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John Valeri

Portland

Writer and Reviewer at Freelance

Reader, Writer, Reviewer. Host of online interview show Central Booking (YouTube). Lover of books, SCREAM & Gloria Estefan!

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  • 1 week ago | crimereads.com | John Valeri

    Few characters are as beloved in the hearts and minds of audiences as Murder, She Wrote’s Jessica (J.B.) Fletcher. Article continues after advertisementAs portrayed by the iconic Angela Lansbury, Jessica Fletcher—a widowed English teacher turned unwitting mystery novelist and amateur sleuth—was first introduced to television viewers in 1984.

  • 2 weeks ago | crimereads.com | John Valeri

    Just because you think you know your characters doesn’t mean they can’t still surprise you. Article continues after advertisementDavid Handler will tell you as much. A former journalist and television scribe, he’s been writing about dapper if somewhat downtrodden celebrity ghostwriter and occasional PI Stewart Hoag—better known as “Hoagy”—for nearly forty years.

  • 4 weeks ago | crimereads.com | John Valeri

    Tess Gerritsen may not have been trained in the art of spy craft, but she knows a thing or two about flying under the radar. Article continues after advertisementAs a woman of a certain age, no matter how accomplished (30+ books published in forty countries with sales in excess of forty million copies), Gerritsen has felt firsthand how the “the arrogance of youth” overshadows “the wisdom of experience,” often rendering elders unseen, as if shrouded by an invisibility cloak.

  • 1 month ago | criminalelement.com | Janet Webb |Doreen Sheridan |John Valeri

    The tension never lets up in Battle Mountain, the 25th Joe Pickett novel. Legendary game warden Pickett has been in the job for a good long time: his longevity in his post is noted often, as is his legendary reputation. For following the letter of the law. An evil man, Axel Soledad, has inflicted immeasurable pain on the people in Joe’s life. Axel killed falconer Nate Romanowski’s wife and burned down falconer Geronimo’s house, causing his wife and daughter to flee to the East Coast.

  • 1 month ago | criminalelement.com | Doreen Sheridan |Janet Webb |John Valeri

    If you only went by her Instagram and other social media, Kerry Walsh would be very much living the writer’s dream. After a short story she’d written was published in The New Yorker and went viral, she landed a six-figure publishing deal for a novel based on the story, with potentially more to come given the interest a famous director has in adapting her finished book for the screen.

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John Valeri @OyeJohn52
14 Apr 25

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John Valeri @OyeJohn52
12 Apr 25

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John Valeri
John Valeri @OyeJohn52
4 Apr 25

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