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J.L. Delozier

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Thriller, Crime, Paranormal

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Stephen King
Michael Crichton
Shirley Jackson
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As a physician, J.L. Delozier draws inspiration from science that exists on the edge of reality—bizarre medical anomalies, new genetic discoveries, and anything that seems too weird to be true.
Her debut was nominated for a “Best First Novel” award by the International Thriller Writers organization; her fourth novel, Con Me Once, won a Silver Falchion Award. Her latest murder-mystery, The Photo Thief, won an Ippy Award for Best Mystery and was nominated for Thriller and Silver Falchion awards. Her equally award-winning short fiction has appeared in Artemis Journal, The Pittsburgher, Thriller Magazine, Retreats from Oblivion, and various anthologies.
A retired Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Penn State, she lives in Pennsylvania ...more

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	The Photo Thief 4.11 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 2022 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Type and Cross 4.07 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Storm Shelter 4.36 avg rating — 47 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Con Me Once 4.36 avg rating — 28 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writers Crushing COVID-19 by Lawrence Kelter (Editor), Lynn Chandler Willis (Goodreads Author), Barry Lancet (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood Type X 4.56 avg rating — 18 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Noirville: Tales From The Dark Side 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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It's been two years - TWO YEARS - since I've written a post for this blog. I could shout all kinds of excuses, most of which revolve around the fact that I'm a physician, and there's been a, ya know, pandemic. But I won't, because we know. Sigh. We know.

The bottom line: I'm back, baby, and doing it in style with this fun, top-five list of Las Vegas-based novels featuring cons.

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Beautifully written and so, so evocative. In theme, it reminded me somewhat of the 1995 movie Strange Days, which also dealt with the "business" of monetizing memories. A must read. ...more
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Culturally rich and beautifully written, with characters as authentic as they come. I love the backstory to this novel - the homage to the author's father, heritage, and love of everything Philadelphia (especially the Phillies!) The fact that the boo ...more
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Fite accomplishes the rare feat of writing a dystopian thriller that is haunting yet heart-pounding thanks to its focus not on the viral cataclysm that sets the plot in motion but on a mother and her young children and their flight to what they hope ...more
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A Cold, Cold World, the much-anticipated second installment of the author’s Bet Rivers series, delivers in spades. Sheriff Elizabeth “Bet” Rivers struggles to protect the people of Collier, Washington, a tiny mountain town, from a monster blizzard—an ...more
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“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

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“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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“Write the book the way it should be written, then give it to somebody to put in the commas and shit.”
― Elmore Leonard

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