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  • Book Review: “The Enemy Inside” by Steve Martini

    Book Review: “The Enemy Inside” by Steve Martini

    Genre: Legal Thriller (Vintage Martini) – Steve Martini had a Facebook contest to win a free book.  I was one of the winners!  As such, I was sent an ARC of “The Enemy Inside” about a week before it came out on May 12, 2015.  Being a slow reader, I just finished it yesterday. –…

  • May 2015 Thrillers

    May 2015 Thrillers

    A bunch of new books for your Spring time reading pleasure. Enjoy! Ruins of War by John A. Connell The Invention of Fire by Bruce Holsinger The Tapestry by Nancy Bilyeau Stone Cold Dead by James W. Ziskin See Also Murder by Larry D. Sweazy The Shadow Cartel by Layton Green The Russian Bride by…

  • Book Review: “The Law of Second Chances” by James Sheehan

    Book Review: “The Law of Second Chances” by James Sheehan

    Genre: Legal Thriller  (Exciting Courtroom Drama, Sad) – “The Law of Second Chances” is book #2 in the Jack Tobin series. Jack ‘Johnny’ Tobin is still living in Bass Creek, Florida with his wife, Pat. He is practicing small town law, after leaving his large Miami law firm, representing death-row inmates. In “The Mayor of…

  • Book Review: “The Nightingale” by Kristin Hannah

    Book Review: “The Nightingale” by Kristin Hannah

    Genre: Historical fiction Buy it! (Brilliant, Brutal, Beautiful) – “The Nighingale” is a classic: A brilliantly written book that describes the lives of two sisters during the Nazis occupation of France. Vianne and Isabelle Mauric couldn’t be more different in temperament and how they chose to confront conflict yet both ended up hero’s in their…

  • Book Review: “Q is for Quarry” by Sue Grafton

    Book Review: “Q is for Quarry” by Sue Grafton

    (Cold Case Unsolved Murder) – In 1969, a girl was found murdered in a quarry near Lompoc, CA.  That girl was never identified and the killer never found. It is now 1987 and Kinsey has just had a meeting with her old friend Lt. Dolan who is on medical leave from the Santa Teresa Police…

  • April 2015 Thrillers

    April 2015 Thrillers

    A bunch of new books arrive this month. Happy Reading.  🙂 The Patriot Threat by Steve Berry City of Blood by Frederique Molay The Stranger by Harlan Coben Blessed Are Those Who Weep by Kristi Belcamino Snatched from Home by Graham Smith Breaking Creed by Alex Kava Everything Burns by Vincent Zandri Black Scorpion by…

  • Book Review: “King and Maxwell” by David Baldacci

    Book Review: “King and Maxwell” by David Baldacci

    Genre: Thriller  (Michelle finally gets Presidential Duty) Sam Wingo is a special operations soldier on a mission to deliver valuable cargo in Afganistan.  He has orders that the payload is not to be taken, even if it means taking his own life (there is a bomb on the truck with a dead man’s switch: He…

  • Book Review: “City of Ghosts” by Kelli Stanley

    Book Review: “City of Ghosts” by Kelli Stanley

    Genre:  Mystery (Miranda Corbie returns) Tracy, CA, July 1940 Sitting at my typewriter on a stifling hot evening.  The air in my office smells like Chesterfields and Bourbon…..the good kind. San Francisco Private Investigator, Miranda Corbie has just left. She needed a friend.  I was that friend. Here is what I know. And what I…

  • Book Review: “Sycamore Row” by John Grisham

    Book Review: “Sycamore Row” by John Grisham

    Genre:  Legal Thriller (After 25 years, Jake Brigance returns) “A Time to Kill” was John Grisham’s first book.  But it was a less than a stellar introduction and did not become a hit until after “The Firm”, “The Pelican Brief”, “The Client”….etc. became huge. A movie was made based on “A Time to Kill”, which…

  • March 2015 Thrillers

    March 2015 Thrillers

    Here is a list of the March 2015 Thrillers that have been released.  Happy Reading!   Inspector of the Dead by David Morrell The Witch of Painted Sorrows by M. J. Rose Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekback Full Tilt by Rick Mofina Past Crimes by Glen Erik Hamilton The Black Widow by Wendy Corsi Staub…