Book Reviews: The Border Lords by T. Jefferson Parker, Red Jade by Henry Chang, and Edge by Jeffery Deaver
The Border Lords T. Jefferson Parker Dutton, 2011 ISBN: 978-0-525-95200-8 Hardcover This latest Charlie Hood novel is as confusing as it is well-written and well-researched; the plot (or plots) are at once baffling and intriguing. The story draws the reader along by its sheer force right up to the end. Many of the characters that [...]
August 17, 2011
Tags: drug trade, Dutton, federal protection officer, gun trade, intelligence agency, Mexican-American border, mystery, New York Chinatown, police procedural, Seattle, Simon & Schuster, Soho Crime, Washington DC Posted in: Full Reviews 
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Book Review: Three Stations by Martin Cruz Smith
Three Stations Martin Cruz Smith Simon & Schuster, August 2010 ISBN: 978-0-7432-7674-0 Hardcover Russia, and more specifically Moscow, is Arkady Renko’s home turf where, as a sometime senior investigator for important cases in the prosecutor’s office [when he isn't suspended or dismissed], he somehow manages to solve cases nobody above him wants solved. On the [...]
November 3, 2010
Tags: mystery, police procedural, Russia, Simon & Schuster Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: The Ark by Boyd Morrison
The Ark Boyd Morrison Read by Boyd Gaines Simon & Schuster Audio, May 2010 ISBN 1442305126 Unabridged Audio Book The search for Noah’s Ark has been the goal of archeologists the world over for centuries, even those who consider themselves to be nonbelievers. Now, her father may have been successful, but archeologist Dilara Kenner knows [...]
June 16, 2010
Tags: action adventure, audio, Simon & Schuster, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Savages by Don Winslow
Savages Don Winslow Simon & Schuster, July 13, 2010 ISBN 1439183368 Hardcover (ARC) Every great company has an origin story, and here is Ben and Chonny’s: They’re hanging out at the beach, Chon on extended leave between his two hitches, and they’re playing volleyball on the court next to the Hotel Laguna. Ben and Chon [...]
June 7, 2010
Tags: drug wars, hardboiled, mystery, Simon & Schuster Posted in: Full Reviews One Comment
Book Review: The Disappeared by M. R. Hall
The Disappeared M. R. Hall Simon & Schuster, 2009 ISBN 9781439156988 Hardcover Jenny Cooper is a coroner.  Sounds simple enough, doesn’t it?  She declares people dead.  That gets more complicated when there is no body.  Amira Jamal brings a case to Jenny that starts out complicated and only gets more so.  Seven years ago, her [...]
April 2, 2010
Tags: mystery, Simon & Schuster, suspense, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: UR by Stephen King
UR Stephen King Simon & Schuster Audio, February 2010 ISBN 1442303093 Unabridged Audio Book Read by Holter Graham An English professor named Wesley gets dumped by his girlfriend and is driven by despair to purchase a Kindle although he has never wanted one. Strange things start to happen, beginning with the fact that it arrives [...]
March 15, 2010
Tags: audio book, horror, Simon & Schuster Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews 2 Comments
Book Review: Entombed by Linda Fairstein
Entombed Linda Fairstein Simon & Schuster Audio, 2005 ISBN 0743538455 Abridged Audio Book Read by Blair Brown Manhattan sex crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper and her detective partners, Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, are involved in the case of the Silk Stocking serial rapist. At the same time, workers have uncovered a body entombed behind a [...]
December 28, 2009
Tags: audio book, legal thriller, mystery, police procedural, Simon & Schuster Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews One Comment
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