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  • Book Review: “Hell’s Gate” by Stephen Frey

    Book Review: “Hell’s Gate” by Stephen Frey

    Genre:  Thriller – High powered New York City litigation attorney, Hunter Lee, just kicked some major butt in Montana.  He won a huge award for several families in Fort Mason, Montana who were injured (or killed) in a derailment of rail cars carrying dangerous and deadly products. Hunter’s brother, Strat, lives in Fort Mason and…

  • Book Review: “The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry” by Rachel Joyce

    Book Review: “The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry” by Rachel Joyce

      Genre:  Fiction (Wonderful Journey) – Harold Fry just got a letter from an old friend.  Queenie Hennessy is dying of cancer and she just wanted to say good-bye. Try as he might, Harold could not write a sufficiently good response, but somehow, after many iterations he had a letter that came close.  All he…

  • Book Review: “Inferno” by Dan Brown

    Book Review: “Inferno” by Dan Brown

    Genre:  Thriller (History, Symbolism, Action) Robert Langdon wakes up in the hospital.  He thinks he is close to Harvard University, but, when he looks out the window he realizes he is in Florence, Italy! How in the world did he get there?  He has no memory of the past 48 hours, and to top it…

  • Book Review: “Torn Apart: The Abduction of Gillian Curtis” by Marta Sprout

    Genre:  Mystery / Thriller (Surprising and scary) – This is an ARC sent to me by Marta Sprout.  It will be in stores in August 2013.  đŸ™‚ Gillian Curtis is now living with her father, Mike.  She hates it there and is planning to run away. Dr. Michael Curtis is the head of YorkCare medical…

  • Book Review: “A Dance With Dragons” by George R.R. Martin

    Book Review: “A Dance With Dragons” by George R.R. Martin

    (The adventure continues) Genre: Fantasy “I could not wait to see what happens next, and can’t wait to see how this ends, if in fact it does, in the next book.” UPDATE: It’s December 25, 2022 and I’m S-T-I-L-L waiting…. “A Dance With Dragons” continues the story with emphasis on several of the more popular,…

  • May 2013 Thrillers

    So many books, so little time….happy May reading. — Murder As A Fine Art by David Morrell The Barbed Crown by William Dietrich Onion Street by Reed Farrel Coleman Sleep My Darlings by Diane Fanning Against the Edge by Kat Martin Out of Sight Out of Mind by Evonne Wareham Stolen by Daniel Palmer Fangs Out by David Freed Silken Prey by John Sandford…

  • Book Review: “The Great Gatsby”

    Book Review: “The Great Gatsby”

    – (Classic that is short and sad) Genre:  Fiction – “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.  It eluded us then, but that’s no matter–tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther….And one fine morning——-“ Yes, I decided to read (rather, re-read 30 years…

  • April 2013 Thrillers

    Lots of books….happy reading! – The Famous and the Dead by T. Jefferson Parker Fox Hunt by James Phelan Unintended Consequences by Stuart Woods Extinction Machine by Jonathan Maberry Warrior Rogue by Nancy J. Cohen Let the Dead Sleep by Heather Graham A Time of Change by Aimee and David Thurlo The Libra Affair by Daco The Dark Tower Companion by Bev Vincent Don’t…

  • Book Review: “The Columbus Affair” by Steve Berry

    Book Review: “The Columbus Affair” by Steve Berry

    Genre:  Thriller (Hidden Jewish Artifacts) – Disgraced Pulitzer-prize winning reporter Tom Sagan had his gun to his head when Zachariah Simon (who we met in “The Admiral’s Mark”, see my review) entered his home and offered him a deal. Simon would not kill his daughter, Alle, if Tom would help him locate priceless Jewish artifacts…

  • March 2013 Thrillers

      So many books….so little time.  Enjoy! Evil in All Its Disguises by Hilary Davidson The Boyfriend by Thomas Perry Frozen Solid by James M. Tabor Double Cross of Time by Mark de Castrique Rules of Crime by L.J. Sellers Hammett Unwritten by Owen Fitzstephen Obsession, Impulse and Power by Debra Webb Buried by Kendra Elliot Montana’s Way by Shelia M Goss The Chalice by Nancy Bilyeau The…