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
Single mother Louise finds herself in a very uncomfortable situation in Sarah Pinborough’s novel Behind Her Eyes. She meets and kisses a man named David at a bar only to find out that he is a newly hired psychiatrist at the medical practice where she works as a secretary. She is able to stay at … 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
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has nothing on Lars Kepler’s The Sandman. This has to be the darkest book I have ever read. The first few pages are a mixture of Silence of the Lambs and In Cold Blood. And it never stops! Chapter One begins with a young man stumbling around a railroad … Continue reading
