This fascinating and inventive novel is the second book by Karen Thompson Walker following her 2012 debut, The Age of Miracles. The Dreamers takes place in Southern California. The book follows several individuals who are living through an epidemic of a strange, new illness. The sickness starts in a college dorm when one freshman goes to … Continue reading
Michael Connelly’s novel Two Kinds of Truth finds former Los Angeles Police Department detective Harry Bosch going into deep cover for one case and defending himself in an old case the LAPD’s Conviction Integrity Unit decides to re-examine. That case involves a murder that Bosch investigated 30 years ago. The Conviction Integrity Unit has found … Continue reading
What do you do when you are a very established author trying to start a new series with a new character? Naturally, you write a book that has the new character as well as your well-known battle worn character. In the case of Michael Connelly’s Dark Sacred Night, the new character is graveyard shift Los … Continue reading
I was expecting a lot from the author of last year’s hit, The Chalk Man, but sadly, I did not get a lot. Although I liked this one well enough, it just wasn’t creepy enough!!! OK, maybe the setting was a bit creepy – a small mining town in England. And, of course, those bad … Continue reading
On a heavy foggy night, eleven people board a private plane headed back to New York. On the plane are a pilot, a co-pilot, and a flight attendant. The plane is chartered by David Bateman, a multimillionaire media mogul and his wife Maggie, a former preschool teacher. Along for the ride are their children … Continue reading
You Don’t Own Me is the fifth entry in the Under Suspicion series in which the main character, television producer Laurie Moran, and her team create programs where they go back and try to solve cold murder cases. Titles in this series can be read as standalones, as the authors do a good job in … Continue reading
A. J. Finn’s debut novel, The Woman in the Window, might first come off as The Girl on the Train and Rear Window with some agoraphobia thrown in to make it a little more unique. Anna Fox, the book’s narrator, is, like Rachel in The Girl on the Train, a boozer and an unreliable narrator. … Continue reading
