Category Archives: Thriller

Review: Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning

Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Dell; Reprint edition (August 26, 2008) ISBN-10: 0440240999 Source: Publisher In the second of Moning’s Mackayla Lane series, Mackayla (Mac) is settling down into her new life in Dublin. She now works for Barron’s … Continue reading

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Review:The Disappearance by Bentley Little

Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Signet (September 7, 2010) ISBN-10: 0451231031 Source: Publisher A group of UCLA students make the long drive to Nevada to attend the Burning Man celebration.  They let loose and enjoy the party atmosphere around them.  One … Continue reading

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Review: The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths

Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; First Edition edition (January 5, 2010) ISBN-10: 0547229895 Source: Library copy   Ruth Galloway, archeologist, lives in a remote area near Norfolk called Saltmarsh.  She has experience recovering ancient relics & remains of … Continue reading

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Review: Ashes to Water by Irene Ziegler

Hardcover: 394 pages Publisher: Five Star (June 16, 2010) ISBN-10: 1594148600 Source: Author Annie Bartlett returns to her small Florida hometown after her father is murdered.  She demands to confront the woman acquitted of the crime, and is astonished to … Continue reading

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Mini-Review: Running from the Devil by Jamie Freveletti

  Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Harper; Reprint edition (May 25, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 0061684236 Source: Publisher Biochemist Emma Caldridge is on a flight from Miami to Bogota when the plane goes down in a fiery crash.  Shortly after … Continue reading

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Review: So Cold the River by Michael Kortya

  Hardcover: 528 pages Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition (June 9, 2010) ISBN-10: 0316053635 Source: Received at BEA Eric Shaw is a failed filmmaker who, rather than making the films in LA as he’d hoped and dreamed, … Continue reading

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Review: Dismantled by Jennifer McMahon

  Paperback: 422 pages Publisher: Harper ISBN: 978-0-06-168934-5 Source: Publisher   Four young friends from Sexton College in Vermont formed a group called the Compassionate Dismantlers.  The motto of the Dismantlers was: ” To understand the nature of a thing, … Continue reading

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Review: Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth

Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Putnam Adult (May 18, 2010) ISBN-10: 0399156356 Source: Publisher Warnings: Mild gore, violence, language Nathaniel Cade isn’t your typical secret agent-he’s a vampire who has been protecting the Presidential office for the past 140 years.  Cade … Continue reading

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Mini-Review: Skin and Bones by D.C. Corso

Paperback: 162 pages Publisher: Bennett & Hastings; 1st edition (October 1, 2009) ISBN-10: 1934733385 Source: Author A child goes missing in Carver Isle, Washington, and FBI Special Agent Ash is put on the case. The small, quiet community is turned … Continue reading

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A Glimpse Inside Chelsea Cain’s Portland

On Monday, I introduced you all to the thrilling & bone-chilling world of Chelsea Cain.  As I mentioned, setting in Cain’s novels are like a character in and of themselves, so I thought it would be perfect to get a … Continue reading

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