
This is a really good mystery/thriller that is full of action and plenty of twists. It’s a quick and easy read and I really enjoyed it.
Continue reading “Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay”This is a really good mystery/thriller that is full of action and plenty of twists. It’s a quick and easy read and I really enjoyed it.
Continue reading “Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay”This is a pretty good YA Mystery/Thriller about a young woman’s search for a sister who joined a group that may or may not be a cult.
Continue reading “The Project by Courtney Summers”This is another great mystery/thriller by John Hart. I always look forward to his books because they are so well written, and the stories are so original, that it’s an immense pleasure to read them. This book is set in the South during the Vietnam War and follows one family as they struggle with the invisible wounds of PTSD and the growing pains of coming of age.
Continue reading “The Unwilling by John Hart”This is a fun, entertaining mystery/romance that I thoroughly enjoyed.
Finlay is a young mother of two getting divorced from her cheating husband. She’s a struggling mystery/romance author who has writer’s block and is in danger of having to return her meager book advance. She’s in debt up to her eyeballs, her husband is fighting her for custody and she can’t catch a break. A last minute change of plans has her meeting her book agent in a Panera restaurant sitting amongst a lunchtime throng. As she discusses the latest plot of her murder mystery, she senses the woman at the table next to her listening in and eyeing her.
Continue reading “Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano”This is a good mystery/thriller that is a quick and easy read. Sam sustained a serious head injury in Afghanistan and is suffering from severe PTSD. He gets a job as a bar back in a club and is trying to deal with his injury and repair his failing marriage. One night Sam shelters his co-worker Melody who was beaten by her boyfriend. When the boyfriend turns up dead the next day, both Sam and Melody are suspects.
Continue reading “Deeper into the Dark (Detective Margaret Nolan #1) by P.J. Tracy”I’m a sucker for a John Grisham novel, and this one delivers everything you expect from one of his books. Once again we visit Jake Brigance, who has been assigned to represent Drew Gamble, a 16 year old boy accused of killing a Sheriff’s deputy. The trial tears the town apart, and Jake and his family are thrust smack in the middle of the controversy.
Continue reading “A Time for Mercy (Jake Brigance #3) by John Grisham”This is a tense and twisty mystery/thriller that involves sexual assault, immigrants, religion, disparities in wealth, the ever-present blood-thirsty media, drug dependency, physical disabilities, and the inequity of the justice system. It sounds like a lot, and it is, but the author does a fantastic job of weaving it together into a well-written, cogent story that you won’t want to put down.
Continue reading “Take It Back by Kia Abdullah – Blog Tour”This is another good book in the Atlee Pine series. There is plenty of action, intrigue and danger. The book is a quick, easy read and a solid mystery.
Continue reading “Daylight (Atlee Pine, #3) by David Baldacci”Ugh. This book was really hard to read and I was so glad when I finished. It’s a depressing mystery/thriller about a dysfunctional family of selfish, narcissistic people. None of the characters had any redeeming qualities.
Continue reading “Little Cruelties by Liz Nugent”