Genre/Keywords: Fiction, Adventure. Coming of Age, Innocents Abroad, Unlikely Romance, Expatriots
Length: 218 pages
Publisher: JMARBS, Long Island, NY
Release date: March 23, 2025

Book Summary

An innocent trip to retrieve a vintage sports car from a shop in Milan lands young Riley O’Tannen in hot water with the Swiss authorities in this comedy of misadventures and naive assumptions.

Reviews:

 I tend to read several books at once, but the moment I started reading Happy Hour and Other Sorrows, I put everything else aside.

It’s always satisfying to find a book that efficiently conveys its concepts without wasting words. I loved how full the whole world of this book felt, how effortlessly the story flows. Charming and witty, it is delightfully twisty, the mystery completely unique. The characters and dialogues felt so real…JT Twissel has a knack for telling interesting stories, and that’s a fact! I’d read anything she writes. Hope there’s more to come. – Bojana

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Title: Flipka

The sequel to this book is currently being written. When complete, the two books will be combined and published. If you would like a copy of the original, please let me know on the contact page. I have plenty of copies.

Book Summary:
Thirty-four year old Fiona Butters works backstage at a Vegas show creating props nightly for the performers. It’s a life full of magic and wonder that she adores and so when the owner of the casino discovers her past and strong arms her into doing him a favor, she can’t say no.

Praise for Flipka

“Funny, suspenseful, entertaining, erudite (Lamarck!), this book showed me a good time. JT Twissel owns Nevada like Fellini owns Rome.”

“A swell introduction to a new — female — detective series (I hope). Twissel’s Nevada brings Hiaasen’s South Florida to mind, in all the best ways… “

Read more here.

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Title: Willful Avoidance
Genre/Keywords: Women’s Contemporary Fiction, Legal Thriller, Dark humor
Length: 212 pages
Publisher: Booktrope Editions
Release date:  June 2015
ISBN: 978-1-62015-345-1
This book is currently out of print and the author has no desire to revisit it but if you would like a copy, please let me know on the Contact page. I have plenty of copies.

Click here to read A Dummie’s Guide to Innocent Spouse Relief – a satirical poke at the hypocrisy of US Tax Law.

REVIEWS

Book Summary

When the curtain falls, Maya Bethany is left with a conniving ex-husband, a string of temp jobs from hell, and a tax debt she couldn’t pay off in a million years.  Enter a no-nonsense tax attorney who’d rather be rescuing horses.  Fourteen years of tax cases has left him with a hard and cynical shell while she is ready to do battle, confident that they will win.  The title is from a section of the tax code designed to provide relief for taxpayers who were duped and mislead by an ex-spouse.

Praise for Willful Avoidance:

“I truly enjoyed reading “Willful Avoidance”. Knowing it was written from a true experience, I was amazed at the length of time and diligence needed to prove one’s innocence. I loved JT Twissel’s sense of humor and experienced several ‘laugh out loud’ moments throughout the book. Good read!”