Kelvin L. Reed grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin along with his five brothers. He holds a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Kelvin spent most of his professional life as an educator in the role of teacher, college dean and school counselor before leaving the profession to write full time. His first novel, Rookie Year: Journey of a First-Year Teacher, about a teacher fresh out of college, was published in 1999. Kelvin's fourth novel, Guilt by Association, a legal drama about a Black lawyer who defends a White supremacist who planted a bomb that killed a 12-year-old Black girl, has been download over 55,000 times. Eris, Demon Lover is Kelvin's seventh novel.
Kelvin resides in Las Vegas with his wife. When he's not writing he enjoys reading, taking walks and watching reality crime shows.
Black Friday (2024) by James Kaine is a violent novel about various characters in financial dire straits who agree to participate in a competition for five million dollars. Unknown to them, the event, which takes place in an abandoned shopping mall, is an everyone-together, kill-or-be-killed, pay-for-view spectacle. We're introduced to several of the fifty combatants. Once the carnage starts, alliances are formed and broken as greed and fear affect the combatants. Not for the faint of heart, but quite entertaining. Solidly recommended. April 3, 2025
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Appetite for Innocence (2017, 2020) by Lucinda Berry is an absorbing, dark novel told from the perspectives of two teenage girls kidnapped separately by a serial rapist who's been victimizing girls for years. One girl is determined to escape. The other has embraced her role as head jailer. The story, told before and after the girls are freed, moves along briskly. Narrators Taylor Meskimen and Em Eldridge are marvelous. Highly recommended. April 4, 2025
