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It is very rare that I am taken so quickly by the setting of a novel. The history and people of Hungary and specifically Budapest are related with clarity and great interest in Adam LeBor’s District VIII. The novel is a detective-driven conspiracy thriller that takes place in the city of two million, which is... Continue Reading →
I was forced to put this one down five times: work, kids, sleep, sleep, kids. Each was a painful separation. Dean Koontz’s The Crooked Staircase continues Jane Hawk’s mission against the Techo Arcadians, a group of rogue government and private egomaniacs, who forced her husband to commit suicide using nanorobotics injected into his brain. She... Continue Reading →
One Way by S.J. Morden is satisfying hard science fiction with a twist. The novel opens with the appropriation of convicts by a private entity to build a base for NASA on Mars. The narrative follows Frank Kitterage, a prisoner who is recruited for his knowledge of construction, as he trains to become a pseudo-astronaut... Continue Reading →
Tristram Korten's Into the Storm is a riveting account of the search and rescue effort to save the crews of two ships lost in Hurricane Joaquin in the fall of 2015. The El Faro and the Minouche are trying to move cargo across the Caribbean as the storm grows in intensity. Korten follows the actions... Continue Reading →
The Death of Mrs. Westaway is a look into the gnarled and twisted branches of an English country seat’s family tree. Ruth Ware’s latest is an excellent thriller about Hal, a down-on-her-luck young woman, who is given a glimmer of hope when she receives a note announcing a possible inheritance. After her mother’s untimely death... Continue Reading →
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