by Tj O'Connor | May 13, 2018 | Tj O'Connor
A Rogue terrorism consultant. His dead brother. A beautiful Persian refugee. Iran. Russian. Terror. Fear. Prejudice. America’s heading back to war. Someone has to stop it . . . It’s spring in Virginia. The birds are chirping, the flowers blooming, and the bad guys are...
by Tj O'Connor | Apr 13, 2018 | politics, The Plot Thickens, Tj O'Connor
Thirty-three Days and counting … The Consultant, the first of the Jonathan Hunter Thrillers, releases from Oceanview Publishing—May 15th, 2018. Oh, the anticipation … the endless nights rethinking every line, every plot point, the beginning and ending and middling (is...
by Tj | Apr 6, 2017 | Black Opal Books, cozy, Dying for the Past, Dying to Know, Dying to Tell, Gumshoe Ghost, Historical murder mystery, mystery novels, New Sins for Old Scores, Paranormal Mystery, Tj O'Connor
Nighttime belongs to mystery and intrigue—evil, too. I could say it belongs to love, but I write mysteries and thrillers, not romance novels. For me, I do my best thinking around midnight. I also do my best panicking and second-guessing. Don’t we all? It’s not...
by Tj | Feb 26, 2017 | Black Opal Books, dogs in fiction, Gumshoe Ghost, historical fiction, Midnight Ink, murder mystery, mystery, New Sins for Old Scores, osteosarcoma, Paranormal Mystery, Richard Jax, Tj O'Connor, Trick McCall
by Tj O’Connor Cancer should be spelled with an F. That’s the way I spell it—F—ing Cancer. Cancer took my girl. Fast. Painfully. Heartlessly. First it took her by surprise. Then it took her leg. Then it took her dignity. Then, it forced me to …...
by Tj | Jan 4, 2017 | Black Opal Books, Gumshoe Ghost, historical fiction, historical mystery, murder mystery, mystery, New Sins for Old Scores, Paranormal Murder Mystery, Richard Jax, Tj O'Connor, Trick McCall
by Tj O’ConnorTemporary Cover ArtMy sins are surfacing. They’re on the horizon, inching ever closer, and it’s time I dealt with them head-on. Like many a wild and crazy-guy, my sins come with scores to settle, too. There’s nothing better than a good battle of...
by Tj | Nov 2, 2016 | Black Opal, Dying for the Past, Dying to Know, Dying to Tell, Kill your darlings, Midnight Ink, Monster mania, Monstermania, murder mystery, mystery, Tj O'Connor, William Faulkner
Kill ’em! Kill ’em all! Die my darlings, die!Phew, now that I got that out. Let me explain.William Faulkner—you know, that slouch author—is famed for many things like his 1949 Nobel for Literature and The Sound and the Fury not least among them. He is also noted for...
