Tarot cards, mystery and suspense all in one!
Shirley Roe
April 25, 2005
Genre: Mystery
EIGHT OF SWORDS
AUTHOR: David Skibbins
Warren Ritter, tarot card reader and man of mystery has spent thirty years incognito, hiding from his past. Not convinced that there is anything mystical about the cards or having any delusions that he is psychic, he simply gives readings for money.
A young woman sits down for a tarot reading and Warren’s life changes forever. The teenager, Heather is kidnapped and her mother comes in search of the psychic that was the last one to see her alive. Warren tries to assure her that the girl is alive and like the daughter, he gives her a tarot card with his name on it. What happens next makes Warren Ritter very nervous; the mother is killed and he is starting to look like the most likely suspect. Naturally after a life of several identities and a nomad-like existence, his first instinct is to run but for some unknown reason he can’t let this crime go unsolved. Is he reading the tarot or are the cards guiding his destiny?
Author, David Skibbins spins a web of intrigue, mystery and suspense with the skill of a very adept storyteller. Readers will find Warren fascinating with his secrets of the past, his shaky psyche and his stubborn determination to find the missing girl. Full of suspicious characters, friendly and not so friendly policemen and a bulldog of an FBI man, Eight of Swords is a book that is hard to put down. Warren’s unlikely lover, a paraplegic hacker named Sally will fast become a favorite of readers. Setting descriptions are vivid and easy to imagine; an aura of mystery surrounds booklovers as pages are turned. Fortunately for mystery fans, this is the first book in a series of Warren Ritter mysteries. Watch for The High Priestess coming soon. This reviewer will be waiting anxiously for book two. Reviewer: Shirley Roe, Allbooks Reviews.
Books may be purchased directly from the publisher and available on: www.amazon.com
Title: Eight of Swords
Author: David Skibbins
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martins Minotaur
ISBN: 978-0-312-33906-7
Pages: 261
Price: $23.95
EIGHT OF SWORDS
AUTHOR: David Skibbins
Warren Ritter, tarot card reader and man of mystery has spent thirty years incognito, hiding from his past. Not convinced that there is anything mystical about the cards or having any delusions that he is psychic, he simply gives readings for money.
A young woman sits down for a tarot reading and Warren’s life changes forever. The teenager, Heather is kidnapped and her mother comes in search of the psychic that was the last one to see her alive. Warren tries to assure her that the girl is alive and like the daughter, he gives her a tarot card with his name on it. What happens next makes Warren Ritter very nervous; the mother is killed and he is starting to look like the most likely suspect. Naturally after a life of several identities and a nomad-like existence, his first instinct is to run but for some unknown reason he can’t let this crime go unsolved. Is he reading the tarot or are the cards guiding his destiny?
Author, David Skibbins spins a web of intrigue, mystery and suspense with the skill of a very adept storyteller. Readers will find Warren fascinating with his secrets of the past, his shaky psyche and his stubborn determination to find the missing girl. Full of suspicious characters, friendly and not so friendly policemen and a bulldog of an FBI man, Eight of Swords is a book that is hard to put down. Warren’s unlikely lover, a paraplegic hacker named Sally will fast become a favorite of readers. Setting descriptions are vivid and easy to imagine; an aura of mystery surrounds booklovers as pages are turned. Fortunately for mystery fans, this is the first book in a series of Warren Ritter mysteries. Watch for The High Priestess coming soon. This reviewer will be waiting anxiously for book two. Reviewer: Shirley Roe, Allbooks Reviews.
Books may be purchased directly from the publisher and available on: www.amazon.com
Title: Eight of Swords
Author: David Skibbins
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martins Minotaur
ISBN: 978-0-312-33906-7
Pages: 261
Price: $23.95
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