop in to take advantage of the evacuation and pillage and kill, during the twelve hours of chaos that follow the passing of a storm’s dangerous eye.

    Here, White combines his expertise of nature writing, Florida, and masterful craft of crime thrillers, to bring us ONE DEADLY EYE.

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    A Russian diplomat disappears while Doc is tagging great white sharks in South Africa, and members of a criminal brotherhood, Bratva, don’t think it’s a coincidence. They track the biologist to Dinkin’s Bay Marina on the west coast of Florida, where Brotherhood mercenaries have already deployed, prepared to pillage and kill in the wake of an approaching hurricane.

    No one, however, is prepared for a cataclysmic event that will forever change the island and leaves Doc to deal with escapees from Russia’s most dangerous prison, including a serial killer—the Vulture Monk—who has a taste for blood. His only ally is an enigmatic British inventor whose decision to ride out the storm might have more to do with revenge than protecting a priceless art collection.

    Doc has a lot at stake—the lives of his fiancée, Hannah Smith, and their son, plus the fate of his hipster pal, Tomlinson, whose sailboat has disappeared in the Gulf of Mexico. The greatest threat of all, though, is a force that cannot be escaped—a Category Five hurricane that, minute by minute, melds sins of the past with Florida's precarious future.

    ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

    Randy Wayne White is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Doc Ford series. In 2011, White was named a Florida Literary Legend by the Florida Heritage Society. A fishing and nature enthusiast, he has also written extensively for Outside Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, Men's Journal, Playboy and Men's Health. He lives on Sanibel Island, Florida, where he was a light-tackle fishing guide for many years, and spends much of his free time windsurfing, playing baseball, and hanging out at Doc Ford's Rum Bar & Grille. Sharks Incorporated is his middle grade series, including Fins and Stingers.

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    24 mins
  • Kimberly Belle- The Paris Widow
    Jun 21 2024

    Seemingly perfect couples running from their pasts and hiding dark secrets that eventually catch up with them are the specialty of USA Today and internationally bestselling author Kimberly Belle. In her latest novel of suspense, The Paris Widow (Park Row Books), Belle draws us into the intrigue, outrage, and rapidly mounting danger surrounding what begins as a horrifying, heartbreaking tragedy for our heroine, Stella Knox.


    KIMBERLY BELLE is the USA Today bestselling author of nine novels, including The Personal Assistant, My Darling Husband, A Stranger in the Lake, Three Days Missing, Dear Wife, and The Marriage Lie, a Goodreads Choice Awards semifinalist for Best Mystery & Thriller. Her books have been published in more than a dozen languages and optioned for film and television. A graduate of Agnes Scott College, she worked in marketing and nonprofit fundraising before turning to writing fiction and lived for over a decade in the Netherlands. She currently divides her time between Atlanta and Amsterdam with her husband and two children.


    Affirming Kimberly Belle’s reputation for twist- and tension-packed thrillers with jaw-dropping revelations that keep readers riveted and guessing until the final page, The Paris Widow also opens a fascinating, and chilling, window into the illicit trade of blood antiquities—which, as the author attests from her research, is “booming to the tune of around eight billion dollars per year.”

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    16 mins

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