Garden of Darkness by Anne Frasier

In recent years innovative romance author Theresa Weir has turned to writing straight suspense under the name Anne Frasier. As in her romances, her suspense plots mix familiar murder mystery elements with dark and unique touches. In Garden of Darkness, Frasier returns to the haunted town of Tuonela, Wisconsin for another round of disturbingly well-written…

The Missing

The Missing is a creepy horror story that deftly depicts many different characters and their internal monsters. With lyrical and at times poetic writing, it features haunting portrayals of an ancient predator that arises and devours a small town. If you like horror, Langan might be a new author to check out. The story opens…

Gone

Gone is a solid and engrossing mystery with a fairly suspenseful plot. However, readers should not expect a romance, because this isn’t one, although it does examine the relationship between a husband and wife. Rainie Connor Quincy, a capable former cop turned child advocate, has strangely disappeared in the middle of the night, leaving her…

The Mephisto Club

Tess Gerritsen has undoubtedly come up with an intriguing premise in The Mephisto Club. Unfortunately, due to what would definitely be termed TSTL behavior on the part of her tag team of recurring characters and my perennially wrinkled forehead regarding character details that the author never bothers to provide, it never really got past that…

Silent Waters by Jan Coffey

Jan Coffey is a pseudonym for a writing couple who’ve both had experience building submarines (their romance aka is May McGoldrick). That experience is apparent in every page of their latest suspense novel. Recreating the highly technical and claustrophobic world of a modern submarine isn’t something the lay author could do, and it’s their expertise…

Dirty Little Secrets

When Dirty Little Secrets first appeared on the list of books available for review, I passed it over for another of Downtown Press’s Bad Girls books, Awaken Me Darkly, a paranormal that sounded right up my alley. That turned out to be a mistake, because the book wasn’t very good. Luckily, I got a second…

Before I Wake by Anne Frasier

Serial killers and memory loss are two of the most overused devices in suspense fiction, but Anne Frasier offers a somewhat different spin on these familiar themes in her latest thriller, Before I Wake. It has a few initial weaknesses, but once the story picks up steam, it develops into a gripping read. <!– var…

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