{"id":356,"date":"2019-01-16T13:47:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T18:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billhawkinswriter.com\/wordpress1\/?p=356"},"modified":"2025-08-28T15:17:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:17:49","slug":"356","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billhawkinswriter.com\/wordpress1\/2019\/01\/16\/356\/","title":{"rendered":"Crime writing with a smirk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Swindled of their life savings by their retirement home manager, the ladies of the 4 o\u2019clock poker club are destitute and off the grid. Violet, Marybeth, Mini, Doris, Ruby, and Bernice retire to an abandoned farm. But how

The ladies are, to a woman, determined not to be a burden on anyone. When the FBI fails to retrieve their savings, the reality of dying poor crashes in on them, and desperation pushes them inexorably toward the brink, the ladies cut loose with their own outrageous brand of international crime spree.

Anyone who has an elderly parent or grandparent that isn\u2019t safely locked away should read this and worry.

\u201cWhat happens when five \u2018golden years\u2019 escapees set out with a hundred thousand dollars and a rental car on a tropical island? Great fun, that\u2019s what! Hawkins\u2019s tenderness for his characters enriches the wit and wisdom of these golden gals on their high-spirited adventure.\u201d \u2013 Barbara Kyle, bestselling author of the Thornleigh Saga novels.<\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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IN THE WORKS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

BEHIND THE IVY WALL<\/strong>
Discovering that the girl he loves is being trafficked by ruthless gangsters, and that even the police are corrupt, high school loner Caleb Forster, forced to choose fight or flight, opts to fight. Meet the likes of Alex Cross and Jack Reacher before they knew enough to fear death or pain in this romantic thriller that graduates into full on action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AMIGOS<\/strong>
Finishing high school from a remote mountain cabin, Caleb Forster discovers the lone surviving child from a camp of murdered migrants. With only the child, an addicted friend, and his own instincts to back him up, Caleb is cornered, his only way out to take on New Mexico\u2019s most powerful drug lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CERTIFIED PUBLIC ASSASSIN \u2013 CPA<\/strong>
When the word gets out that she has eliminated a troublesome IRS agent for a client, tax accountant, single mother, Kate stumbles into a new career as a hit woman. Stephanie Plum meets the Jackal in a way that will change the way you think of killers for hire, and accountants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JAMAICAN VACATION \u2013 A CPA novel<\/strong>
Kate Long is back in another comic crime thriller. Fleeing the flow of assignments to kill people she\u2019s never met, Kate heads for the islands. Landing in Jamaica, she finds good and bad come wrapped as one, when her ID is stolen and accounts are raided by a thief in need of a new \u201cclean\u201d identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRIBE<\/strong>
When their home and lives are threatened, four broken teens in Canada\u2019s foster system set off on a journey that will bond them together forever, if they survive the adventure. Walk Me Home meets The Goonies in this tale of discovery and longing for a place to call their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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KATE AND MINI<\/strong>
With the nation on the brink of the second world war, sisters Kate and Mini flee their troubled home, setting off an interstate manhunt with a string of bold, armed robberies, and becoming the most wanted women of the decade. But how long can they last with the explosive baggage they carry tearing them apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WIND, RAIN, AND BLOOD<\/strong>
Katya, a young Russian girl, runs for her life, alone in her world of fear, pursued relentlessly by the man who brought her to America to sell her. Tori, an investigator with the Texas State Troopers, follows the trail of blood, hoping to catch up and save the Katya, the only girl who can identify the enigmatic human trafficker, Mikhail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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