Category Archives: Crime, Mystery and Thrillers

Run Baby Run – Michael Allen Zell

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “He’d been in two worlds his whole life. His tender spot. What gave him perspective and experience beyond most people. It was also what could wound him to the quick like nothing else. Why he lived … Continue reading

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The Last Good Place – Robin Burcell

(Reviewed by JD Jung) A serial killer is on the loose, attacking at San Francisco landmarks. This “landmark strangler” has put the city on edge. When Trudy Salvatori is strangled during her morning run around the Presidio, it looks like … Continue reading

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Calling out to all Alfred Hitchcock fans!

(Reviewed by J.D. Jung) From the UnderratedReads archives – What You See in the Dark  by Manuel Muñoz “The woman had to live before she could die…Even if it was the vulgarity of real life—the needs and the mistakes, but also the … Continue reading

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Sin Tax: A One Eyed Jack Novel (Volume 3) – Christopher J. Lynch

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “…Justitia, the symbol of equity in our society, her eyes covered, a broadsword in one hand and a set of scales in the other, stood by mutely while I took a posterior augering. That’s when it … Continue reading

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In the Dark – Chris Patchell

(Reviewed by Ishita RC) What does a single mom,  a fifteen year old teenager and a diabetic college student have in common? A past that has decided to hold them captive. If only teenage angst and a horrible boss were … Continue reading

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Hades – Candice Fox

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Hades had fallen in love with two chimeras, two monsters in disguise, incapable of feeling the way he felt, of loving the way he loved. The horror they had experienced had cut a hole in them … Continue reading

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The Axeman – Ray Celestin

(Reviewed by JD Jung) The following  was submitted to the Times-Picayune on May 6, 1919. “…I am not a human being, but a spirit and a demon from the hottest hell. I am what you Orleanians and your foolish police … Continue reading

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Eden – Candice Fox

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “I’d let things slip since Martina died. Since I’d been shot and Eden had saved my life. It had locked me to her, silencing me forever on the true nature of her being, the nights she … Continue reading

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Vortex – Paul D. Marks

(Reviewed by Cathy Carey) “We did more than just fight a war; we found a way to cash in on it. I guess we had larceny in us to begin with. And now they thought I had the swag. But … Continue reading

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Down Solo – Earl Javorsky

(Reviewed by JD Jung)   “I’m jonesing pretty bad, so, bail out of the morgue, score some dope to tide me over, and then on to the next order of business: finding out who killed me.” Huh? Charlie Miner, our … Continue reading

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