Category Archives: Crime Fiction

Frightful Friday: Precious Blood by Jonathan Hayes

Frightful Friday is a weekly meme in which I feature a particularly scary or chilling book that I’ve read that week. Feel free to grab the button & join in! Be sure to include a link to your post in … Continue reading

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Review: Promise Not To Tell by Jennifer McMahon

Paperback: 250 pages Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (April 10, 2007) ISBN-10: 9780061143311 Source: Publisher   “One potato, two potato, three potato four She used to live here long ago She doesn’t anymore” Forty-one year old Kate has returned to her small … Continue reading

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Frightful Friday: So Close the Hand of Death by J.T. Ellison

Frightful Friday is a weekly meme in which I feature a particularly scary or chilling book that I’ve read that week. Feel free to grab the button & join in! Be sure to include a link to your post in … Continue reading

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Review: The Third Rail by Michael Harvey

Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Vintage (March 22, 2011) ISBN-10: 0307946584 Source: Kaye Publicity In Harvey’s third Michael Kelly novel, former Chicago PD turned private investigator Michael Kelly witnesses a murder on the platform of the L train. He pursues the … Continue reading

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Frightful Friday: The Silenced by Brett Battles

Frightful Friday is a weekly meme in which I feature a particularly scary or chilling book that I’ve read that week. Feel free to grab the button & join in! Be sure to include a link to your post in … Continue reading

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Review: A Heartbeat Away by Michael Palmer

Hardcover: 416 pages Publisher: St. Martin’s Press; First Edition edition (February 15, 2011) ISBN-10: 9780312587529 Source: Author James Allaire, President of the United States, is just about to start the State of the Union Address when a viral agent is … Continue reading

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Frightful Friday: Lucifer’s Tears by James Thompson

Frightful Friday is a weekly meme in which I feature a particularly scary or chilling book that I’ve read that week. Feel free to grab the button & join in! Be sure to include a link to your post in … Continue reading

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Review: 31 Bond Street by Ellen Horan

Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (March 1, 2011) ISBN-10: 0061773972 Source: Publisher   Emma Cunningham is a young widow with two daughters.  She meets Harvey Burdell, a wealthy dentist.  Burdell promises her many things, including land, marriage, … Continue reading

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Review: The Lock Artist (Audiobook) by Steve Hamilton

Listening Length: 12 hour(s) and 37 min. Program Type: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Publisher: Brilliance Audio (January 5, 2010)/Minotaur Books (print edition) Source: Library At a very young age, Michael witnessed a horrendous crime.  Since then, he’s been unable to speak. Nearly a … Continue reading

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Review: Three Seconds by Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom

Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher:SilverOak (January 4, 2011) ISBN-10: 1402785925 Source: Publisher Piet Hoffman, a former criminal,  is an undercover police informant who has worked hard to attain his high ranking in the Polish Mafia.  After witnessing a murder that took … Continue reading

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