Book Reviews: Messages by Weyman Jones, Angel Lost by F. M. Meredith and Hell To Pay by Wendy Corsi Staub
Messages Weyman Jones Five Star Publishing, 2010 ISBN No. 978-1-59414-879-8 Hardcover Mike Lyons cannot believe that his mother is guilty of murder but a jury says she killed her lover, Alex Reed.Ā He is so convinced that he decides that he will prove her innocence.Ā Mikeās mother owned a company called Power Meetings.Ā Ā Alex worked [...]
November 12, 2011
Tags: Avon Books, California, Caribbean, Dark Oak Mysteries, decoy, Five Star Publishing, mystery, New York, police procedural, stalker, suspense, thriller, voyeur Posted in: Full Reviews 
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Book Reviews: The Leopard by Jo Nesbo, The Girl in the Green Raincoat by Laura Lippman and Queen of the Night by J.A. Jance
The Leopard Jo Nesbo Translated by Don Bartlett Harvill Secker, January 2011 ISBN: 978-1-846-55401-8 Paperback [It should be noted that this book is presently only available in/through the UK & Canada. It will be published in the US in hardcover on 12/13/11 by Knopf Publishing Group.] The latest Harry Hole novel presents the reader with [...]
November 9, 2011
Tags: Arizona, Baltimore, cold case investigators, Harper, Harvill Secker, Knopf Publishing Group, Morrow, mystery, Native American, Norway, novella, police procedural, private investigator, serial killer, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: The Arranger by L.J. Sellers
The Arranger L.J. Sellers Spellbinder Press, August 2011 ISBN 9780983213857 Trade Paperback Step into the world of tomorrow. America is experiencing dark days with 21% unemployment, very high inflation, $8 per gallon gas, millions homeless, extra lax gun laws, shrinking federal government, and people wanting better jobs because of health insurance. Reality television has hit [...]
November 5, 2011
Tags: futuristic, mystery, paramedic, physical competition, Spellbinder Press, standalone, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Passions of the Dead by L.J. Sellers—and a Contest Winner!
Passions of the Dead L.J. Sellers Spellbinder Press, January 2011 ISBN: 978-0-9795182-8-7 Trade Paperback In her latest book in the Detective Jackson series, L.J. Sellers goes beyond the headlines about the economic crisis by showing the human side of that equation, and the myriad unexpected and unforeseeable ripple effects and the desperation stemming from the [...]
October 27, 2011
Tags: mystery, Oregon, police procedural, Spellbinder Press, thriller Posted in: Contests/Giveaways, Full Reviews No Comments
Book Reviews: The Final Reckoning by Sam Bourne, Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane and Reapers by Frederick Ramsay
The Final Reckoning Sam Bourne Harper, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-187574-8 Hardcover Truth and fiction merge in this thriller about survivors of the holocaust taking justice into their own hands, seeking out Nazis and murdering them. Ā It comes to light when the last survivor of DIN, the secret group of Jewish resistance fighters (yes, there were some) [...]
October 26, 2011
Tags: Boston, Botswana, game ranger, Harper, Holocaust, missing child, mystery, Nazi crimes, Poisoned Pen Press, police procedural, private investigator, Russian mob, soccer, thriller, 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 Review: Fifth Victim by Zoe Sharp
Fifth Victim Zoe Sharp Allison & Busby, April 2011 ISBN 978-0-7490-0932-8 Hardcover [This title is presently only available in/through the UK/Canada, not yet available in the US. It will be published in the US by Pegasus Books in January 2012.] Charlie Fox [nee Charlotte Foxcroft] is a ātake no prisonersā kinda gal.Ā Now nearing thirty, [...]
October 10, 2011
Tags: Allison & Busby, bodyguard, kidnapping, Long Island, mystery, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Reviews: Box 21 by Anders Roslund & Borge Hellstrom, Vienna Twilight by Frank Tallis and Death Toll by Jim Kelly
Box 21 Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom Picador, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-312-65534-1 Trade Paperback This is not an easy novel to read, but it is well worth it because it is quite different from the usual crime-cum-thriller novels from Scandinavia. Ā It really is a psychological study of the conflicts facing detectives in their moral and ethical [...]
September 25, 2011
Tags: 1903 Austria, England, historical, Minotaur Books, mob enforcer, mystery, Picador, police procedural, psychological, psychopathologist, Random House, serial killer, sex slavery, Sweden, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Fourth Day by Zoe Sharp
Fourth Day Zoe Sharp Pegasus Books, 2011 ISBN: 978-1-6059-8121-5 Hardcover Fourth Day is the name of a once subversive organization formed in the 1960′s and known for its cult-like origins, but claiming to work wonders especially with vulnerable adolescents [and others] with delinquency and drug addiction problems. Ā It has more recently been headed by one [...]
August 25, 2011
Tags: California, close protection, cults, mystery, Pegasus Books, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
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