New Crime Thriller Blink Factor by Steve Barry Combines Science and Mystery

New Crime Thriller Blink Factor by Steve Barry Combines Science and Mystery

Austin, Texas, 02 Sept, 2021 – Plain View Press announces the new release of Blink Factor, a crime thriller by Steve Barry, to bookstores and Amazon on September 2, 2021.

With two identities, artist David Asher can forever capture what he sees in the blink of an eye. As he tries to solve the mystery of his abusive father, his father hunts him down, and he faces the looming threat of the Manhattan Crime Boss and the wrath of inquisitive FBI and CIA operatives.

Born in Manhattan, Steve Barry studied painting at Boston University, the Boston Museum School and the Art Students League of New York. He left an early career in advertising on Madison Avenue for the Southwest and worked as Creative Director for the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper Gaining recognition as a painter, he taught art at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe before moving to Texas with his wife. Always attracted to the creative process, Blink Factor is his first novel.

Copies of Blink Factor (ISBN: 978-1632100917) can be purchased on Amazon or in quantity from Plain View Press.

Deadly Discrimination by Albert Noyer Continues Saga of Fr. Jake

Deadly Discrimination by Albert Noyer Continues Saga of Fr. Jake

Austin, Texas, 07 July, 2021 – Plain View Press announces the release of Deadly Discrimination, a Fr. Jake Mystery by Albert Noyer, hitting bookstores and Amazon on July 7, 2021.

When the local store in Providencia, New Mexico is sold to a Muslim, Fr. Jake encourages tolerance but a white supremacist attempts to blow it up by crashing into the gas pump. The Archbishop later visits and tells Fr. Jake he is wanted back in Michigan at his old parish, setting things in turmoil. Complete with maps and historical references, this is the third book in the Fr. Jake Mystery series.

A Swiss-born artist and writer, Albert Noyer was raised in Detroit, Michigan. After the Army and degrees in art, art education, and teaching humanities, he worked as a commercial artist and taught art in public schools and art history at a private college. Noyer retired to New Mexico with his wife, Jennifer, where he exhibits watercolor paintings and woodcut prints in galleries and regional exhibits. Also a writer, his contemporary Fr. Jake Mysteries, The Ghosts of Glorieta; One for the Money, Two for the Sluice; and Deadly Discrimination are published by Plain View Press, along with the two volume Alberix the Celt, a historical retelling of Julius Caesar’s conquest of Gaul from the viewpoint of a Celtic youth caught up in the Romanization of the country now called France. Noyer also published the A.D. fifth century novels, the Getorius and Arcadia mysteries, set in an era critical in creating the political, religious, and cultural institutions that survive into modern times. Copies of Deadly Discrimination (ISBN: 978-1632100931) can be purchased on Amazon or in quantity from Plain View Press.