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Cigarettes, rye, and a broken honeypot. At the end of WW2, Ellis Voigt is a man caught between Russian spies, the FBI, and his own Naval intelligence service. Nuclear secrets have been passed and a traitor has been killed. And Voigt needs to string along all sides to stay alive and prove his innocence. My... Continue Reading →
What makes a narrator credible? How is that relationship built between reader and storyteller? Told through flashbacks, memory slips, fantasies, hallucinations, and journal entries, You-Jeong Jeong’s The Good Son is a Korean thriller with a most unreliable narrator. College student Yu-Jin has woken up covered in blood and his morning gets more puzzling, dark, and creepy... Continue Reading →
"I’ve made corpses before but never loved it." Alma Rosales can be many things: a Pinkerton agent, a naive young Scottish girl, a gruff dock worker, a poor Southern worker woman. A shape-shifter, a chameleon, one who is willing to play any angle to get the information she needs. Now in Townsend, Washington working for Delphine... Continue Reading →
‘Where there’s woods, there’s wacky…’ Paula Munier’s A Borrowing of Bones is an exciting thriller set in Vermont with two well-trained canines as the star detectives. The author brings together a bomb-sniffing Malinois named Elvis, who has some PTSD symptoms, and a Search and Rescue Newfoundland named Susie Bear. Armed with few clues, former MP... Continue Reading →
Here's a list of some very good thrillers I've reviewed that will release this month. Like my past lists, I'll write a quick blurb and provide a link to my full review: The Crooked Staircase by Dean Koontz: The third book in Koontz's Jane Hawk series. Hawk continues her mission to take down the dark... Continue Reading →
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