If you pick up Mesmerized looking for romantic suspense, you won’t find it here – this is a good, old-fashioned spy novel. By the time I’d finished about a third of the book, I realized that the male and female protagonists had only met once – very briefly – and hadn’t exactly fallen deeply in…
Ever read a book so compelling that you dropped everything to sneak in a few pages? A book with a tight plot, a few interesting characters and a rewarding knock-your-socks-off climax? Well, after struggling though all 622 meandering pages of From the Corner of His Eye I can confidently say that this is so not…
This book is not a romance. It is a mystery with a romantic subplot. It is dark, gritty, the villain is truly evil yet sad and sympathetic at the same time, and it is a definite page-turner. So don’t pick up Bone Cold just before bedtime. Harlow Anatasia Grail was considered a Hollywood princess. Daughter…
Talk about timely! With publishing schedules being what they are, Meg O’Brien probably wrote Gathering Lies at least a year ago and yet it brings together two of the most widely reported events in recent history: the television show Survivor and the earthquake that just occurred in the Pacific Northwest. As suspense goes, this one…
In Lisa Gardner’s The Third Victim, she delves into a topic that is extremely current and always heartbreaking: school shootings. Bakersville, Oregon is a small town with all the charm and peace a small town has to offer. Their police department consists of Sheriff Shep O’Grady, two full time officers and some volunteer officers. Rainie…
Taylor Smith makes the jump from paperback to hardcover with this novel, and I’m not really sure that this was the best story for that. You’ll find a lot of suspense here, as the plot moves right along, but it borders on the unbelievable. Mariah Bolt, introduced in Smith’s previous novel, Guilt By Silence, is…
Iris Johansen became one of my favorite suspense authors with The Face of Deception and The Killing Game. Both kept me on the edge of my seat with intricate twists and turns. The Search is scaled back a little in the intricacy of plot, but it is a still a good follow-up to her earlier…
Sacred Trust by Meg O’Brien is not a romance novel. It is a novel of suspense in which a woman discovers that the peaceful world she thinks she lives in is filled with violence and hatred. This is not the sort of thing I usually read and that probably influenced my review, but I’ve tried…
Sometimes when you read a lot of historicals, a contemporary suspense novel can be like a breath of fresh air. When I picked up All or Nothing, that’s what I was hoping for, because I enjoyed Elizabeth Adler’s last book, Sooner or Later. Unfortunately, this latest offering is a little more average. The suspense portions…
“Let’s say that my character is a house of many rooms,” says Michael Florio, the anti-hero of this thriller. Although I had heard raves about this book and knew of the level of suspense in the story, I wasn’t prepared to be as engrossed as I was – for the first two-thirds of the book,…
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