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It happened.
Despite cover setbacks, despite E.J.’s mother being taken to Emergency to then land in ICU for cardiac problems, To Inherit a Murderer is finally–finally–out in hard copy, not just eBook (available in all eBook formats for only $4.99). So, for those of you who enjoy a tense, well-written story about a murderous kid who needs a friend and a woman who hasn’t a clue how to be “Mom,” get your copy here for only 14.95!
You can also order a personalized autographed copy direct from the author for only $19.95.
And you can try before you buy! Read the first chapter here. Or read, rate, and review the first 8 chapters here.
ABOUT TO INHERIT A MURDERER
At seven, William killed his mother’s dog. At ten, he stabbed his father with a letter opener. There’s the murder of the family maid.
Willed custody of her best friend’s son, Deborah brings home a boy driven by hatred and rage. Injured by him the very first day, he threatens her carefully secured life with increasingly violent acts.
But William begins to believe in Deborah as he has never believed in anyone. When Deborah starts to trust in William, though, death answers.
A chilling account of a woman who, against her better judgment, reaches out to a boy everyone has pegged as evil. –Liz Brenaman
Reuk is up there with the best. Crisp, balanced prose. A unique, well-told story. And a protagonist and antagonist the reader won’t be able to get enough of. I’m thrilled The Ward is just the first book in a series. …The Ward is the reason I keep sifting through the galaxy of small and independent publishers; the novel is unique, and it’s very good. –Clayton Bye, Reviewer
Publication Date: Oct 03 2009
ISBN/EAN13: 1449512518 / 9781449512514
Page Count: 290
Binding Type: US Trade Paper
Trim Size: 6″ x 9″
Language: English
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
E. J. Ruek, pronounced “rook”, writes contemporary mainstream novels with just a nod to nerve-tingling what-if possibility.
“Novels translate life into words without sacrificing the grimace and the giggle.
“In life, things are not always as they seem–not on the surface and not underneath. I like that. I like to write about that. Your auntie might not be that nice lady you always thought she was. In fact, she might be nicer. In fact, she might have hidden knowledge that you never dreamed someone like her could harbor, much less use. She has secrets, and those secrets drive the neighbors crazy, because they just ‘know’ that something isn’t quite as ‘normal’ as it should be. …And it isn’t.
“You just never know. You can never assume. Because, when you do, things happen.”
You can find E. J. on the Net at http://www.EJRuek.com.
‘AN IRISH COUNTRY DOCTOR’ by Patrick Taylor, Brandon, June 2009, £8.99, pb, 322 pages, ISBN:978-0- 86322-400-3.
More faction than fiction, for Doctor Taylor calls heavily on his own experiences as an Ulster country doctor, the characters in this book first saw life in a series of humourous medical tales in ‘Stitches’, the apt name for the ‘Medical Journal of Humour’. Indeed it was the editor who encouraged the development of these characters and their hilarious stories into novel form. Patrick Taylor is an experienced Irish novelist, and writer of humour, and it shows.
‘An Irish Country Doctor’ is a deceptively simple novel, and guaranteed to make readers laugh. Lovers of James Herriot’s ‘All Creatures Great and Small’ will enjoy this novel, substitute people for animals and you have the same sort of laughter over peculiar country practises, larger than life eccentrics, and humanity’s foibles.
Patrick Taylor writes of a remote Ulster community in the early 1960s, seen through the eyes of a newly qualified doctor, assistant to the irascible older doctor, a well established character who does not do things by the medical book. Those of us who remember the delightful television series: ‘Doctor Finlay’s Casebook’ will see shades of young apprentice Doctor Finlay and choleric Doctor Cameron here, and indeed the novel would make a delightful, humourous television series. I certainly hope a sequel is being written.
The book is a tonic in itself and should be available on prescription. Do buy it for any one who needs cheering up.
pdr lindsay
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