A Detective Al Warner Novel
Warner series, Book 6
Suspense / Thriller
Date Published: 11-11-2021
Publisher: GnD Publishing LLC
Detective Al Warner’s investigation of a street hooker’s death leads to a case of human sex-trafficking. Nicki, an undercover cop, is snatched while carrying a concealed tracking device, but it’s stripped from her before she can activate it. Warner is stymied as she struggles to send the locating beacon.
Meanwhile, an young woman, Maggie, is offered a lucrative deal as a birth surrogate for a secretive, wealthy couple. While living nine months in luxurious seclusion, she learns her fetus is a tool of extortion, and fears for her life. Al Warner is struggling to solve two cases at once. It all comes together in a violent conclusion, with Warner once again thrust into deadly peril.
Interview
What is the hardest part of writing
your books?
What songs are most played on your
Ipod?
Don’t have one, and wouldn’t like the
distraction. My music preferences are classical, however, even as a teenager. I
especially love all things Rimski-Korsakov, and listen to discs while driving.
Do you have critique partners or beta
readers?
I have a critique group of two other
published authors. We usually send in advance 15-18 pages for editing and
comments and meet once a month over lunch, and we are brutally frank with each
other. No point in a group like this if they won’t pick your work apart.
What book are you reading now?
General something Dean Koontz. He’s
been sort of my unknowing guru over the years in how to become a wordsmith.
How did you start your writing career?
Retired young and needed something challenging
to do. I didn’t want to spend my later years playing golf or cards, and I’d
always loved writing. I began attending writers’ conferences and seminars where
I learned there was a lot more to writing great fiction than just typing out a
manuscript. The conferences have classes on everything a writer needs to
succeed in this business.
Tell us about your next release.
I just release Taken as the 6th
of my Detective Al Warner novels, and also release the audio book for Born
to Die, the 2nd in the Warner series. Both have received mostly
5-Star and 4-Stra reviews. I’m currently working on the next Warner novel, tentatively
titled Cold Vengeance, which should be available the fall.
About the Author
George A. Bernstein, now living in south Florida, is the retired President of a modest, publicly held appliance manufacturer. He spent years attending writing seminars and conferences, learning to polish his work and developing a strong “voice.” George is acclaimed by his peers as a superb wordsmith and a crafter of surprise endings no one expects. He works with professional editors to ensure his novels meet his own rigorous standards, and all of his books are currently published by small indie press, GnD Publishing LLC, in which he has an interest.
Taken is the sixth of his Detective Al Warner Suspense series, with the first five; Death’s Angel; Born to Die; The Prom Dress Killer; White Death; and Sniper, all garnering rave reviews. His Detective Al Warner has attracted many fans, with readers likening Warner to James Patterson’s Alex Cross. Four of his novels are also now available in Audible.
Bernstein’s first novel, Trapped, was a winner in a small Indie publisher’s “Next Great American Novel” contest, and received high praise, gaining many mostly 5-star reviews, reaching “Top 100” status. His second novel, A 3rd Time to Die (A paranormal Romantic Suspense) has also garnered mostly 5-Star & 4-Star reviews, with one reader likening him to the best, less “spooky” works of Dean Koontz & Stephen King.
Bernstein is also a “World-class” fly-fisherman, setting a baker’s dozen IGFA World Records, mostly on fly-rods. He’s written the popular Toothy Critters Love Flies, the complete book on fly-fishing for pike & musky.
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