{"id":250,"date":"2008-07-21T12:25:15","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T17:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/\/?p=250"},"modified":"2008-07-21T12:27:58","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T17:27:58","slug":"try-darkness-by-james-scott-bell-cfba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"Try Darkness by James Scott Bell – CFBA"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n

This week, the<\/span>
\nChristian Fiction Blog Alliance<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nis introducing<\/span><\/p>\n

Try Darkness<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n

(Center Street – July 30, 2008)
\nby<\/strong><\/p>\n

James Scott Bell<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>JAMES SCOTT BELL is a former trial lawyer who now writes full time. He has also been the fiction columnist for Writers Digest magazine and adjunct professor of writing at Pepperdine University.<\/p>\n

The national bestselling author of several novels of suspense, he grew up and still lives in Los Angeles. His first Buchanan thriller, TRY DYING<\/a>, was released to high critical praise, while his book on writing, Plot and Structure<\/a> is one of the most popular writing books available today.<\/p>\n

ABOUT THE BOOK<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>Ty Buchanan is living on the peaceful grounds of St. Monica\u2019s, far away from the glamorous life he led as a rising trial lawyer for a big L.A. firm. Recovering from the death of his fianc\u00e9e and a false accusation of murder, Buchanan has found his previous ambitions unrewarding. Now he prefers offering legal services to the poor and the underrepresented from his \u201coffice\u201d at local coffee bar The Freudian Sip. With his new friends, the philosophizing Father Bob and basketball-playing Sister Mary Veritas, Buchanan has found a new family of sorts.
\nOne of his first clients is a mysterious woman who arrives with her six-year-old daughter. They are being illegally evicted from a downtown transient hotel, an interest that Ty soon discovers is represented by his old law firm and his former best friend, Al Bradshaw. Buchanan won\u2019t back down. He\u2019s going to fight for the woman\u2019s rights.
\nBut then she ends up dead, and the case moves from the courtroom to the streets. Determined to find the killer and protect the little girl, who has no last name and no other family, Buchanan finds he must depend on skills he never needed in the employ of a civil law firm.
\nThe trail leads Buchanan through the sordid underbelly of the city and to the mansions and yachts of the rich and famous. No one is anxious to talk.
\nBut somebody wants Buchanan to shut up. For good.
\nNow he must use every legal and physical edge he knows to keep himself and the girl alive.
\nOnce again evoking the neo-noir setting of contemporary Los Angeles, Bell delivers another thriller where darkness falls and the suspense never rests.<\/p>\n

If you would like to read chapters 1 & 2, go HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cBell has created in Buchanan an appealing and series-worthy protagonist, and the tale equally balances action and drama, motion and emotion. Readers who pride themselves on figuring out the answers before an author reveals them are in for a surprise, too: Bell is very good at keeping secrets. Fans of thrillers with lawyers as their central characters\u2014Lescroart and Margolin, especially\u2014will welcome this new addition to their must-read lists.\u201d
\n\u2014Booklist<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cEngaging whodunit series kickoff . . . Readers will enjoy Bell’s talent for description and character development.\u201d
\n\u2014Publishers Weekly<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cJames Scott Bell has written himself into a niche that traditionally has been reserved for the likes of Raymond Chandler.\u201d
\n\u2014Los Angeles Times<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cA master of suspense.\u201d
\n\u2014Library Journal<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cOne of the best writers out there, bar none.\u201d
\n\u2014In the Library Review<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

MY REVIEW:<\/h3>\n

My participation in CFBA’s tour of Try Dying<\/a> was my introduction to the writing of James Scott Bell. I enjoyed it so much that I purchased more of his books and Bell became another of my favorite authors. I was excited to find that Try Darkness<\/a>, the next book in the Ty Buchanan series was on the CFBA July list. I was not disappointed.<\/p>\n

In Try Darkness<\/a> former hot-shot corporate attorney Ty Buchanan has started a private practice. Because of events that took place in Try Dying<\/a>, he has become disenchanted with corporate law and is sympathetic to the underdog, taking many cases without payment. When a new client is found dead, Ty takes it upon himself to find her killer and protect her daughter. <\/a><\/p>\n

Try Darkness<\/a> is filled with mystery, suspense, dramatic courtroom scenes, danger, and surprises. Bell’s characters are well developed with believable human strengths and flaws with which the reader can identify. I would consider this series to be in the same genre with the writings of James Gresham; however I find Bell’s style even more readable and enjoyable.
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