Thriller
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THE FINAL RECKONING – Robert Bailey

Are you about to read this Robert Bailey book? You’d best put yourself on a strong exercise routine … find a good cardio workout … because this book will have your heart racing, your adrenaline pumping at high levels and you will want to be strong enough to finish. JimBone Wheeler is about as bad Continue reading
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MISTER TENDER’S GIRL – Carter Wilson

I wish I could remember what it was about this book that attracted my attention in the first place. Because I am so far behind in my ARC reading I’ve been very judicious in what I ask to read, so something, somewhere along the line, this book seemed like something I would really enjoy. But Continue reading
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THE GIRL WITHOUT SKIN – Mads Peder Nordbo

“Nordic Noir” has become an actual category of mystery/thriller. Wikipedia has a page dedicated to the sub-genre. Although Nordbo is not yet listed among the authors mentioned, with this book it is clear (to me at least) that he is bound to be a very strong voice in the bleak landscape of horrific crimes. Danish Continue reading
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BEFORE THE FALL – Noah Hawley
Artist Scott Burroughs almost misses the his plane. From Martha’s vineyard, a wealthy media mogul and his family are flying a private jet to New York. The wife of the powerful family patriarch had befriended Scott not too long prior and had invited him to take the trip with them as long as they were Continue reading
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THE PROMETHEUS MAN – Scott Readon
CIA agent Tom Blake hustles in on the French police when a pile of bodies are discovered in Paris. Blake has a lot of inside knowledge and works swiftly and deliberately, impressing the French. But there is just one problem. CIA Agent Blake is actually on assignment in Africa and the man in Paris using Continue reading
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CHURCH OF SPILLED BLOOD – Jesse Miles
Jack Salvo is a part-time philosophy teacher at a community college in Los Angeles and a part-time private investigator. When he signs up to work as bodyguard for the Russian Ballet who’ve come to Los Angeles, he figures he’s in for some pretty easy work and the bonus is that he’ll get to hang around Continue reading
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THE VERY SECRET WEAPON – Tillman Gilson
Every once in a while you run across a book and you just wonder: Why? I’m working hard on clearing out my backlog of ARC books and this stood as one of the oldest books in my queue. I hadn’t gotten around to reading it – for no particular reason – and decided I should Continue reading
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THE STRIVERS’ ROW SPY – Jason Overstreet
The Strivers’ Row Spy is the debut novel for author Jason Overstreet and is a hit from page one all the way to the end. Sidney Temple is one of the first black men to graduate from Middlebury College in 1919 and he’s driven to make sure that the sacrifices his mother made in order Continue reading
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KILLING MAINE – Mike Bond
Killing Maine is the second book in the Pono Hawkins series by Mike Bond. I reviewed the first book, Saving Paradise, here. I was a little nervous about going in to this one, given my feelings about the previous novel. Fortunately, I enjoyed this story much more. Although Pono Hawkins embraces his life in Hawaii, when Continue reading
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SAVING PARADISE – Mike Bond
I’m getting just a little bit smarter…. I saw that an ARC book that I have in my queue is the second book in a series, so I thought I’d go and rent/borrow the first book in the series so that I wouldn’t be taken by surprise when I get to my ARC. Pono Hawkins Continue reading
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INVASIVE – Chuck Wendig
I’ve written before how difficult it is to sustain a sense of horror through an entire novel and indeed, in most of the books I’ve read, that sense of terror, or horror, usually doesn’t hold very steady. But Chuck Wendig proves the exception to this in his novel, Invasive. In Invasive, we have Hannah Stander Continue reading
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I AM THE WEAPON – Allen Zadoff
This is one of the most exciting, involving books I have read in a long time. A sixteen year old boy is a trained assassin. He was found and brought in to the ‘company’ by ‘Mike’ – the assassin who killed the boy’s mother and father. Now, ‘Mother’ and ‘Father’ and the invisible leaders sending Continue reading

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