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Wadsworth author writes gripping thriller

Published on Sunday, Feb 17, 2008

In frigid February, a trip to the Caribbean sounds pretty good, doesn't it? It did for Maggie Brown and her 10-year-old daughter Tracey, too. Until Tracey was kidnapped.

In Wadsworth author Cynthia L. Hall's novel Secret Sacrifices, Maggie must summon Tracey's father Matt to the Virgin Islands in a frantic search for the girl, because the local law can't be trusted.

Hall adds a deceptive pair of golden-agers and an incoming tropical storm, and she has the elements of a gripping thriller. But it's Tracey's story that is the most compelling, as she joins forces with other kidnap victims to win freedom and expose an international crime ring. Secret Sacrifices (softcover, 195 pages) costs $19.95 from http://www.publishamerica.com.

Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll

Saint Barthelemy is another one of those Caribbean pleasure spots, and the setting for St. Bart Breakdown, a saga of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll by Lima author Don Bruns. Bruns' recurring character Mick Sever, a famous rock journalist, has accepted an assignment to interview megaproducer Danny Murtz at his villa on St. Bart.

Murtz has a bad reputation with women — not only does he push them around, but also the last few he's dated haven't been seen again. Can Sever find out what's happened to them? Can he do it before he's killed by a car bomb or run off a winding road?

St. Bart Breakdown is a zippy read; Murtz's drug-induced paranoia is nicely drawn, and his buttoned-up secretary is not as repressed as she seems (though readers may guess her secret early on).

St. Bart Breakdown (288 pages, hardcover) costs $24.95 from http://www.oceanviewpub.com.

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• From 2 to 4 p.m. today at the Bookseller, Akron author Jack Gieck will sign Early Akron's Industrial Valley: A History of the Cascade Locks, and Robert D. Haag will sign Footpath to Ancient Campsites in Copley Township, Ohio. The shop is at 39 Westgate Circle, in the shopping plaza across from West Point Market.

• Also at 2 p.m. today, journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault will appear as part of the Cleveland Public Library's Writers and Readers Series. Her 1992 memoir, In My Place, was about her time at the University of Georgia; in 1962, she was the first African-American woman graduate. The library is at East Sixth Street and Superior Avenue.

• On Monday at Joseph-Beth Booksellers at Legacy Village in Lyndhurst, Dan Kennedy will sign Rock On: An Office Power Ballad, his memoir of writing and producing ads for Atlantic Records. Tuesday's guest is Deborah Rodriguez, author of Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil, the story of her trip to Afghanistan. Both appearances are at 7 p.m.

• The Sumner on Ridgewood retirement community is sponsoring monthly ''Mini Mondays'' author talks, free and open to the public, through May. At 7 p.m. Monday, Russ Musarra and Chuck Ayers will discuss Walks Around Akron in the Great Hall, 970 Sumner Parkway, Copley Township. Call Kimberly Kurtz at 330-664-1289 to reserve a spot.

• Author Karen Hasley will present Women Moving West: A Heritage of Strength and Faithfulness, at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Brunswick branch of the Medina County District Library, 3649 Center Road. She'll follow the show with a signing of her two novels, the fine Western Lily's Sister and the new Waiting for Hope.

• Dr. Stephen Post, a bioethicist at Case Western Reserve University, will discuss and sign Why Good Things Happen to Good People at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Cuyahoga Falls Library, 2015 Third St., and at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Hudson United Methodist Church, 2600 Hudson-Aurora Road. The church's Hudson United Methodist Women is hosting the latter event, and the Learned Owl Bookshop is bringing the books. Call 330-650-6688 for reservations.
— Barbara McIntyre
Special to the Beacon Journal

Send information about books of local interest to Lynne Sherwin, Features Department, Akron Beacon Journal, P.O. Box 640, Akron, OH 44309 or lsherwin@thebeaconjournal.com. Event notices should be sent at least two weeks in advance.

 

In frigid February, a trip to the Caribbean sounds pretty good, doesn't it? It did for Maggie Brown and her 10-year-old daughter Tracey, too. Until Tracey was kidnapped.

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