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If you want a thriller with an Army CID officer that features a kick-ass female supporting role where the plot is based on a tightly-written fast paced narrative and where specialized knowledge of either the military or crime scene forensics and investigations is not required,…

Review of David Baldacci’s The Escape

February 20, 2019

If you have been through surgery or a colonoscopy where general anesthesia is given, you will understand what it is like to see a commercial for water, cola or other hydration, or open the refrigerator, and want something to drink. Your mouth goes dry and…

Water Supply Gone Bad: Review of Mark Donovan’s Waterkill

September 13, 2016

I have to admit if Most Wanted had not been selected by the physical book club (as opposed to virtual bookclubs in Goodreads) for our August meeting, I may not have picked up the novel. Now that I did, I am glad I did. Lisa…

An In Vitro Mystery: Review of Lisa Scottoline’s Most Wanted

July 25, 2016

July 20, 2016 1 New Book For Your TBR Amor Towles’s Adult Historical Fiction A Gentleman in Moscow Expected publication: September 2016. “A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant…

Waiting on Wednesday

July 20, 2016

April 20, 2016 2 New Books For Your TBR Norman Lock’s Literary Poe-like Fiction The Port-Wine Stain – American Novel Series #3 Expected publication: June 14, 2016 A young Philadelphian, Edward Fenzil, who, in the winter of 1844, falls under the sway of two luminaries of the nineteenth-century grotesque…

Waiting on Wednesday

April 20, 2016

I read thrillers because they are exciting, fast paced, involve the CIA, DIA, and other intelligence agencies, and are set in locales that while less than exotic are places that likely I will never visit, at least intentionally, barring my plane being re-routed. Philip…

A Thriller from Slovakia: Review of Philip S. Donlay’s Pegasus Down

January 27, 2016

January 20, 2016 2 New Books For Your TBR V.E. Schwab’s Fantasy-Paranormal Time-Walking A Gathering of Shadows–2nd in the A Darker Shade of Magic series Expected publication: February 2016. Find it on Amazon. Three Londons: “But while Red London is caught up in the pageantry and…

Waiting on Wednesday

January 20, 2016

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Alex Fayman’s Superhighway is a speculative fiction novel that is a mix of techno, science fiction, dystopian, and thriller elements. Superhighway is a good first start for Alex Fayman. His idea, the transporting of humans through the Internet via network fibers is not unlike the “Beam Me…

Coming Via The Network: Review of Alex Fayman’s Superhighway

November 25, 2015

R.D. Grupa has written a thriller that ought to be read in one or two sittings to do the novel justice. I say this because of the number of plots and characters, two topics which will likely be unfamiliar to most readers—oil pipelines and…

Icarus Flew Close to the Sun and Kept His Wings – Review of The Icarus Prediction

November 20, 2015

Imagine the world as you know it, whether as techno-commercialist, an antiquarian yesteryear, a back to the earth environmentalist, or simply as a bookworm visiting a relative in a hospital curled up in a waiting room with a good book and without warning everyone…

World-Ending Fiction: A Review of Station Eleven

October 4, 2015