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Ragnar Jonasson’s Blackout, the third book in his Dark Iceland series, is a decent murder mystery set in Iceland during the height of summer and in the midst of ash fallout from volcanic activity. A resident of the small northern town of Siglufjörður has been killed with a knock to the head with a nail-studded... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
August Thomas’s Liar’s Candle is the story of diplomatic intern Penny Kessler's fight for survival after the bombing of the American Embassy in Ankara, Turkey. Penny wakes up at a hospital the day after a devastating bomb has killed hundreds of people at the embassy’s Independence Day party. She is one of the few survivors... Continue Reading →
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