Given that thrillers have been such fabulous reading for me lately, I thought it was worth sharing two more this week. Author Alma Katsu worked in the world of U.S. intelligence at the CIA and NSA for 29 years imbuing her Red Widow series with an authenticity that makes both novels, Red Widow and Red London, hard to put down. Lyndsey Duncan had been a rising star ... Read More...
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
Sometimes all you need in your reading is a raucous tale of adventure and fun and I found it in Shannon Chakraborty‘s novel, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi. Amina is a middle-aged woman, a mother, a former pirate who once captained the ship that terrorized merchants and the wealthy alike throughout the Indian Ocean. After a catastrophic trek she retired to her home village ... Read More...
What Kind of Paradise
Jane has lived her entire life in a 700 square foot cabin near Bozeman, Montana; her contact with the modern world significantly limited. Her father is stern, but loving, a Luddite zealot who raves against technology in any form and writes copious screeds that no one reads, except Jane. Until he realizes that, with her help, the new expanse of the internet is the perfect place ... Read More...
Culpability by Bruce Holsinger
When Culpability begins the Cassidy-Shaws are heading to one of their children’s sports tournaments when their minivan is hit by another car veering into their lane, resulting in two fatalities. The car is self-driving with the son, Charlie, at the wheel. His father, Noah, an attorney, is next to him while his mother, Lorelei, and two younger sisters are in the backseats. There ... Read More...
The Ghostwriter: A Novel
Olivia Dumont is a successful ghostwriter at the peak of her career until she shreds her reputation at a conference. Now no one wants to hire her, until she gets an offer from a famous horror author, Vincent Taylor, who wants to write a memoir of a specific event in his childhood. Namely, the murder of his two siblings. For as desperate as Olivia is for a job, she doesn’t want ... Read More...
The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett
I’m moving away from terror today with The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett. Eudora is 85 years old, has never married, and lives quietly in her London rowhouse. She’s in reasonable health, but is tired of the idiocy of the modern world and afraid that because she has no family she’s going to spend her last days in a government facility with doctors trying to prolong her ... Read More...
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