Category: Thriller
Angelhunting by Ji Hong Sayo is the first book in the new Seamus Caron Mystery series. Seamus is a private detective in Toronto where he primarily works on finding wandering husbands and lost money though he occasionally consults with his best friend, Sandra Blair, who is a homicide detective with the Toronto Police department. When…
The Runaway Jury is a legal thriller by noted author John Grisham. It takes place in Biloxi, Mississippi where a widow, backed by a rather powerful cadre of lawyers, has recently filed suit against a tobacco company claiming their cigarettes killed her husband by giving him lung cancer. While not necessarily an unusual lawsuit there…
We The People by Russell Razzaque and T. J. MacGregor is a book about democracy and patriotism and doing the right thing. Luna Ochoa is a former government analyst who was fired when the new president took office. Now she works for Leo Montoya who is a reclusive billionaire who funds AI development and seems…
This Girl’s A Killer by Emma C. Wells was a rather humorous tale of a female serial killer. Cecilia is a young woman trying to make her way in the world as a pharmaceutical salesman and also as a killer. She doesn’t like the term serial killer as she doesn’t kill indiscriminately and only kills…
Fatal Voyage is the fourth Temperance Brennan novel by Kathy Reichs. This one starts a bit differently with Brennan getting pulled in to help when a plane crashes in remote woods of the region she works in. One of the first on the scene she rapidly connects with the local sheriff and starts cataloguing the…
A Solitude of Wolverines is the first book in the Alex Carter series by Alice Henderson. When the book opens Alex Carter is a wildlife biologist living in Boston preparing for a speech about a study on an endangered bird species. The event and thus her speech are interrupted when a shooter decides to take…
The Cabinet of Curiosities by Preston and Child is part of the Agent Pendergast series. This book focuses on his investigation into a place known as a Cabinet of Curiosities. When a group of bodies is found at a construction site from a series of murders that took place over a hundred years ago Agent…
The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson is the first book in his Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner series. It opens with Ted, a young, well-off and recently married man from Boston who has recently discovered that his wife may be cheating on him with the contractor building their new house. On a plane ride back from…
How to Survive a Horror Story by Mallory Arnold is a pretty great horror story. The story opens with a group of authors being invited to a will reading for Mortimer Queen, a legendary horror author and acquaintance to each of them. However, in order to attend the reading the seven authors must spend the…