Category: Thriller
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Time to drop back in with Dr. Temperance Brennan with Bare Bones, book six of the Temperance Brennan series by Kathy Reichs. Brennan is working out of Charlotte when she receives a call to investigate the body of an infant that has been burned inside a stove. Since she knows the baby’s maternal grandfather she…
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If you want an edge of your seat science thriller then you seriously need to try Whiteout by Ken Follett. When a canister of a potentially deadly virus turns up missing from Oxenford Medical days before Christmas, the head of security Toni Gallo does everything she can to find out what happened. Discovering a lab…
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The Defector by Chris Hadfield returns us to the world of The Apollo Murders with Kaz Zemeckis. About eight months after the rather dangerous events surrounding the Apollo 18 launch, Kaz and Laura are on vacation visiting his extended family in Israel. While on the beach there one day he sees something rather interesting, what…
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Triple by Ken Follett is another one of his rather incredible thrillers. It tells the story of how Nat Dickstein, a rather important member of Mossad, is attempting to find a way to acquire the materials for Israel to build its own atomic bombs, preferably before their neighbor Egypt manages to do so. To do…
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A talent for Murder by Peter Swanson is the third book in his Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner series. It starts with Martha, a newly married librarian who is starting to become suspicious of her husband. She had married Alan Ratliff after a somewhat whirlwind romance and long solo life where she had thought she would always…
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Ken Follett dives into the turbulent world stage of 1914 with The Man From St. Petersburg. Walden is a lord and peer of the realm in the British Empire and as such a stalwart defender of that empire who is willing to do whatever it takes to support if the potential war actually starts. When…
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This book is one that I have read before but not for several years and I felt like circling back around to it for some reason. The Testament is by John Grisham and it tells the story of the last will and testament of Troy Phelan. He is an older gentleman who is a multibillionaire…
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Tipping the Scale by Sami Wehbe is a novel about protesting corruption. Adel Safadi is a young man from a former soviet republic now called Berovia. Having left the country to pursue a career as an international lawyer he is asked to return to prosecute a case of corruption due to his impeccable reputation of…
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The Hollow Place by Rick Mofina is the second book in his Ray Wyatt trilogy. Samantha is a young woman who has just recently lost her mother to cancer. To honor her mother and her heritage she is moving to Canada where her mother is from to go medical school. While on the trip moving…
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We return to Temperance Brennan with book five, Grave Secrets, by Kathy Reichs. This time around we see Temperance Brennan in Guatemala as she works on finding and identifying the remains of people killed during the civil war a few decades prior. After an attack that led to several colleagues being heavily injured and in…