Book Reviews: Silent Mercy by Linda Fairstein, Live Wire by Harlan Coben, Rizzo’s Fire by Lou Manfredo, Afraid of the Dark by James Grippando, and Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
Silent Mercy Linda Fairstein Dutton, March 2011 ISBN: 978-0-525-95202-2 Hardcover This deeply researched series highlighting New York landmarks featuring Alexandra Cooper and Mike Chapman takes the reader in a somewhat different direction from previous entries. Ā This time the author tackles religion, albeit in a non-controversial manner. While New York continues to be the prime real [...]
February 19, 2012
Tags: Brooklyn, CIA, criminal defense attorney, Dutton, family issues, FBI, Guantanamo, Harper, Leeds, legal thriller, Little Brown, Miami, Minotaur Books, mystery, New York City, police procedural, private investigator, private security, public prosecutor, religion, serial killer Posted in: Full Reviews 
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Book Reviews: Vanish by Tess Gerritsen and Vanish In Plain Sight by Marta Perry
Vanish Tess Gerritsen Ballantine Books, 2006 ISBN 0345476980 Mass Market Paperback Medical Examiner Dr. Maura Isles receives a big shock when the Jane Doe in her morgue suddenly opens her eyes.Ā Jane Doe is rushed to the hospital but before her identity can be discovered, she shoots a security guard and seizes hostages. One of [...]
January 21, 2012
Tags: Amish, Ballantine Books, book illustrator, Boston, FBI, Harlequin Books, hostage, medical examiner, mystery, Pennsylvania, police procedural, romantic suspense Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review Trio by Patricia E. Reid
The Ridge Michael Koryta Little, Brown and Company, June 2011 ISBN No. 978-0316053662 Hardcover Chief Deputy Kevin Kimble is making an early morning drive when he receives a very strange and disturbing phone call. The call is from Wyatt French one of the stranger residents of Kimbleās county.Ā Wyatt lives on a hilltop known as [...]
January 7, 2012
Tags: big cat sanctuary, Connecticut, crime reporter, FBI, journalist, Kentucky, Little Brown and Company, Mira, mystery, Poisoned Pen Press, police procedural, racecar driver, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Reviews: Scared to Death by Wendy Corsi Staub, The Nomination by William G. Tapply and Agent X by Noah Boyd
Scared to Death Wendy Corsi Staub Avon, January 2011 ISBN: 978-0-06-18950-7-4 Mass Market Paperback The first murder in Wendy Corsi Staubās newest thriller occurs on page 7, and the suspense hardly lets up from that point on. Marin Quinn gave up her newborn son at the insistence of her husband, Garvey Quinn. Ā Elsa Cavalon adopted [...]
December 17, 2011
Tags: Avon, Boston, FBI, Manhattan, missing child, mystery, political suspense, private detective, Skyhorse Publishing, Supreme Court, suspense, treason, William Morrow Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Reviews: Cold Vengeance by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child and Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
Cold Vengeance (Special Agent Pendergast) Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child Grand Central Publishing, August 2011 ISBN No. 978-0-446-55498-5 Hardcover Pendergast has discovered that Helen, his wife, was murdered and now he seeks revenge.Ā Judson Esterhazy, Helenās brother, is equally determined that Pendergast be stopped from investigating Helenās death and if the only way to stop [...]
October 24, 2011
Tags: adoption, England, FBI, Grand Central Publishing, Little Brown and Company, Louisiana, mystery, New York, private investigator, Scotland, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Reviews: The Accident by Linwood Barclay and The Bride Collector by Ted Dekker
The Accident Linwood Barclay Bantam Books, August 2011 ISBN No. 978-0553807189 Hardcover Glen and Sheila Garber have been facing what so many other couples across the country are facing.Ā The economy isnāt any better in Connecticut where they have their home than any other location in the United States.Ā Glen is a contractor and owns [...]
October 20, 2011
Tags: Bantam Books, Center Street, Connecticut, Denver, FBI, forensic psychologist, mystery, serial killer, suburban crime, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Reviews–And Now It’s Gloria Feit’s Turn
So Cold the River Michael Koryta Back Bay Books, 2011 ISBN: 9780316053648 Trade Paperback Michael Koryta‘s latest novel* starts out innocently enough. Ā Eric Shaw, in his recent former life an LA cinematographer before that career crashed and burned and now in his early thirties, has for the past two years lived in Chicago, trying to [...]
July 14, 2011
Tags: arson, Atlantic Monthly Press, Back Bay Books, Chicago, child abduction, cultural animosity, England, FBI, Forge, historical elements, Indiana, investigative reporter, Los Angeles, Minotaur Books, mystery, police procedural, prostitution, Quebec, Rhode Island, Russian mob, San Francisco, serial crimes, supernatural, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews One Comment
Book Reviews: Gloria Feit X 3
Trick of the Dark Val McDermid Little, Brown, 2010 ISBN 978-1-4087-0201-7 Hardcover [This book is presently available only in/through the UK and Canada, not available in the US at this time] As the book opens, Dr. Charlotte [āCharlieā] Flint finds her professional life as a forensic psychiatrist in tatters, her reputation destroyed, and awaiting a [...]
March 23, 2011
Tags: Atlantic Monthly Press, British, FBI, Little Brown (UK), Mira Books, mystery, occult, Oxford, police procedural, serial killer, South Africa, standalone, suspense, Tennessee Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: The Bone Chamber by Robin Burcell
The Bone Chamber Robin Burcell Poisoned Pen Press, 2009 ISBN 9781590583753 Hardcover Feisty independent-minded FBI forensic artist Sydney Fitzpatrick is off again. Ā This time she bouncing between Washington, DC, San Francisco and various Italian locations. Ā All the while she and her cohorts dodge international hit men. Burcell is a good writer and her varied law [...]
December 9, 2010
Tags: espionage, FBI, forensic artist, mystery, Naples, Poisoned Pen Press, Rome, terrorism, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
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