OMG! I'm so excited!!
One of my favorite authors, the wonderful and very talented, Pamela Clare has agreed to blog over on the ship ( http://yohowriterslifeforme.blogspot.com/ ) on Wednesday, March 19. She's going to be talking about her new release, UNLAWFUL CONTACT, the third book in her I-Team investigative reporter series.
About a year and a half ago, I stumbled onto Ms. Clare's second book, HARD EVIDENCE, and I couldn't put it down. It was a scene stealer. It was fabulously written. HARD EVIDENCE blew me away and with the excerpt posted on Ms. Clare's website ( http://www.pamelaclare.com/ ) tells me that UNLAWFUL CONTACT will exceed it and I can't wait!
I wrote a book review for HARD EVIDENCE about a year ago. I was just so taken with Ms. Clare's writing style.
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Title: Hard Evidence
Author: Pamela Clare
Series: I-Team Investigative Reporter
Books Prior with Relevance: Extreme Exposure
Published: October 2006
Reader Stars (1-5): 5
Review:
I’m normally skeptic about starting a new author; especially authors I’ve never heard of, seen around when I’m scouting for books or came from word of mouth. I was desperate for a book, having read all six that I took with me on vacation and needing something to soothe me on the plane ride home. I spent a couple of days looking, not finding anything I hadn’t already read or owned at home when I found “Hard Evidence”. I will admit what drew me to the book in the first place is the cover (because I thought if the cover was from one of the written scenes than I figured it had to be somewhat hot even if the storyline wasn’t all that fantastic, I could suffer through). But boy, oh boy was I glad I took a chance.
“Hard Evidence” is a romance suspense novel written in the third person so that you see through the eyes of the Special Agent/main hero, Julian Darcangelo and hardcore crime investigative reporter/heroine, Tessa Novak. Tessa Novak is an eye witness to a brutal drive by killing at a gas station and doesn’t know that she’s accidentally stumbled onto a case that’s been building against a violent prostitution ring leader by the name of Burien for three long years. When deep undercover Special Agent Julian Darcangelo shows up at the crime scene, Tessa mistakes him as the killer, and writes a first person eye-witness statement that goes first page, giving Julian’s description out for the world to see. As you can imagine, things get heated between them when Tessa can’t seem to keep her nose out of Julian’s business and the only way to keep her from doing so is to keep her under 24 hour surveillance at all times- at his own home. Along the way, both characters past lives are revealed and a terrific plot is weaved and solved, but this writer never stumbles one step. The book was wonderfully written and edited, enthralling all the way throughout the book and I couldn’t put it down.
I will warn that scenes in this book are very graphic, the language is very coarse in some parts and the sexually explicit scenes are enough to make the ink melt off the pages. “Hard Evidence” was a great mix of everything that I love about fiction: the grit of the author, the spellbinding emotion put into each word, paragraph and page and the exceptionally weaved plot. The book isn’t a lighthearted read, expect to find yourself challenged emotionally for the characters and fighting for them to do the right thing and thinking about it after you sit it down. It’s darker in a sense of the subject matter and the way she writes: very angsty, very driven, very worth the read and time.
I’ve ordered the first book and expect it this week. I imagine that it will live up to my expectations or more and this author is a sure buy for me from now on.
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Amen to that. The only problem is that Ms. Clare only puts one of these books out a year! Please be sure to visit Ms. Clare at ( http://www.pamelaclare.com/ ) and check out her first two books, Extreme Exposure and Hard Evidence at ( http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/102-5281364-4600142?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Pamela+Clare ) Please be sure to check out the Romance Writer's Revenge ship for Pamela Clare's blog on March 19 and be sure to pick up UNLAWFUL CONTACT on April 01! And that's no April Fool's joke!
One of my favorite authors, the wonderful and very talented, Pamela Clare has agreed to blog over on the ship ( http://yohowriterslifeforme.blogspot.com/ ) on Wednesday, March 19. She's going to be talking about her new release, UNLAWFUL CONTACT, the third book in her I-Team investigative reporter series.
About a year and a half ago, I stumbled onto Ms. Clare's second book, HARD EVIDENCE, and I couldn't put it down. It was a scene stealer. It was fabulously written. HARD EVIDENCE blew me away and with the excerpt posted on Ms. Clare's website ( http://www.pamelaclare.com/ ) tells me that UNLAWFUL CONTACT will exceed it and I can't wait!
I wrote a book review for HARD EVIDENCE about a year ago. I was just so taken with Ms. Clare's writing style.
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Title: Hard Evidence
Author: Pamela Clare
Series: I-Team Investigative Reporter
Books Prior with Relevance: Extreme Exposure
Published: October 2006
Reader Stars (1-5): 5
Review:
I’m normally skeptic about starting a new author; especially authors I’ve never heard of, seen around when I’m scouting for books or came from word of mouth. I was desperate for a book, having read all six that I took with me on vacation and needing something to soothe me on the plane ride home. I spent a couple of days looking, not finding anything I hadn’t already read or owned at home when I found “Hard Evidence”. I will admit what drew me to the book in the first place is the cover (because I thought if the cover was from one of the written scenes than I figured it had to be somewhat hot even if the storyline wasn’t all that fantastic, I could suffer through). But boy, oh boy was I glad I took a chance.
“Hard Evidence” is a romance suspense novel written in the third person so that you see through the eyes of the Special Agent/main hero, Julian Darcangelo and hardcore crime investigative reporter/heroine, Tessa Novak. Tessa Novak is an eye witness to a brutal drive by killing at a gas station and doesn’t know that she’s accidentally stumbled onto a case that’s been building against a violent prostitution ring leader by the name of Burien for three long years. When deep undercover Special Agent Julian Darcangelo shows up at the crime scene, Tessa mistakes him as the killer, and writes a first person eye-witness statement that goes first page, giving Julian’s description out for the world to see. As you can imagine, things get heated between them when Tessa can’t seem to keep her nose out of Julian’s business and the only way to keep her from doing so is to keep her under 24 hour surveillance at all times- at his own home. Along the way, both characters past lives are revealed and a terrific plot is weaved and solved, but this writer never stumbles one step. The book was wonderfully written and edited, enthralling all the way throughout the book and I couldn’t put it down.
I will warn that scenes in this book are very graphic, the language is very coarse in some parts and the sexually explicit scenes are enough to make the ink melt off the pages. “Hard Evidence” was a great mix of everything that I love about fiction: the grit of the author, the spellbinding emotion put into each word, paragraph and page and the exceptionally weaved plot. The book isn’t a lighthearted read, expect to find yourself challenged emotionally for the characters and fighting for them to do the right thing and thinking about it after you sit it down. It’s darker in a sense of the subject matter and the way she writes: very angsty, very driven, very worth the read and time.
I’ve ordered the first book and expect it this week. I imagine that it will live up to my expectations or more and this author is a sure buy for me from now on.
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Amen to that. The only problem is that Ms. Clare only puts one of these books out a year! Please be sure to visit Ms. Clare at ( http://www.pamelaclare.com/ ) and check out her first two books, Extreme Exposure and Hard Evidence at ( http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/102-5281364-4600142?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Pamela+Clare ) Please be sure to check out the Romance Writer's Revenge ship for Pamela Clare's blog on March 19 and be sure to pick up UNLAWFUL CONTACT on April 01! And that's no April Fool's joke!
