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I will have a book review, giveaway, and excerpt! First, let's get to know the Author!
A paralegal by day, she’s an author by night. Apart from being an
award winning author for her short story "Cut", Reina has appeared in
a blaze and made her mark on the literary world with her Ivanovich Series. The
first is “In the Name of Revenge”, the second, “Deadly Decisions” and the
third, "One Major Mistake" is to be released July 10, 2012. Having
studied and obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Literature/Creative Writing, she
has found her unique style and is known for her works' distinctive voice,
making every character stand out.
Reina is the artistic creator of the Ivanovich series
featuring Pavel Ivanovich. Flanking Ivanovich's side in "Deadly Decisions"
is Teresa Mancini, who vies with Ivanovich for readers' attention. According to
J.M. LeDuc, who was "raised in an Italian family", Teresa "is
perfect...like all your characters". Reina is also the author of young
adult novella "Cruel Whispers" and its sequel novel "Cruel
Past".
Reina is an executive editor for Suspense Magazine. She has
been interviewed in the newspaper and on the radio with relation to her fiction
work. She has been a co-host on Suspense Radio.
She has won three Best Speaker awards as well as Best
Evaluator at the Voice Ambassadors chapter of Toastmasters. Reina is a member
of Sisters in Crime, Los Angeles Chapter and nationally. She has always been
active in events. As co-chair and main coordinator for the West Coast Author Premiere,
she arranged the weekend-long event to help authors from all over network,
learn and share their work with the public. Reina has also been instrumental in
compiling authors and planning a local author event at Barnes and Noble in
Ventura, California along with the store’s event manager.
Despite having brought down two major crime families, Pavel’s life is still filled with problems. The two bright things in his world: Teresa Mancini, his fiancée, who, on a good day, has the ability to bring him to his knees and his daughter Rita Grace, a result of a whirlwind affair before he fell in love with Teresa. Once again, murder is the prime evil propelling Pavel into his latest case. After the murder of his partner and friend Nick Haxton’s ex-wife Brenda, Pavel leads a team to dethrone Guillermo Diaz, the leader of a drug gang believed to be responsible for Brenda’s death. Agent Danni Stone joins the local agency. Stone knows Diaz on the most intimate of levels, and Pavel views this as suspicious.
As if Pavel can take anymore, Teresa receives a substantially large check from an anonymous benefactor, and insists that Pavel deal with it while she decides how to spend it. But not before she uses her iron-willed determination to find out who the benefactor is even if it means breaking into her attorney’s office looking for answers. Being thrown in jail would stop any ordinary woman, but apparently not Teresa.
Join Pavel as he wades through harrowing situations, suspects aplenty and suspense in this third thrilling installment of the Ivanovich Series.
My Rating:
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My Review:
I love being able to try and solve the crime with the characters! Reina created suspense that is so real I felt nervous or shocked as something happened.
The characters were not at all one dimensional and I felt like I continued to learn about them until the very end.
Definitely a story that keeps you on your toes!
Having never read a Starr Reina Novel or the first two in this series, I wasn't sure what to expect and was pleasantly surprised that I never felt like I was missing something. Starr Reina does a great job of having her books stand alone, even though after reading you will have the desire to read more in the series!
EXCERPT
Shouting in the
outer room cut him off. Pavel flung the door open and saw agents ducking
beneath their desks, guns drawn. Everyone was yelling.
“Put your
weapon down!”
“Let him go!”
It was total
pandemonium.
“Shit,” Pavel
said quietly. “Guys,” he nodded toward the outer room. “This doesn’t look
good.”
Pavel
immediately grabbed his weapon, squatted down and slowly made his way into the
room toward the nearest desk. He peered over it and saw Lazlo standing in the
middle of the room, a man with his arm around his throat, gun aimed at his
head. The man was yelling for everyone to throw their weapons down.
“I’ll kill
him!”
The man backed
toward the door, dragging Lazlo with him. Forensco dashed toward the main room
and ducked down behind his desk. The man began shooting wildly. Bullets
whistled over the desk in the back where Pavel was crouching.
“Put the weapon
down and let’s discuss this,” Pavel yelled to the man.
“Throw your
guns down or he dies!”
“I won’t let
them hurt you,” Lazlo tried to reassure the man.
“Shut up!” he
smacked Lazlo on the side of the head with the butt of the gun.
Pavel noticed
that Nick made his way to the edge of the room and the rest of the team
dispersed themselves within the room, taking cover behind file cabinets,
counters and desks. Pavel looked at Nick and moved his head in the direction of
where the man was holding Lazlo. Nick understood his meaning.
“Okay,” Pavel
yelled, his heart thundering in his chest. “Everyone do as he says. Slide your
weapons to the center of the room.”
He could hear
metal clanging against the floor. He glided his gun across the floor with the
others and stood up, hands raised, knowing that if it came to that, he still
had his backup strapped to his ankle. Sweating now, he stood there hoping the
gunman didn’t start shooting at him. He wouldn’t have time to get to his piece.
He tried to talk the man down.
“Okay, we’re
all unarmed. Let him go,” Pavel told him.
He made eye
contact with Lazlo and tried to mentally tell him he would be fine.
Suddenly Agent
Forensco stood up in front of Pavel and aimed at the man.
“Let him go!”
Forensco yelled.
“Forensco, put
it down,” Pavel ordered.
The man
appeared startled and nervous. He began waving his gun at Forensco then at
Pavel and back at Lazlo. It seemed to Pavel that the gunman was as out of
control as the situation was. Forensco ignored Pavel and shot toward the man, barely
missing Lazlo. Pavel figured the man reacted out of fear when he shot back at
Forensco. He missed. Pavel ducked down, but kept his eyes trained on what was
unfolding in front of him. The gunman aimed back at Lazlo’s head and pulled the
trigger. Pavel saw his boss crumple to the floor.
“No,” Pavel
screamed as an initial reaction.
Almost
instantaneously, Nick came around the corner and fired a clean shot to the head
of the unknown man, who fell next to Lazlo.
Pavel ran
toward Lazlo, yelling for someone to call nine-one-one. Even in his despair, in
the back of his mind, he knew it was too late, but he tried all the medical
techniques he knew in order to save Lazlo. Nothing worked. A few attempted to
pull him away from Lazlo, but Pavel didn’t see who they were. All he could see
was that both Lazlo and the crazed man were dead.
GIVEAWAY
This is the LAST stop on the BLOG TOUR. Visit the links below for more Reviews, Giveaways, Interviews, and More!
July 23 - The Phantom Paragrapher - Review/Guest Post/Excerpt
July 25 - A Dream Within a Dream - Review/Giveaway/Excerpt
July 26 - Insomnia of Books - Review/Interview
July 27 - Taking it One Page at a Time - Review/Guest Post
August 1 - Valli's Book Den - Review/Excerpt
August 2 - Cozie Corner - Review/Giveaway
August 6 - Dive Under the Cover - Excerpt/PROMO
August 7 - Mademoiselle le Sphinx - Review/Guest Post/Giveaway
August 8 - Sweeping the USA - Review/Giveaway/Excerpt
August 9 - The Story of a Girl - Review/Giveaway/Excerpt
August 9 - My Reading Addiction - Review/Giveaway/Excerpt
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