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  • Book Review: “One For the Money” by Janet Evanovich

    Book Review: “One For the Money” by Janet Evanovich

    Genre: Mystery (fun and fast) Stephanie Plum was laid off from her job as a lingerie buyer for a local (Trenton, NJ) department store.  Needing money quickly she turned to family and out of the goodness of his heart (not) her cousin Vinnie hired her to be a “skip tracer” in his bail bonds company.…

  • Book Review: “American Assassin” by Vince Flynn

    Book Review: “American Assassin” by Vince Flynn

    Genre: Thriller (Mitch Rapp before he was Mitch Rapp) The terrorists who brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland had no idea what hell they brought upon themselves. They will find out. Mitch Rapp was a star lacrosse player at Syracuse University in Upstate New York.  A gifted athlete waiting for his girlfriend…

  • “I Can Fly!” by Mike Pihlman

    “I Can Fly!” by Mike Pihlman

    S-P-L-A-T – Inspired by this months National Geographic cover. Copyright Sept 8, 2011 by Mike “TracyReaderDad” Pihlman.  This is fiction, I think.

  • Book Review: “Dreams of the Dead” by Perri O’Shaughnessy

    Book Review: “Dreams of the Dead” by Perri O’Shaughnessy

    Genre:  Thiller  (I LOVE Nina!) At one time, I considered Perri O’Shaughnessy my favorite authors.  In 2004, we took a day trip to Carmel, CA to meet them, get autographs, a picture (which they asked me to take off this blog a few years later) and hang around Carmel.  It was a great day. Before…

  • September 2011 Thrillers

    A bunch of new books this month!  Happy reading! Flash and Bones by Kathy Reichs Petroplague by Amy Rogers Saint’s Gate by Carla Neggers Only Fear by Anne Marie Becker Where All The Dead Lie by J.T. Ellison The Black Stiletto by Raymond Benson The Arranger by L.J. Sellers The Ninth Day by Jamie Freveletti Getting Off by Lawrence Block writing as Jill Emerson…

  • Book Review: “The Towman’s Daughters” by David J. Walker

    Genre: Mystery (fun, fast, exciting) This book is an ARC sent to me by David J. Walker.  It is due in stores October 1, 2011, but, can be found online now. Kirsten is an ex-cop turned PI (owner of the detective agency:  Wild Onion, Ltd.), and Dugan, her husband is a lawyer in his own…

  • Book Review: “A Game of Thrones” by George R.R. Martin

    Book Review: “A Game of Thrones” by George R.R. Martin

    Genre:  Fantasy (brutal, epic) “A Game of Thrones” is the first of five books in the “A Song of Ice and Fire” series.  Galen at the Tracy, CA Barnes & Noble told me it was a great book (he was right) and that I really should expand beyond spies, killing and murder. With “Harry Potter”…

  • August 2011 Thrillers

    Lots of new books / e-books! Happy Reading  🙂 Killing Kate by Julie Kramer The Sixes by Kate White Inmate 1577 by Alan Jacobson Home Improvement: Undead Edition by Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner (Editors) Drop by Drop by Keith Raffel Serial by John Lutz A Killer Like Me by Chuck Hustmyre The Twelfth Enchantment by David Liss The Evil Inside by Heather…

  • Book Review: “Killed at the Whim of a Hat” by Colin Cotterill

    Book Review: “Killed at the Whim of a Hat” by Colin Cotterill

    Genre:  Mystery  (terrific) Rating: 5 WaterTowers This is an ARC sent to me by St. Martin’s Press.  It is due in stores July 19, 2011. Wow! Refreshingly original characters, and settings, with more than a dash of humor makes “Killed at the Whim of a Hat” one of the most enjoyable reads this year (or…

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

    Book Review: “City of Secrets” by Kelli Stanley

    Genre: Mystery / Noir  (Miranda rocks!) Rating:  4 WaterTowers “City of Secrets” is an ARC sent to me by Kelli Stanley.  It will be in stores Sept 13, 2011.  Small caveat:  You may know that I adore Kelli. I will try very hard to be objective. Pandora Blake is dead.  Stabbed with an ice pick,…