Category: Thriller
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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I’ve met a lot of older siblings but I don’t think any of them would go as far as Cyra Griffin did in Serial Killer Support Group by Saratoga Schaefer. When Cyra’s younger sister Mira is killed she is rather desperate to find out who killed her. Mira’s friend Eli who works as a clerk…
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I wasn’t really sure what to make of this next book and to be honest I am still not sure what to make of it. In Don’t Let Me Drown by Andy Siege we explore being a photojournalist in a country being torn apart by civil war as the protagonist Aaron visits Miberia. However, we…
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Reliquary is the second book in the Agent Pendergast series by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. It picks up about eighteen months after the end of the previous book Relic. After some remains with unusual wounds are found by police divers D’Agosta calls in some outside help by convincing Margo Green and Dr. Frock to…
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I have recently read a thriller by a new author, well new to me anyway, that was really good. First Family by David Baldacci is about Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, two former secret service agents who are now private investigators. Sean and Michelle are asked to a meeting with an old friend of Sean’s…
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It is absolutely amazing how many things can change all due to a single decision. The book Echo by Kenneth James Allen explores exactly that. It opens on a young man named Eli who is currently sitting in his apartment looking at the dead body of a cop while holding the gun that killed him…
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A single chance event and the two women it unintentionally brings together. In Before She Finds Me by Heather Chavez we see how exactly Ren and Julia are brought together. Julia is with her daughter, Cora, registering her for college and dropping her off at the dorms when the shooting starts. Due to past experience…