Bella Wright

Bella Wright blogs about books, film and media.

Self-Publishing vs. Traditional Publishing: What Does the Data Tell Us?

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What can book sales data tell us about where and how to publish your book? Plenty, as a new study indicates. With technology making it easier than ever to become your own publisher, authors have lots of choices, ranging from going it alone, joining a small publishing house, or submitting their work through the traditional agent and publishing house system. We’ll get to what the […]

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Silent Source, a First-Rate Medical Thriller by James Marshall Smith

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The Bottom Line: A first-rate medical thriller that establishes new author James Marshall Smith as one of the year’s best newcomers. Among local law enforcement, scientist Damon Keane is something of a celebrity in Atlanta. So when Atlanta police’s Special Operations Section find themselves faced with three ghoulish deaths and no solid leads, the mayor himself finds Dr. Keane – who is volunteering at a

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Beleagured Truth

Beleaguered Truth, a Hard-Hitting Political Thriller by William P. Messenger

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The Bottom Line: The second entry in William P. Messenger’s Shattered Triangle Series is a hard-hitting political thriller that deftly blends fact and fiction. Beleaguered Truth begins where Messenger’s Shattered Triangle leaves off, with an expanded first-person confession of the crime that was the focus of the first book in the series. Core characters Senator Giuseppe Lozano, Father Giovanni Lozano and Lieutenant Tom Moran are

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Shattered Triangle, a Well-Characterized Murder Mystery by William P. Messenger

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The Bottom Line: An uncommonly well-characterized murder mystery about the friendship between a politician, a priest and a police lieutenant. When a leading candidate for the U.S. Senate returns to his Los Angeles home, he finds his wife, two teenage daughters and eleven-year old son murdered. To investigating lieutenant and close family friend Tom Moran, it looks like a professional hit. But what could the

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Triple Crossed, a Highly Recommended Crime Thriller by R.C. Hartson

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The Bottom Line: A first-rate crime novel told in the classic noir tradition of Raymond Chandler, Jonathan Cain and Dennis Lehane. Highly recommended. Chicago private eye Cleve Hawkins’ latest client is Bethany Hubbard, a socialite who suspects her husband is cheating. But when her chemist spouse goes missing, Hawkins suspects a mob connection. Will Hubbard’s vow to keep his company’s stealth project a secret cost

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A Selfless Man, a Cinematic Page-Turner by Shawn Raymond Poalillo

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The Bottom Line: A cinematic page-turner about family, spite and sacrifice that manages to be both tragic and uplifting. Highly recommended. In 1994, projected first-round NFL draft pick Roland Moses was arrested for killing a man in Harlem. He went to prison. In 2015, he returned for his one and only year in the NFL, where as a 46-year-old running back for the New York Giants,

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Wolves at the Door, an Emotionally Raw Psychological Thriller

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 The Bottom Line: An emotionally raw, first-person psychological thriller about a young reporter who internalizes the tragedies he reports. Reporter Peter Downs appears to have it all. He’s young, married, fit and fiercely intelligent, with a glamorous job as a TV news anchor. All is not as it seems, however, as Downs is a self-described “highly depressive paranoid with nothing to lose and nothing to

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Transplant

Transplant, a Powerful Medical Thriller by Ambika Mathur-Kamat

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The Bottom Line: A powerful medical thriller about the ethics of organ transplants, the desperate world of donors and the people who control the system. At Michigan’s Mount Carmel University, a world-famous organ transplant team prepares a patient for a liver transplant. Suddenly, a woman suddenly appears in the operating room with a gun. She claims that her son, who is near death elsewhere in

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The Mask of Minos, Everything You Hope For in an Archeology Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Everything you hope for in an archeology thriller – superstitious lore, Nazis and a spectacular historical artifact that breathes new life into the genre. The Mask of Minos opens during Germany’s doomed invasion of Russia in 1941, where two operatives reveal a massive cloak and dagger effort to possess a rare and powerful artifact. Given the book’s title, it’s no spoiler to

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