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Book Review: “Sparring Partners” by John Grisham
Genre: Thriller “Sparring Partners” consists of three novellas. Below is a brief introduction to all three….. “Homecoming” The year is 1991 and Clanton, MS lawyer Jake Brigance is helping an old friend return to Clanton after disappearing several years earlier. Jake teams with Harry Rex and…….. “Strawberry Moon” Death row inmate, Cody Wallace, is three…
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Book Review: “Dark Horse” by Gregg Hurwitz
Genre: Thriller This is book 7 of 9 in the Orphan X series. The end is nigh….. 😦 6 months after his apartment in LA was destroyed by artificially intelligent drones, Orphan X / The Nowhere Man (Evan Smoak) is finally getting to the end of the repair. Then…..his RoamZone rings (1-855-2-Nowhere), and he answers…..…
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Book Review: “The Takings” by Sandie Will
Genre: Psychological Thriller 9 year old, Wyatt is riding his bike in the woods as fast as he can so he makes it home before dark. He knows that his dad will be mad if he comes home late again. He might even get the belt this time. Then he crashes. While he is checking…
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Book Review: “Fractured” by Karin Slaughter
Genre: Thriller This is book #2 in the Will Trent series. Abigail Campano just arrived back home, called her husband Paul on her cell phone, and started into the house. But…..something is wrong. Someone is in the house! Heading up the stairs, Abigail comes upon a man, with a knife, stooping over the dead body…
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Book Review: “The 6:20 Man” by David Baldacci
Genre: Thriller Travis Devine is an ex-Army Ranger, current MBA graduate, and is now working as an intern at a large financial firm in mid-town Manhattan: Cowl and Comely. Living in the burbs, Travis boards the 6:20 train every morning (including Saturdays) on his way to a job he is hating more and more everyday.…
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Book Review: “Foreign Agent” by Brad Thor
Genre: Thriller An unprecedented number of deadly attacks on the U.S.A. by ISIS has everyone on edge. A highly trained paramilitary CIA squad from the super secret Special Activities Division in Iraq is attacked by ISIS and totally wiped out. The U.S. Secretary of Defense, Richard Devon, is in the Turkey for high level talks…
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Book Review: “Prodigal Son” by Gregg Hurwitz
Genre: Thriller “Sixty-five motherfucking dollars.” That is all that stood between Andrew Duran and his home, family, and a, hopefully, decent job. Now he is stuck working the midnight shift in an impound lot in a crappy part of town. Barely making child support for his beloved daughter, Sofia, and his wife Brianna. One night,…
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Book Review: “Storm Watch” by C.J. Box
Genre: Thriller This is book #23 in the Joe Pickett series. And yes….I’ve read them all. 🙂 Joe and Marybeth are now “empty nesters”. Sheridan is 24 and is working with Nate Romanowski at Yarak, Inc., she is close to becoming a master falconer. April is interning for a PI in Montana (Cassie Dewell!), and…
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Book Review: “Troubled Blood” by Robert Galbraith
Genre: Thriller / Mystery “Troubled Blood” is the fifth book in the Cormoran Strike series. 40 years ago Dr. Margot Bamborough left her medical office to meet a friend in a local pub when she disappeared……never to be heard from again. 15 year old, Louise Tucker was out one night when she disappeared….never to be…
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Book Review: “Shadows Reel” by C.J. Box
Genre: Thriller By my count……”Shadows Reel” is book #22 in the Joe Pickett series. Yikes! 🙂 In a few days it will be Thanksgiving and the three, now grown, Pickett girls will be home to celebrate. Lucy, the youngest, is now a Sophomore at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. She will also be bringing…
NOW READING: “Zero Sum” by Barry Eisler
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