It’s been a while since I’ve read a straight-up mystery with a quirky cast of suspects, and Keenan Powell’s Hell and High Water fit the bill for me. This third installment in the Maeve Malloy Mystery series was a slow building, tension-filled book where a serious storm has trapped everyone on an island in […]
Peter Swanson’s last novel Before She Knew Him was stellar in my book, so I was eager to dig into his latest thriller, Eight Perfect Murders. Within just a few pages, I could see that this was a very different book from his previous novel, featuring a bookstore owner named Malcolm who was quite […]
Looking back on my review of book one in the Kinship series, The Widows, I see that I started off the last new year with this excellent series. Introducing Lily Ross, who takes over her husband’s job as sheriff of her Ohio county in the 1920s after his untimely murder, I devoured the first book […]
My first foray into Diana Munoz Stewart’s world of black ops was the first book in this series, I Am Justice. Featuring a family of sister vigilante assassins protecting the vulnerable and disadvantaged women of the world, the second installment of The Price of Grace focuses on computer whiz Grace Parish. She’s been distancing […]
British crime thrillers and mysteries are favorites of mine, and The Cutting Room by Ashley Dyer proved to be more than your run of the mill murder mystery. When a sadistic, extremely smart and elusive serial killer is on the loose in Liverpool, DCI Greg Carver and Sargent Ruth Lake must piece together […]
Usually a character who is utterly despicable and seemingly unredeemable is the villain, not the main character. In A.F. Brady’s suspense novel Once a Liar, cut-throat defense attorney Peter Caine is such a horrible person throughout this book that I couldn’t believe that anyone would put up with him. But I could not […]
I took a little break from reading and blogging to end 2018, to refresh my batteries from the stresses of a busy work schedule along with a very full home life with nightly martial arts commitments for both my son and I. The stresses haven’t exactly gone away with a government shutdown (where I’m […]
I’ve been a big fan of Marie Force’s Fatal series for a while now, and the latest book, Fatal Invasion delivers everything I expect from this series: danger, intrigue, fast-paced action filled with Sam’s snark and Freddie’s choir boy goodness, and great romance to offset the often dark tone from the crimes throughout the book. […]
After reading a lot of contemporary fiction geared towards women lately, I didn’t know how much I needed to sink my teeth into a gritty, hard-boiled thrilling mystery. Alex Segura’s last installment in the Pete Fernandez Mystery series, Dangerous Ends, was my first introduction to this fantastically rich and dirty look at the seedy underbelly […]
I really love thrillers that I can fall right into–the atmosphere, the characters, and the storyline. I Am Justice by Diana Munoz Stewart fit all that and more. This romantic thriller follows Justice Parish, a trained assassin who fights human trafficking of all kinds along with her adopted sisters and one brother. When they finally […]
Eighteen years ago, Joanna Guthrie was abducted and held captive for two weeks along with two other girls. Forced to do unspeakable things to survive, she and another girl were set free, and Joanna has tried to put that dark time in her past–but the past won’t stop chasing her. She lives an isolated life […]
I’ve really enjoyed Marie Force’s Fatal series, and in 2016 I eagerly read through books one through four before having to turn my attention elsewhere for the blog. Fatal Chaos is book number twelve, and I’m happy to report that this series is consistently fresh, full of suspense and romance, and also has a […]
I haven’t read a hard-boiled, noir-ish detective novel in a while, and Alex Segura’s Dangerous Ends hit all the right notes when it comes to my must-have list in these types of books. Brave yet borderline stupidly fearless main character whose sense of justice and right and wrong drives him to investigate no matter how […]