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Category Archives: Crime, Mystery and Thrillers
Quest for Kriya – Rahul Deokar
(Reviewed by JD Jung) Her aroma engulfed him, enticing him to stay. A few seconds seemed like an eternity, but still not enough. Strangers that they were, they stood lost in each other anyway, holding their longing gaze for some … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Mystery and Thrillers, Culture, Romance
Tagged book reviews, India, Romance, San Francisco, spirituality, suspense, Thailand
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Disillusioned – Christy Barritt
(Reviewed by Ishita RC) Nikki Wright is desperately looking for help for her traumatised brother, who escaped from a detainment camp run by terrorists in Colombia and is now undergoing an extreme case of PTSD. Or is it really the … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Mystery and Thrillers, Romance
Tagged book reviews, crime fiction, PTSD, Romance
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Friendly Fire- John Gilstrap
(Reviewed by Ishita RC) In a fit of rage and as an act of vengeance, Barista boy Ethan Falk stabs a customer to death. On his arrest, he tells an eleven year old implausible story of kidnap and molestation where … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Mystery and Thrillers
Tagged Action thriller, ADULT FICTION, BOOK OWL, book review, BOOKS, BOOKWORM, crime fiction, fiction, GENERAL FICTION, mystery, PATRIOTISM, REVIEWS, thriller
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Deception Island – Brynn Kelly
(Reviewed by Ishita RC) A kidnapped son. A soldier with a haunted and tainted past. A cornered con woman looking to leave her past behind. A deadly game that has head, heart and lives at stake. The happiest days for … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Mystery and Thrillers, Romance
Tagged book reviews, Crime, Romance, seduction, thrillers
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Outsider in Amsterdam (Amsterdam Cops) – Janwillem Van De Wetering
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “ “Papuans…He saw the wild men from the early ages who once populated the swamp that, now, today, was called Holland.” Today in 1970’s Amsterdam, most have learned about these people from the Dutch colony of … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Mystery and Thrillers, Culture, Lost and almost forgotten, World Literature
Tagged crime fiction, Dutch literature
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Someone Must Die – Sharon Potts
(Reviewed by Ishita RC) Aubrey Lynd has always lived her life in blessed ignorance, clinging to the illusion of a protective bubble wrap. And then, her nephew is kidnapped from the middle of a carnival while he was with his … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, Crime, mystery, suspense
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Seconds to Live – Melinda Leigh
(Reviewed by Ishita RC) Everyone has a past to run from. Wildlife biologist Mac Barrett is no different from the norm. He returns from Brazil with a physical scare and a secret in heart and ends up in a car … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, crime fiction, mystery, thriller
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Time to Run: Part One (Nick of Time) – John Gilstrap
(Reviewed by Ishita RC) A young woman, on the verge of dying, decides to take a last joyride with a man who is killing more than time. John Gilstrap has made a name in crime thrillers so I had really high … Continue reading
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The Jolly Coroner: A Picaresque Novel- Quentin Canterel
(Reviewed by JD Jung) Finally, a novel that encompasses what I enjoy most in a read… “If we can get the news stations interested, maybe we could find something that would lead to the closing down of a prostitution … Continue reading
Most Wanted – Lisa Scottoline
(Reviewed by Ishita RC) Christine always wanted to have a family of her own – a husband whom she loved and who loved her back and the children they would have together. What she never imagined was that her husband might end … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Mystery and Thrillers
Tagged book reviews, psychological thriller
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