Book One in The Ainsworth Chronicles: THE JOINING.
Here's my elevator
pitch.
Slam Ghost Busters into a large cooking pot, use a classy
hotel as the base, toss in a female Mickey Spillane and a female Edgar Cayce,
stir in a herbal mix of the mob, add a pinch of abduction, season generously
with ghosts and top with a sprig of TinkerBell when cooked.
https://books2read.com/The-Joining
My Newest Reviews:
I hate You! My wife who is off on medical leave, won't get
out of the bathroom. Can't put your book down. LOL. Bruce W.
I talked to Frank at work
and bought four of his novels, all right up my alley, urban Fantasy and
Paranormal thrillers. But as we were leaving my girlfriend opened up the copy
of The Joining, I had purchased and said, "Stop! You gotta go back I have
to buy this book." Frank had hooked her in the first three pages. Well
Done. Joyce Nicholls
Shuttered Seduction
He only wanted to steal her company. She only wanted Not to
fall in love with him. Both had dark secrets they didn't want revealed.
All Roy wanted to do was seduce Julia-Rae and convince her
to sell him her company. Julia-Rae wanted to shut him out of her heart like
every other man that got close. Only what do you do when you fall in madly in
love with the enemy and the enemy with you. Will the dark secrets they hold
tear you apart?
Review, Janet Lane Walters...Great romance. Spicy with both
hero and heroine fighting the attraction. She's an independent woman who loves
being in charge of her own magazine and running things the way she wants. He
wants to gain her magazine for the group of travel ones he heads. From their
first meeting in Peru sparks fly between them.
https://books2read.com/Shuttered-Seduction
The Stillwaters Run Deep Series.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CH6QFBN
Book One: Raven's Lament
What if a native legend came back to life and was saddened
by the destruction of his people, their culture and their environment?
What if that legend was the Haida creator god Raven and he
spirited away the girl you were falling in love with?
What if you didn’t believe in native spiritualism and found
yourself battling Raven with only a shaman to help you?
Inspired by true events that took place on the Queen
Charlotte Islands, Raven's Lament centers on a journalist who investigates a
killing tied into the destruction of old-growth forest and becomes tangled up
in a spirit war. He finds love and meaning as he encounters a centuries-old
Haida prince, formerly imprisoned along with Raven in a rare Golden Spruce
tree.
REVIEWS:
"After being stranded twenty kilometers from the
nearest road at the tip of Rose Spit, Haida Gwaii, and having to push his
spanking new SUV a few kilometers along the beach before the tide came in and
we ran out of booze, my first reaction on being asked to write a back cover
blurb was, “over my dead body." Some people will do anything to get an
endorsement.”
Susan Musgrave
Book Two: Vancouver's Spirits
Vancouver’s mayor is brutally slain in Stanley Park. His
family is missing, no clues. So begins Carol’s first big detective case. Toss in a hot male reporter. Vengeful bikers,
a sexually starved succubus, a boatload of out of sync demi-gods and a
disappearing shaman who holds all the clues. Oh, it’s going to be a fun night
in the park.
If Charles de Lint's
Greenmantle or Moonheart grabs you, you'll not be able to put down Frank
Talaber's Vancouver's Spirits.
Review By Robert
Winslow. A refreshing change from the
usual and all too familiar cast of deities and spirits. Talaber pulls his
characters from the vast and untapped riches of aboriginal myth and legend,
bringing to life their intricate stories largely unfamiliar to wider audiences.
He intertwines their ancient tales with the dark, gritty and dangerous under
belly of contemporary urban life. The whole makes for an interesting and
compelling read with an ending that's impossible to predict.
https://books2read.com/Vancouvers-Spirits
Book Three in the Stillwaters Run Deep Series: Thunderbird's Wake
Its Ghostbusters teamed up with a female Mickey Spillane who has a Native Shaman sidekick nuttier
than a squirrels winter stash as a side kick.
Agatha Christie, roll over in your grave, new sleuths on the prowl. Haida shaman Charlie Stillwaters
convinces Carol Ainsworth, a Vancouver detective, to join him as he breaks his way into a high
security prison.
The duo are determined to find out who killed the previous native elder before all lightning and
thunder breaks loose. They encounter deranged inmates, mystical beings, ancient serpents, wood
sprites and someone who should have been dead long ago.
Not your usual crime/mystery!
Not your usual criminal investigators!
You thought Jack Nicholson was mad in The Shining…
Wait until you meet Charlie Stillwaters in the Sweat lodge.
Reviews
There are many aspects true to First Nation’s beliefs. For example the transformation of animals
and anomalies within our realm. Frank Talaber’s writing is clear and concise, leaving no grey
areas. But his true talent as a writer is not only a sense of time, history and capturing First Nation’s
humor, but going from the real to the surreal and the supernatural. A gift he plies very well.
Tom Patterson
Nuu-Cha-Nulth Artist and Master Carver
Just when I was beginning to wonder where the next great Canadian story teller would emerge from
, Frank Talaber has written a modern crime mystery with a twist. In “Thunderbird’s Wake” Talaber
weaves the richness of Canada’s west coast aboriginal spirituality into the science of modern forensics.
CSI comes to Haida Gwaii as the shaman and the detective conduct an investigation that will take
them and the reader on a journey to a place where murder, redemption and ancient mysticism intersect.
Michael G de Jong, QC
Minister of Finance, Government House Leader,
Province of British Columbia
https://books2read.com/Thunderbirds-Wake
