Category Archives: Crime, Mystery and Thrillers
Chill Run : An Eddie Barrow Mystery – Russell Brooks
(Reviewed by Don Jung) Eddie Barrows wants to be an author, but he can’t get published. He loses his girlfriend, then his job and what else could go wrong? He goes to see his parents to get himself a morale … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Mystery and Thrillers, Our Best
Tagged Canada, crime fiction, suspense
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The Concrete Vineyard – Cam Lang
(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) The Concrete Vineyard is a murder mystery with elements of urban planning, thrills, twists, and turns that unexpectedly engage the reader from the world they are in. It all begins with the suspicious death of an … Continue reading
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Tagged crime fiction, detective fiction, murder-mystery
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Confessions of a Gentleman Killer – Johnny Payne
(reviewed by JD Jung) “If I didn’t kill them afterward, you’d say I was the perfect client, boyfriend, husband, or lover. And believe me, that’s the man I want to be, the man I tried to be. And failed.” It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Mystery and Thrillers, Dark/Sordid/Bizarre, Historical Fiction
Tagged crime fiction, London, serial killers
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In the Shadow of Gold: A Tale of the Lost Confederate Treasure – Michael Kenneth Smith
(Reviewed by Christopher J. Lynch) Michael Kenneth Smith’s book, In the Shadow of Gold, is a historical thriller set during the end of the Civil War. It follows the parallel paths of a disgruntled Confederate midshipman intent on stealing the … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Mystery and Thrillers, Historical Fiction
Tagged American Civil War
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No Room at the Morgue – Jean-Patrick Manchette, Translated by Alyson Waters
(reviewed by JD Jung) “They’re going to lock me up. I’m the perfect fall girl. My fingerprints are everywhere, even on the knife that belongs to me, and I got blood all over me.” Maybe another reason that this femme-fatale, … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Mystery and Thrillers, French Literature, Lost and almost forgotten, Noir-esque fiction, World Literature
Tagged French literature, French noir
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One for the Money (Cat Caliban Series Book 1) – D.B. Borton
(Reviewed by Pat Luboff) ”Suspicion is second nature to any woman who’s raised three kids.” I’m going to say something about this book that I don’t think I’ve ever said about a book: I loved every word! It gave me … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Mystery and Thrillers, Light Fiction, Our Best
Tagged cozy mystery, light humor
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Root and Branch – Preston Fleming
(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) Root and Branch is a political thriller written about Rogers Zorn, who is a security contractor. He learns that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been using his companies’ discoveries in order to achieve … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Mystery and Thrillers, Political fiction
Tagged political thriller
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The Forger’s Daughter – Bradford Morrow
(reviewed by JD Jung) “…I had an epiphany that, notwithstanding my every effort to steer my gifted daughter clear of the precincts of forgery, she possessed more of the counterfeiter’s mental and physical tools than perhaps even I did.“ Will … Continue reading
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Tagged calligraphy, Edgar Allan Poe, forgery
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The Well of Ice (An Inishowen Mystery Book 3) – Andrea Carter
(reviewed by Ann Onymous ) “It always amazes me how any version of the same story can circulate in a small town.” If you love an Irish mystery – and who doesn’t? You’ll enjoy this story given to us from … Continue reading
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Tagged cozy mystery, Irish literature
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Strange Karma – Willow Healy
(Reviewed by Pat Luboff) “As they progressed higher, she caught her first unobstructed glimpse of Ama Dablam, the mountain she had come to climb. Sun sparkled off the hanging glacier, and the mountain’s two side ridges seemed to reach out … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Crime, Mystery and Thrillers, Culture, Historical Fiction
Tagged adventure, Britain, Himalayans, thrillers, Tibet
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