Live to Tell

I love books based upon what I call Ordinary Evil that begins with an event that can happen to anyone. A car accident. An unwanted pregnancy. A child picking up something they shouldn’t. It is what happens after that takes these ordinary instances – accidents typically, mild carelessness at worst – into devastating crime. And…

Undone

Undone

I have read all three books in the Will Trent series this year and enjoyed them in differing amounts, but having finished Undone, I think I’m ready for a little break from the bleak and violent world Slaughter has created. The book opens with retired couple Henry and Judith Coldfield traveling to see their grandchildren…

Riptide

While I treasure the emotion and happy endings of romance, I also like a good, edgy suspense thriller. Riptide definitely delivers in the latter department. Though some aspects of the novel could use a bit more polish, I still found myself enjoying this book. It’s not for the faint of heart, but it’s definitely a…

Hot Pursuit

Hot Pursuit is a bit of a departure for Brockmann. The Troubleshooters series has always had plots within plots and storylines that take several books to resolve, but this is the first I’ve read that doesn’t resolve anyone’s romance. That’s not to say that there aren’t romantic moments; however, no one new gets a happy…

Say Goodbye

My roommate asked me the other day if I liked murder mysteries. I told her I did, as long as there were good characters. Though I initially despaired of making a connection with the characters of Say Goodbye, things eventually picked up to make a well crafted, if disturbing, mystery. Kimberly Quincy is an FBI…

The Neighbor

I’ve long been a fan of the television show Without a Trace. The disappearance stories on the show sometimes end in the discovery of a murder and sometimes in the victim being found alive and often one doesn’t know until the very end how close to a happy ending it will be for all involved….

Your Heart Belongs to Me

Although he is known for horror and thrillers, I’ve loved the way Dean Koontz often put a strong relationship in his novels. When I learned that his new novel was about a hero fighting to get a new heart and keep his girlfriend, I thought this could be classic Koontz again. Instead, it looks like…