Review of Deadly Pleasures by Micki Peluso

If you would like to read Micki's review connect with the link below.  Thanks everyone and I am so grateful for all these wonderful reviews.  Mary.

http://www.mallie1025.blogspot.com/ 

Review of Deadly Pleasures by Marilou George

If you would like to read this review please click on the link below.  Thanks everyone, Mary Firmin

  http://confessionsofreader.blogspot.com/2012/06/deadly-pleasures-by-mary-firmin.html?spref=tw

Review by Brenda Sorrels

                                                      DEADLY PLEASURES

If you want a great ride, something exciting and fast paced, then this is the perfect book to read. Things heat up right away in the opening scene where a drugged-up prostitute, Sherrie, (red garter belt and lace) is having sex with her trick, George. George is a member of the Bayside Yacht Club where our protagonist, Megan Riley and her three rich girlfriends hang out. Between grunts, groans and lots of sweat, George studies a framed photograph of Sherrie with her close friend, another prostitute named Allison, who was brutally murdered six months prior. George dies in ecstasy having an orgasm with Sherrie and the women of the Yacht Club are about to be pulled into a murder mystery! As prostitutes continue to turn up dead, things ramp up even more and the Yacht Club ladies, as an antidote to their cheating husbands and boring lifestyle, hire a boy-toy. Megan, a struggling real estate agent and recovering alcoholic, is a breath of fresh air in the group and goes along only because of their friendship. There is a taste of reality TV in the superficiality, the cattiness, the whining. I could picture all of the women, except Megan, on “The Housewives of Orange County!” The boy-toy thing was amusing and a gutsy turn on the double standard. The plot thickens when their boy-toy turns out to be the suspected killer.
    Enter Matt Donovan an LAPD detective, widower and all-around good guy who is determined to find the horrific murderer….(victims are mutilated, their right breasts cut off) Megan and Matt are soon an item. The ride continues… on and off yachts, into the world of sadomasochism - scenes all vividly described and well rendered, very real. I admit I did learn something here. There was one “club” that was located in a house on top of a hill and people had to take a tram and have a password in order to get in. It was a party like I’ve never seen and reminded me of that Tom Cruise/Nicole Kidman movie “Eyes Wide Shut.”
The story never loses it’s roller-coaster pace and there is a thrilling scene in the end set on one of the yachts that left me on the edge of my seat. The ending was my favorite part of the book. All of the loose ends came together and all of the scenes paid off in a satisfying way. So, take your e-reader on the plane or grab your towel and hit the beach. Let “Deadly Pleasures” engage and entertain you in a really fun way!

Coming in July: Summer Bash Giveaway

Starting July 1st Lightning Book Promotions is putting on a Summer Bash to promote some Independent authors and I am going to be one of them. It's promoting books that are .99 and there are going to be some great prizes but the biggest one will be a Kindle Fire! So I wanted to give everyone a heads up to be looking for the Summer Bash Giveaway in July!! For more information check out the sidebar badge if you click on the link it will take you to LBP's write up on the bash.

Hi Friends, This has been an extraordinary week and I don't know where to begin. My blog tour to 10 fabulous bloggers, who also reviewed the book, took place and the results were excellent. You can go to Amazon.com and see most of their reviews posted on the Deadly Pleasures page.  Also, last week, Deadly Pleasures was featured in the New York Times, Book Review section, as part of an advertisement by Rising Star Books of  iUniverse.  That was a thrill! And if that was not enough, I received a dozen copies of an inset in Publisher's Weekly magazine, devoted to Indie Authors, and I found that Deadly Pleasures had a small blurb in there and directions where to buy it.  My little book is surprising the heck out of me. One thing I know for sure, my husband Bill is looking down from heaven and saying, "Go Mary." I can never thank him enough. That's if for now folks. Something exciting is in the wind, so I will tell you all about it if it works out. All the best,
Mary Firmin

BRAND NEW INTERVIEW

Hi Friends, I want to let you know that the authors of I.O.U.Sex, (see my review below.) is featuring an interview with me on their very popular blog site at:   http://iousex.blogspot.com.  I wish to thank Sandra Nachlinger and Sandra Allen for reading my book, Deadly Pleasures, and for taking their valuable time to feature me and my book on their Blog. Thank you again, ladies, Mary

SEX AND THE CITY MEETS JAMES PATTERSON

Blueink Review, "Sex and the City meets James Patterson."

Kirkus Review,  "a swiftly paced tale of lust, seduction, duplicity, and horror that keeps the pages turning."

ForeWord Clarion Review,  "Firmin writes more like a seasoned storyteller than a debut novelist."  Five  Stars

Readers Favorite Review, "The best mystery I have ever read."  Five  Stars.

Anonymous screenwriter,  "Sex in the City meets Criminal Minds."