Kevin G. Chapman is an attorney specializing in labor and employment law and an independent author. His current project is the Mike Stoneman Thriller series. Righteous Assassin (Mike Stoneman Thriller #1), was named one of the top 20 Mystery/Thrillers of 2019 by the Kindle Book Review and a finalist for the Chanticleer Book Review CLUE award. Deadly Enterprise (Mike Stoneman Thriller #2) was also named a top-20 Mystery/Thriller of 2020 by the Kindle Book Review and is on the Short-List for the 2020 CLUE Award. Book #3, Lethal Voyage, was published in November of 2020 and is already Shortlisted for the Chanticleer CLUE award. Book #4 in the series, Fatal Infraction, will be published in the summer of 2021. Kevin has also written a serious political drama, A Legacy of One, originally published in 2016, which was short-listed for the Chanticleer Somerset Award for literary fiction. A Legacy of One will be re-published in a newly re-edited and revised edition in 2021. Kevin is a resident of Central New Jersey and is a graduate of Columbia College and Boston University School of Law. Readers can contact Kevin via his website at www.KevinGChapman.com.
It’s getting close! The launch of Lethal Voyage (Mike Stoneman Thriller #3) is just a month away, on November 22. For fans who Pre-Order the new book (for $2.99) will get it delivered to their Kindle on Nov. 22. The book will be available in all formats on Nov. 22 — Kindle and Paperback on … More 30 Days to the Lethal Voyage Launch Party!
I recorded this little video clip for the Mercer County Library system. It contains a quick trivia question about Righteous Assassin. The answer is included at the end of the video, so make sure to pause the playback after I ask the question so you can think about the answer. Don’t cheat! bob-nuse-trivia-q
Ruth Ware’s wildly popular novel is an exercise in internal anxiety reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe – just much longer. The first-person narrator, Laura (“Lo”) Blacklock, is a journalist for a British travel magazine. She scores a plush assignment of sailing on the maiden voyage of a small luxury cruise ship/yacht owned by a rich … More The Woman in Cabin 10, by Ruth Ware [Review]
This is the most unique vampire story I’ve ever read or seen on the screen. Without spoiling anything, the principle vampire characters, Chase and Hunter Bardock, are part of a vampire family living in an underground compound in Queens. Both have traits that make them unusual among their kind, and that bring them closer to … More The Human Cure, by Tracy Auerbach [Review]
The baseline plot of The Cerberus Affair is immediately attention-getting and quickly draws the reader into the mystery. Catherine, a beautiful but sexless single mother of an adopted son, is a former journalist. At the same time her son is getting ready to go off to university, Catherine’s world is rocked by the news of … More The Cerberus Affair, by Charlotte Valentine [review]
This book of short stories is like the fever dream of a drug-addicted surrealist artist. The Parasite story (the first) has some elements of sci-fi, but lacks characters, a coherent story, an obstacle to be overcome or a goal to be achieved, and fails to even try to explain how an insect-like parasitic organism is … More The Parasite from Proto Space (and other stories), by Brett Petersen [Review]
If you are in a book club, or know anyone who is in a book club, please pass this along. Pretty much all book club meetings nowadays are virtual anyway. If any book club reads one of my books, I will show up for their meeting. I’ll log into the zoom and answer questions and … More I’ll come to your Book Club meeting!
Lethal Voyage (Mike Stoneman #3) is now officially done. I am in the process of narrating the audiobook version. There may be a few typos to correct still, but no more re-writing (once the audiobook is recorded, I really can’t tinker with the printed text). Since the book is set on a cruise ship, I … More Lethal Voyage is finished!
I have finished the text version of Lethal Voyage — book #3 in the Mike Stoneman Thriller series. While I wait to hear back from Literary Agents about the prospects for finding a traditional publisher who wants to publish the rest of the series (and the next one after that), I will be delaying setting … More Lethal Voyage — Audiobook Production is up next!
I read book #1 in the Jelvia series (Holding out for a Hero) and now have jumped to the most recent installment, Spider. T.E. Kessler has created a unique world in which Humans live alongside a super-human race of Jelvia. This installment delves into the common fetishes and motivations of both races through the eyes … More Spider: Jelvia: Not Human (#3), by T. E. Kessler [Review]
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