Author: Mike Pihlman

  • Book Review: “Disclosure” by Michael Crichton

    Book Review: “Disclosure” by Michael Crichton

    Genre: Thriller (Fascinating) – Buy it! – Tom Sanders has been with DigiCom since the beginning. He is happily married with two kids, a nice house, and a great commute via ferry to work. Life is good. In the past 12 years, Tom has risen to become the Division leader of the Digital Communications Division…

  • Book Review: “R is for Ricochet” by Sue Grafton

    Book Review: “R is for Ricochet” by Sue Grafton

    Genre: Mystery (Kinsey Babysits a Felon) — Buy it! — Kinsey Millhone is a PI out of the fictional town of Santa Teresa, CA (think Santa Barbara).  An ex-cop, 37 years old (this is 1987) married twice and divorced twice, she lives in a garage apartment owned by her 87 year old landlord, Henry. Nord…

  • Book Review: “The Cottoncrest Curse” by Michael H. Rubin

    Book Review: “The Cottoncrest Curse” by Michael H. Rubin

    Genre: Mystery (Excellent Murder Mystery) – Buy it! – Today: Cottoncrest Plantation, Louisiana An old man and his teenage grand-daughter arrived, with a busload of tourists, at the Cottoncrest plantation for a tour. Instead of taking the morning tour, the old man sits outside with his grand-daughter  and tells her a story about her great-great-grandfather,…

  • April 2016 Thrillers

    April 2016 Thrillers

    No April fools here…..real new books!  I think….haha – Poisonous by Allison Brennan (Buy it!) The Advocate’s Daughter by Anthony Franze No One Knows by J.T. Ellison Far From True by Linwood Barclay Down The Darkest Street by Alex Segura Beachhead by Jeffery Hess The Lord of Ireland by E.M. Powell Hanging Mary by Susan…

  • Book Review: “Shots Fired” by C.J. Box

    Book Review: “Shots Fired” by C.J. Box

    (Short Stories) Genre: Thriller / Mystery – Buy it! – “Shots Fired” is a selection of 10 widely varied short stories. It was interesting reading this book as I read one story and then I was done. Then I read another….done again. I loved them; short sweet and sometimes bittersweet. Below is a a very…

  • Book Review: “The Guilty” by David Baldacci

    Book Review: “The Guilty” by David Baldacci

    (Robie Goes Home) Genre: Thriller – Buy it! – Will Robie, assassin, has his shot lined up. He patiently waits for the person to come into view, and when he does, Robie fires his long range sniper rifle. At that instant, the daughter of the man that is being shot walks behind him and also…

  • Book Review: “The God’s Eye View” by Barry Eisler

    Book Review: “The God’s Eye View” by Barry Eisler

    (Information is Power) Genre: Thriller – Buy it! – “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” Lord Acton In this day & age: Information is Power. Evie Gallagher works at the NSA. She is a devoted single mother to a deaf child and a computer science graduate. At her NSA job, Evie developed…

  • Book Review: “Kill Shot” by Vince Flynn

    Book Review: “Kill Shot” by Vince Flynn

    Genre: Thriller (Mitch Rapp Prequel #2) – BUY it! – “Kill Shot” picks up one year after the events in “American Assassin”. Mitch Rapp is a promising young assassin working for a secret organization attached to the CIA. His bosses, Thomas Stansfield and Irene Kennedy, have given Rapp a list of Pan Am Lockerbie Flight…

  • March 2016 Thrillers

    March 2016 Thrillers

    Lots of new Thrillers!  Enjoy… — The Steel Kiss by Jeffery Deaver (BUY) Overwatch by Matthew Betley Clawback by J.A. Jance The Saints of the Lost and Found by T.M. Causey Gone Again by James Grippando Back Blast by Mark Greaney Speakers of the Dead by J. Aaron Sanders Pegasus Down by Philip Donlay Starrie…

  • Book Review: “The 5th Wave” by Rick Yancey

    Book Review: “The 5th Wave” by Rick Yancey

    Genre: Young Adult Fantasy (Aliens take over the World) – Buy! – Aliens invade. The alien mothership hovers in space until it decides to attack. But it does so slowly and methodically. The 1st Wave: Lights Out: A massive Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) takes out all electronics crashing planes and trains and automobiles while killing hundreds…