Spotlight on author Ian Loome

I ran into author Ian Loome on Goodreads recently. His blog caught my eye and I had to pull up his info and check out his books.

Ian wrote an interesting post this weekend about book reviews, things behind the electronic scenes and things I did not know. 

Check it out: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/21120314-a-fairly-definitive-guide-to-spotting-ebook-review-cheats

Ian writes three series and has written several standalones.

The Liam Quinn series has 14 books to date. This is a mystery/thriller/heist series.

Book one: Quinn Checks In

About: An ex-con making amends. A missing Dutch master. A thrilling whodunit...

Liam Quinn has a second chance. Released after four years in prison for art forgery, a connection helps him get a job as an expert insurance investigator. But a gallery robbery is about to throw his new plans for a loop...

Quinn is a good man who has made mistakes. His large Irish American family are leery of his past, and having two police officers in the family doesn't help. The entire department mistrusts him, and half the town wants his head.

His chance for retribution rests on recovering a multi-million-dollar missing painting... if the local mob doesn't kill him first.

The Joe Brennan series consists of a prequel and three books. This is a spy thriller series that "readers have compared favorably to Tom Clancy and Robert Ludlum."

Bangkok Deadly is the prequel in this series.

About: "Joe Brennan has left the navy, putting the SEALS and the trials of Afghanistan behind him. He's taking a long-deserved vacation in Thailand when he meets a mysterious American woman. When she disappears, his curiosity leads him into a world of seedy smugglers, powerful street gangs and a culture not his own. Whether he saves her or not, people are paying attention to how he performs under deadly pressure."

The Max Castillo series has four books. Mystery/thriller/P.I. series.

The first book is Buried in Benidorm.

About: "Ex-priest Max Castillo has given up on faith, but not on people. In his first three stories from author LH Thomson, the Benidorm, Spain-based private investigator takes on three very different murder investigations … and argues his case against his former employer, the Catholic church — much to the chagrin of his best friend and associate, Caridad Paredes. Together, they dig up sordid secrets under the Spanish sun."

For lovers of Robert B. Parker, John D. MacDonald and Sue Grafton, this private eye series offers a steady stream of action and adventure, humor and even some romance."

He has also written several other books, way more than I can list here. You can find them on Goodreads, Amazon and his website below:

https://deathbytyping.com/

If you go to his website, you can get Bangkok Deadly and Quinn Checks In for free.

I haven't had a chance to read them yet. As I said I just ran into Ian recently but the series look good to me and Ian Loome has a pretty interesting bio.

About: 

"Born in Libya to British/Canadian parents, Ian Loome grew up dividing time between England, Greece, Angola and Canada. He describes his childhood as “bizarre,” at least in part due to undiagnosed ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder-1.

After years in and out (often by expulsion) of various schools, he got a job at a weekly newspaper. He spent the next twenty-four years in weekly and daily journalism, winning national recognition as a reporter and editor. He has interviewed or covered a wide range of major figures, including U.S. Presidents, three Canadian Prime Ministers, Hollywood stars, blues legends, and award-winning authors. He has won national recognition for news reporting, feature news writing and editing.

“I grew up in a household where it wasn’t uncommon for everyone to read four or five books a week, across genres, and so I write in numerous styles. Quinn is largely a result of loving Fletch, Spenser and Jim Rockford as a kid. Brennan is the redheaded stepchild of writers like Ken Follett, Robert Ludlum and Frederick Forsyth. The Cafe Girl has more in common with Graham Greene and Patricia Highsmith than anything contemporary. I like to mix it up.”

He lives in Canada with his partner, Lori, an environmental scientist. They have a household full of adopted pets. In his spare time, Loome reads, plays blues guitar, pickleball and golf, and enjoys cooking."