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BOOK REVIEW – Trick or Treat by Sally Anne Morris

By Marty Mulrooney

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Trick or Treat by Sally Anne Morris is a comedic romance novel with a supernatural twist. Lucy Diamond (Lucy Michelle Eleanor Jude Rita Diamond to be exact) is an average girl with an average life, until one day she starts hearing voices and seeing the dead. But just how successfully can she juggle her troubled love life and high maintenance friends alongside her newfound psychic abilities? Happy Halloween to all of Alternative Magazine Online’s readers!

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GUEST POST – Cover Versions

By Guy Adams

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Guy Adams trained and worked as an actor for twelve years before he became a full-time writer. As DCI Gene Hunt, he penned The Rules Of Modern Policing – 1973 Edition, The Future Of Modern Policing – 1981 Edition and The Wit and Wisdom of DCI Gene Hunt. He has also written numerous other tie-in books as well as his own original works of fiction. Today, he joins AMO to discuss literary ‘Cover Versions’ in an exclusive online guest post!

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BOOK REVIEW – Drive by James Sallis

By Marty Mulrooney

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Drive is a 2005 novella by American crime writer James Sallis which was recently adapted into a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling. Set in L.A, it tells the story of a man known only as ‘Driver’, who is a Hollywood stunt driver for movies by day and a getaway driver for criminals by night. In classic noir fashion he is double-crossed when a robbery goes horrifically wrong, setting in motion a series of events that will irrevocably lead him down a road of revenge and violence, forcing him to break his strictly enforced code. “I drive. That’s what I do. All I do.”

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BOOK REVIEW – Buried Secrets by Joseph Finder

By Marty Mulrooney

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Buried Secrets is the latest book in international bestseller Joseph Finder’s new series featuring private corporate investigator Nick Heller. Heller hasn’t long returned home to Boston to start his own agency before family friend and hedge fund titan Marshall Marcus reaches out for help – his daughter, Alexandra Marcus, has been kidnapped. But this is no ordinary kidnapping. Alexandra has been buried alive in an underground casket, her desperate cries for help streaming via live video feed over the internet. Time is quickly running out…

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