4 stars for Old Growth, by Matt Hughes

A glowing 4-star review for Old Growth, by Matt Hughes, from a LibraryThing reviewer. Old Growth is the second book in the Sid Rafferty Thriller series. available in print and eBookfrom Five Riversand online booksellers worldwide This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. The language has a straight forward reading style and I finished the book in a couple of hours. My overall impression of the work is that it is quite masculine in feel….

Two recent 4-star reviews for Old Growth

available in print and ebookfrom Five Rivers Publishingand online booksellers worldwide Old Growth, the second novel in the Sid Rafferty Thriller series, by Matt Hughes, recently received the following two, four-star reviews on LibaryThing. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. Sid Rafferty, a writer for hire, lives with his girlfriend in a small town in Vancouver. The many threads of this novel include, but are not limited to, the preservation/cutting of old growth forests, historical…

LibraryThing praise for Old Growth, by Matt Hughes

Two short but sweet reviews from book-lovers on LibraryThing for Matt Hughes’ latest Sid Rafferty Thriller, Old Growth. available in print and eBookfrom Five Riversand booksellers worldwide This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. “Old growth forests are living lessons in the power of vegetative persistence”. Matt Hughes shares his knowledge of Vancouver Island forests, coalmines, small town costal life and the vagaries of being a free-lance writer. The tangents are interesting and the outcome…

Three 5-star reviews for Downshift

available in print, eBook, and audio The first of the Sid Rafferty books, by Matt Hughes, Downshift, has three 5-star reviews on Amazon. 5.0 out of 5 stars Downshift is an uplift for thriller fans, May 16, 2013By Sandor – See all my reviews This review is from: Downshift: A Sid Rafferty Thriller, Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition)A really engaging and entertaining story, narrated with sharp wit, attitude, and erudite authority by Robert Gonzalez. Highly…

Interview with Matt Hughes, author of Old Growth

At the moment Matt Hughes is house-sitting in Montebelluna, near Venice, Italy. He took time from his exhausting writing schedule to have a chat with Five Rivers’ publisher, Lorina Stephens, and talk about his forthcoming new release, Old Growth, the long-awaited sequel to Downshift. LS: In this Rafferty mystery you have him dealing with the more radical side of environmentalism, in this case the old growth crises that arose in the 1990s. What is it about…