Orlando Ortega-Medina is a London-based US immigration lawyer. Born in the United States to Cuban parents, who themselves were children of immigrants, his family history is one of geographical dislocation extending back several generations. Ortega-Medina himself is an immigrant, having been forced from the United States in 1999 due to an immigration system that denied […]
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Author Q&A With Sylvia Day
What an honor it is for Books Uplift to garner an interview with Sylvia Day, the #1 New York Times, #1 USA Today, and #1 international bestselling author of over twenty award-winning novels, including ten New York Times and thirteen USA Today bestsellers. Her work has been translated into forty-one languages. With over twenty million […]
Last Protector (Clayton White Book 1)
The first book in this series, Last Protector, introduces Clayton White, a secret service agent making the biggest step in his life—he’s proposing to his girlfriend Veronica. But when Veronica’s life is threatened, he becomes entangled in a political and deadly quest for answers and mutual survival. It’s rare that a political and spy thriller starts […]
Noble Man: A Jake Noble Thriller
Ex-CIA agent Jake Noble is still smarting from a critical decision that cost him his job. Doing the right thing resulted in the organization making Noble the fall guy. But he’s resurrected his skills as a mercenary, less to stay in the game and more to expense his dying mother’s medical bills. Living as a […]
The Good Client
This is book one in the Mitch Turner legal thriller series by Dan Decker. I’m amid reading them all because, if you’re like me, you love a good series and a great protagonist. Against his better judgement, defense attorney Mitch Turner agrees to defend his law clerk Timothy Cooper when accused of murdering his estranged […]
Misjudged: A Sam Johnstone Legal Thriller
Don’t you just love it when you find a character that you fall in love with? I know I do. That’s the way I feel about James Chandler’s character Sam Johnstone introduced in Misjudged, the first of this legal thriller series. To date, I’ve read all three—including One and Done and False Evidence—and can’t wait […]
Close To Home
This is the first in the mystery series by L.T. Ryan coupling an unlikely pair of allies. Riley “Bear” Logan is a larger-than-life ex-hitman on the run accompanied by his adopted teen daughter Mandy. When Bear decides to take the rare opportunity to free himself and Mandy from this unforgiving life, he soon realizes that […]
I Swear to Tell
Lately, I’ve been on a legal thriller reading streak, so it’s no surprise I’ve included J.J. Miller on my must-read author list. I Swear to Tell is the first of the series featuring protagonist Candace Elliott, a newly minted lawyer at a prestigious D.C. law firm. She’s proven herself both at law school and as […]
Defending Innocence
New author Peter Kirkland presents a legal thriller set in a sleepy bay town outside of Charleston, South Carolina. Defense attorney Leland Monroe is desperately trying to build a new life for himself and his troubled, teenage son Noah, after losing his wife to addiction and an accident from which Noah struggles to recover. Returning […]
Fearless Pursuit
Book number eight in the FBI Series Off the Grid by Barbara Freethy, this is the story of Special Agent Jax Kenin, tasked with going undercover at an exclusive club, The Russian House, to infiltrate a spy ring that’s been operating for decades. His operation is threatened by a young woman, Maya Ashton, who’s determined […]