Welcome to day’s Tour Stop for Hermit of Paradise by Kim Sanders. I only found out that this stop was for today about 34-35 hours ago, so I’m only 3/4 done with the book–I had to choose whether to finish or to make something up. I opted for reading the thing, so we’ll have to be satisfied with this Spotlight for a day or so (I honestly don’t know when I will have the ability to write up a post, it’s coming, I swear).
In the meantime, you should go to https://twitter.com/WriteReadsTours feed to see all things that bloggers who have their grawlix together are saying about this novel.
Book Details:
Title: Hermit of Paradise by Kim Sanders
Genre: Fiction / Literary
Publisher: Brown Books Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
Length: 304 pg.
US Publication Date: October 8, 2024
About the Book:
A Fight for Lost Innocence‘
Detective Auby Midnight is retired. Or so he imagines. Jaded and transformed by a long career of witnessing degeneracy, tragedy, and true evil, he reflects on the place that first nurtured him: Paradise Cove, Lake Texoma, and the rich, endearing memories of mischief, adventure, and friendship that shaped his childhood. That is, until the day a violent feud brought irrevocable trauma for his best friend, Sunny.
Now Sunny implores the wearied Auby to right the wrongs of the past and return to the case that has haunted him and his childhood friends for years. Older, wiser, and far more experienced, they set out to defeat the evil that stole their innocence and restore the magic of Paradise Cove.
Inspired by the author’s own life events as a sixth-generation Texan and a former member of the Dallas Police Department with decades of experience under his belt, Hermit of Paradise explores meaning, morality, and the fight to stay human in the face of a grim and complicated world.
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About the Author:
Kim Sanders is a sixth generation Texan who grew up in the South Oak Cliff area of Dallas, Texas. Shortly after finishing his active duty in the US Army, he was hired by the Dallas Police Department, where he worked for thirty-three years. His assignments there included Detention Services, Uniformed Patrol, Vice, Narcotics, and Homicide. He spent twenty-three years in the Narcotics Division, the last fourteen of which were assigned to the United States Drug Enforcement Administration as a Task Force Officer. He was one of the few officers in the US who worked in an undercover capacity across three separate decades. He was the lead undercover officer in three separate deep-cover operations, each of which lasted over a year in duration. His last lead deep-undercover assignment before he transferred to Homicide took him from working in Texas to New York City as he infiltrated complex Colombian heroin cartel networks. Kim has received numerous federal, state, and local awards, including the Dallas Police Department Medal of Valor. Kim is married to fellow retired Dallas Police Detective Martha “Coco” Sanders. They reside in Texas.
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My thanks to The Write Reads for the invitation to participate in this tour and the materials they provided.
Carol @ ReadingLadies
I did a similar thing this week. I scheduled myself to review the 3rd installment of a book on pub day ….all neatly written on my blog calendar! Well, I started my review and the book didn’t sound familiar at all. It took me a minute to realize what happened….when I received the arc I had the bright idea to read installment 2 before beginning installment 3. I read the second and then completely forgot I hadn’t read 3….in my defense the titles are similar, so when I saw it on NG and my blog planner, I KNEW I had read it. Oops! So I spent the day reading…luckily it was only 300 pages. On the bright side, it was fresh in my mind for writing the review! 😂 I love your idea of doing a spotlight and I’ll remember that for my bag of tricks!
allysonyj
No WWW this week? And here I had such interesting things to say about Kathleen Koen, Rafael Sabatini, Margaret Drabble and maybe others. (Sabatini, if you haven’t heard of him, was the Lee Child of the 1920’s, author of over 30 novels (one a year, like Child) plus short stories, dramatic adaptations…)
HCNewton
Went up about the same time as this comment 🙂