It’s rare when a house feels like one of the characters in a novel, but that’s exactly the case with the house at One Fulgate Street in JP Delaney’s thriller The Girl Before. Delaney switches back and forth between Emma, the girl before, and Jane, who is in the process of moving into the house … Continue reading
Category Archives: Suspense/Thriller
Theme Music by T. Marie Vandelly
Would someone out there please read this book and let me know: Ghost story? “Gaslight” scenario? Just plain crazy? “Theme Music” is about Dixie Wheeler, who, at 18 months old, is the sole survivor of her family’s mass murder which, by the way, was done by her father, William, before he took his own life. … Continue reading
Killer by Jonathan Kellerman
Sophisticated L.A. psychologist Alex Delaware doesn’t think too much about a child custody case between two sisters that he works on. Connie Sykes, a physician, is trying to gain custody of Rambla, her sister Ree’s daughter. Unsuccessful in her bid, Connie shows up at Alex’s office and tells him that she is not going to … Continue reading
The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth
Talk about the unexpected! The Mother-in-Law is one of those novels that with every chapter, you never know what is about to happen. Told in dual narratives between mother-in-law Diana and her daughter-in-law Lucy, as well as dual timelines, you can never tell what the next page will bring. The novel starts off with a … Continue reading
Extreme Prey by John Sandford
At the beginning of John Sandford’s Extreme Prey, main character Lucas Davenport has left the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and is hanging out at his cabin in Wisconsin. I’m not sure if we are supposed to consider Davenport retired or if he is just considering retirement now that he’s a free agent, but, too … Continue reading
The Rumor: a Novel by Lesley Kara
“Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.” Shana Alexander, American journalist That about sums up the storyline from Kara Lesley’s debut, The Rumor: a Novel. If you’ve ever stood outside of a schoolyard waiting for a child, you know what goes on there. It is the information highway. It is … Continue reading
Laws of the Skies by Gregoire Courtois
There are books that you read and love and you know will appeal to most people, so they are easy to recommend. Then there are books that you read and love but they are pretty much your own private taste so you recommend them cautiously. Then there are those books that you read and hate … Continue reading
Field of Prey by John Sandford
Lucas Davenport works as an investigator for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. He’s seen a lot of cases over his many years in law enforcement, but the one he encounters in John Sandford’s Field of Prey might be one of the most gruesome. A young couple out in the country for a make out … Continue reading
I Know Who You Are by Alice Feeney
Riding (I’m sure) the rave reviews from her first novel Sometimes I Lie, author Alice Feeney has another winner with I Know Who You Are. Short chapters just like in her first novel (á la James Patterson which I personally love), as well as the big reveal at the end, (which I also love), and … Continue reading
Two Kinds of Truth by Michael Connelly
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