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.
Here’s the link to the replay of the Facebook Live! Launch Party for Lethal Voyage. On Nov. 22, we spent an hour with my readers and fans (well, all readers are fans . . . ) talking about the books, sharing a pina colada martini (the featured drink aboard the fictional Colossus of the Ocean … More Lethal Voyage Successfully Launched Nov. 22 — Watch the Launch Party here!
Detective Sergeant Nathaniel Brannick is a tortured soul with an unusual supernatural power: the ability to touch a dead body and see the last moments of the person’s life. A nice trick for a crime-solving detective, particularly in late 19th Century London, where modern forensics techniques are not an option. Brannick’s life at the start … More Consumed, by Justin Alcala [Review]
InD’Tale magazine reviews dozens of books each month. It’s reviewers hand out “Crown Hearts” to the books it recommends for its readers. The reviewers will award a Crown Heart to a review that garners 4.5 out of 5 stars. There are several of those in the November issue, but only a small handful of 5-Star … More 5-Star Review for Lethal Voyage in this month’s InD’Tale Magazine!
Enter on Goodreads to win a free autographed paperback first edition of book #3 in the Mike Stoneman Thriller series, Lethal Voyage. The book launches Nov. 22. Enter here: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/312712-lethal-voyage
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]
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