Marcia's Dead
Marcia’s Dead has all the ingredients of a classic murder mystery, expertly written. We start with a questionable death, add a...
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Jackson Coppley
- Oct 23
- 1 min
Lost in Time
In Lost in Time, Riddle takes us on a twisting roller coaster of time travel. Like a detective story, the book begins with a murder and a...
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Jackson Coppley
- Sep 10
- 2 min
American Dirt
When I first approached American Dirt, I assumed it was a story I’ve read and viewed in movies, one of the brutal hardships of those who...
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Jackson Coppley
- Aug 22
- 1 min
Four Seasons in Rome
You have seen my blog review of Cloud Cuckoo Land by the very talented Anthony Doerr. His previous masterpiece was All the Light We...
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Jackson Coppley
- Aug 18
- 2 min
Rehoboth Beach Reads Short Story Contest names winners
I was honored to be a judge for Beach Holidays ‘Beach Holidays’ anthology to be published in late 2022 August 17, 2022 Cat & Mouse Press...
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Jackson Coppley
- Aug 13
- 1 min
Denouement
Denouement the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or...
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Jackson Coppley
- Jul 23
- 1 min
The Nineteen
Jake Needham takes you to Thailand on another Jack Shepherd adventure. This time around, we get to know a young DEA lawyer, Lucas Ryan,...
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Jackson Coppley
- Jul 11
- 1 min
Cloud Cuckoo Land
One of my favorite books is All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr. So, when Doerr came out with his next work, Cloud Cuckoo Land,...
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Jackson Coppley
- May 4
- 1 min
The Immortality Key
When I first encountered The Immortality Key, I was skeptical. Proving that the earliest religions used psychedelics? Was this written by...
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Jackson Coppley
- Apr 19
- 2 min
Happy Endings?
You may have seen my book review of Nightmare Alley. Since that review, I’ve seen the recent movie version starring Bradley Cooper. I...
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Jackson Coppley
- Apr 1
- 2 min
Does Truth in Fiction Count?
Is it just me, or do the details matter when enjoying fiction? As a citizen of the Washington, DC, area, it annoyed me when the character...
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Jackson Coppley
- Mar 27
- 2 min
Run Rose Run
James Paterson’s collaboration with celebrities is an interesting exercise in guessing where one collaborators' work ends and the other...
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Jackson Coppley
- Feb 27
- 1 min
Sooley
I was born in North Carolina and went to N.C. State, therefore basketball is my heritage. North Carolina has four traditional powerhouses...
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Jackson Coppley
- Feb 14
- 2 min
Nightmare Alley
A few months ago, while my wife and I prepared for a signing in our local bookstore of my latest novel, we saw on a nearby rack Nightmare...
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Jackson Coppley
- Feb 4
- 2 min
The Lincoln Highway
A friend thought The Lincoln Highway at 592 pages was too long, but for me, I didn’t want it to stop. I knew Amor Towles could deliver...
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Jackson Coppley
- Jan 15
- 1 min
YouTube Mania
I’ve used YouTube for many years. I like making videos and sharing with my friends. At the beginning of December 2021, one of my videos,...
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Jackson Coppley
- Jan 8
- 1 min
The Confessions of Young Nero and The Splendor Before the Dark
I became interested in the Roman emperor Nero in researching my novel The Fire Starters and touring his buried Golden House in Rome. The...
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Jackson Coppley
- Dec 14, 2021
- 2 min
The Extinction Trials
A.G. Riddle’s Extinction Trials begins with a man inviting leading industrial leaders to a private meeting in which he poses an...
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Jackson Coppley
- Oct 31, 2021
- 1 min
The Family Man
You can judge a book by its cover. Not so with A Family Man. As I write this, author Anna Willett may have changed the cover from the one...
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Jackson Coppley
- Oct 10, 2021
- 1 min
The Madness of Crowds
The Madness of Crowds, the latest novel from Louise Penny, was my first exposure to this author’s series of Inspector Gamache mysteries,...
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