Winner’s Curse: “Fast-paced and dramatic, Starks’s novel offers a slew of fascinating characters . . . effectively weaving in her own experience in the global energy sector to build a sharp plot that’s bolstered by obvious insider knowledge.”

Winner’s Curse: “Starks deftly pulls from her insider expertise of the oil and gas sector to inject real life into this thriller  . . . The industry in-fighting and power plays against each other are tense and dramatic.”

The notion of a “winner’s curse” is explained on the first page of L.A. Starks’ engaging new novel, the fourth Lynn Dayton thriller. It stems from the fact that drilling for oil was (and may still be) a real crap shoot with high overhead and little promise of financial return. It also serve as a metaphor for the many interesting complications in the novel . . .It’s a well wrought thriller with an unusual cast of characters and story line.