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  • “The Swan Thieves” by Elizabeth Kostova

    “The Swan Thieves” by Elizabeth Kostova

    (Captivating Love Stories) Genre:  Fiction – “The Swan Thieves” follows the lives of, essentially, three people. Beatrice de Clerval, an incredibly talented Impressionist artist who lived in the late 1800’s.  Her love affair with an older man (her uncle), Olivier Vignot, and her love of painting are chronicled in a series of letters between Beatrice…

  • Tom Clancy Dies at 66

    We just learned that Tom Clancy has passed away from a short illness at the age of 66.  See this announcement. Mr. Clancy was my introduction to this wonderful genre called THRILLERS. Once I read his first few books, I was hooked.  It was then that I found the likes of Flynn, Baldacci, Grisham, &…

  • October 2013 Thrillers

    October 2013 Thrillers

    Happy October 2013 Reading!  A bunch of new Thrillers await. The October List by Jeffery Deaver Deadline by Sandra Brown The Quest by Nelson DeMille Dark City – a Repairman Jack novel by F. Paul Wilson The Good Sister by Wendy Corsi Staub No Way Out by Alan Jacobson Crimes of Memory by L.J. Sellers Day One by Nate Kenyon The Cure by Douglas…

  • Book Review: “The Innocent” by David Baldacci

      Genre: Thriller (New Series) – Will Robie is an assassin.  He kills when the Gov’t tells him to kill, except this one time. Now Robie is on the run from the very people who hired him.  He needs to find out who sanctioned his demise before he…..well……dies. Along the way Robie meets up with…

  • Book Review: “O is for Outlaw” by Sue Grafton

    Book Review: “O is for Outlaw” by Sue Grafton

      Genre:  Mystery – (Kinsey solves another mystery) – In “O is for Outlaw” Kinsey Millhone’s ex-husband, Mickey, is close to death in an L.A. hospital.  He was shot. Kinsey has not talked to Mickey for some time, but, is curious as to how Mickey got himself in this predicament and spends time looking into…

  • August 2013 Thrillers

    Lots of new books for August 2013 (yes, I know, I am late)! Jon Land (he is the reason I am TracyReaderDad) has a new Strong thriller….yippeee!  You gotta read this series.  AWESOME.  🙂 Strong Rain Falling by Jon Land A Tap on the Window by Linwood Barclay Don’t Look Now by Michelle Gagnon Gated by Amy Christine Parker…

  • Book Review: “The Racketeer” by John Grishham

    Book Review: “The Racketeer” by John Grishham

    Genre:  Thriller  (Great read) – Federal Judge Ray Fawcett and his girlfriend have been murdered and his safe has been emptied. Malcolm Bannister, an ex-lawyer, is 5 years into a 10 year sentence in a minimum security prison in Frostburg, MD.  He knows who the killer is. Malcolm contacts the authorities (starting with the warden)…

  • Book Review: “Catching Fire” by Suzanne Collins

    Book Review: “Catching Fire” by Suzanne Collins

    Genre: Fantasy (The Hunger Games Almost Redone) *************Spoiler Alert…just so you know*************** The first 200, or so, pages were really good.  After that we have to suffer through another Hunger Games (under a different name, and this time, with the old winners). Yes it had some surprising moments that lend themselves to the overall goal.…

  • Book Review: “Arctic Fire” by Stephen Frey

    Book Review: “Arctic Fire” by Stephen Frey

      – (Another Stephen Frey roller-coaster) Genre: Thriller For the first time ever, I read two Stephen Frey books in a row.  He uses a lot of the same names…I never realized that before.  🙂 To his family and friends, Troy Jensen is a daredevil.  To the U.S. Govt, Troy Jensen is one of the…

  • Vince Flynn passes away at 47

    OMG, this is SAD news. One of my all time favorite authors died today from prostate cancer.  He was only 47. Here is a news link.  (I grabbed the above picture from that article…) Go here for my book reviews of the Mitch Rapp series. Damn….damn….:-(((((