James R. Vance's Blog (4)

Genre: Fiction / Suspense / Thriller Title: The Courier AUTHOR: James R. Vance Detective Inspector Massey and Detective Sergeant Turner are long-time friends and partners. They’ve seen a lot in their careers and need all of their combined experience to unravel the strange coincidences stemming up from a seemingly simple incident. What starts off as a case of someone mistakenly grabbing the wrong briefcase quickly becomes the catalyst to a large and entwined web of subterfuge. Time… Continue

KILLER BUTTERFLY Genre: Fiction / Suspense / Thriller Title: Killer Butterfly AUTHOR: James R. Vance Petra’s life is as challenging as any other fifteen-year-old with a dysfunctional family, but the choices she makes as she moves through life cross the lines of acceptable, reasonable, and sane. Petra Rebovka feels entitled to get whatever she wants whenever she wants it. The rebellious streak she develops in order to gain attention as the middle child of three, increases i… Continue

Limoges International Airport, France. Saturday, May 16th 2009 James R. Vance will be signing copies of his latest novels, The Courier and Killer Butterfly. Le Dorat, Haute Vienne, France. Monday, May 18th 2009 James R. Vance will be addressing members of Basse Marche Book Club and signing copies of both mystery novels.

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BIRDS NO LONGER SING Some years ago I watched a series on television entitled “The World at War”. One particular episode stayed with me. The opening sequence was an aerial view of a village in France which had been destroyed on the 10th June 1944 by the S.S. “Der Fuhrer” regiment, a part of the 2nd Panzer division known as “Das Reich”. The town had been surrounded; the inhabitants and visitors (642 men, women and children) on that fateful day were rounded up and brutally massacred. The b… Continue