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By: Gary S. Roen
• The Game Master
so many different levels of entertainment.
By: William Bernhardt Publisher: Babylon Books
• 14th Deadly Sin
By: James Patterson & Maxine Paetro Known for his legal thrillers, Bernhardt Publisher: Little Brown and Company tells an entirely different tale with “The Game Master.” As the novel begins there is a murder of a scientist and a woman is Detective Lindsay Boxer has one of her kidnapped. BB The Game Master finds that toughest cases to solve because the perthe woman is his daughter who has been petrators are dressed as cops in “14th kidnapped by someone who wants to play Deadly Sin,” the newest installment of a new kind of game with him. He and his the Women's Murder Club. Lindsay must ex-wife travel around the world picking up determine if they are impersonators or clues like a scavenger hunt that also plays real cops committing many different out like different games including poker, crimes, as well as figure out why on one monopoly, and several others that are part of the member's birthdays each year of the clues. Also there is a national crisis, there is a murder that remains unsolved. that ties into the search for BB's daugh- She begins to wonder if there is a conter. Like his legal thrillers, Berhardt fills nection. “14th Deadly Sin,” like the other the story with suspenseful situations and novels in the series, is rapidly paced to a story that moves along very quickly to its final conclusion. The plot has many its final revealing ending. “The Game Mas- twists and turns to keep readers turning ter” is a tense nail biting thriller that has pages until the end. “14th Deadly Sin” is
Author, consultant and syndicated book reviewer Gary S. Roen has been writing his appraisals of books for over 35 years; his reviews have appeared in hundreds of daily and weekly newspapers and other periodicals. Over the years Roen has been the Promotion / Sales Representative for several publishing houses. He was a talk show host on the Rollins College radio station, was co-host on a weekly radio talk show on “Desperate and Dateless,” was the roving reporter for “The Tourist Breakfast Travel Show,” frequently appeared on The Michelle Valentine show on cable and was a monthly guest on the Bobbie Thomas show. Find him currently on the “My Home Town” show with Jim Turner (WBZW, Orlando) and the Larry Steele show (WPUL, Daytona Beach). Roen also works for numerous companies in the field of market research in the Central Florida area as an independent contractor. 42
Lake Legal News Aug. 2015