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Hitman: A Stanley Hastings Mystery (Stanley Hastings Mysteries) 1 review
Parnell Hall
Pegasus Books, 2007
Smart & Funny
Stanley Hastings is, like his creator Parnell Hall, smart and funny. Hastings is a New York Private Investigator, like Hall. He doesn't carry a gun, he goes home to his wife, and he tries to do the right thing. In Hitman, Hastings finds himself embroiled in a case far from the usual slip and ...
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The Broken Window: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel (Lincoln Rhyme) 75 reviews
Jeffery Deaver
Simon & Schuster, 2008
George Orwell and Aldous Huxley are spinning in their graves!
+ My first Jeffrey Deaver novel
+ A good team overcomes
+ Great transaction
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Blasphemy 148 reviews
Douglas Preston
Forge Books, 2008
Love to read
+ Guilty Pleasure for Amateur Science Nerds
+ Interesting
+ Think this is fantasy? There's more here than meets the eye!
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Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher, No. 11)180 reviews
Lee Child
Delacorte Press, 2007
Reacher follows in the literary Rambo's footsteps
+ best of jack reacher
+ Reacher Strikes Again!
+ Lee Child delivers again.
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Power Play99 reviews
Joseph Finder
St. Martin's Press, 2007
JOSEPH FINFER IS THE BEST KEPT SECRET
+ Worth the time to read....four stars
+ good tech thriller
+ Finder's 'Power Play'
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Last Known Victim (STP - Mira) 19 reviews
Erica Spindler
Mira, 2007
Kept My Attention
+ Liked it, in spite of the main characters
+ Good Read
This is the first book that I have read by Ms. Spindler. I found it very interesting. This is the only book in about a year that the suspense kept my interest and I read it all the way through without going to the end to see who done it and put the book on the shelf.
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Lie Down with the Devil (Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries)10 reviews
Linda Barnes
St. Martin's Minotaur, 2008
Reviewing: "Lie Down With The Devil"
+ Her best ever!
+ Latest, but short, Carlotta Carlyle sequel entertains her fans
The latest in the series finds Carolotta estranged from nearly everyone and not by her choice. Sam Gianelli is on the run somewhere overseas and can't come home because of federal trouble in Vegas. He is refusing all help or contact and with things involving the feds, she isn't going to get much ...
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The Sanctuary30 reviews
Raymond Khoury
Dutton Adult, 2007
A gripping saga.
+ Excellent, fun and fowing read
+ good read
+ Very good until the end
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The Echo Maker: A Novel102 reviews
Richard Powers
Picador, 2007
surreal landscape that sucks you in...
+ Intelligent and entertaining
Powers knows how to suck you into the turmoil and conflict in a character's life.
This book deserves all the accolades it received. I could not put this down. Great stuff on identity, sibling relationships, what it means to be intimate after decades in a romantic relationship, and how we are ...
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Phantom Prey (Lucas Davenport Mysteries)101 reviews
John Sandford
Putnam Adult, 2008
Lucas is still hot as every.
+ Another hit for Sandford
+ Phantom Prey
John Sandford is still holding his space as best selling author and it shows in his work. Phantom Prey is another Lucas Davenport crime novel. Lucas as always is strong, tough and confused by the madness of the killer or killers. This one takes you through a maze of characters who are or are not ...
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The Foreign Correspondent: A Novel65 reviews
Alan Furst
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007
Evocation of another world
+ A good read
+ This is a terrific book.
+ superb, fast, easy reading
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1st to Die (The Women's Murder Club)545 reviews
James Patterson
Grand Central Publishing, 2005
Ist to Die
+ Start of new women-led murder series
+ Wonderful start to the series
This is the first in the Women's Murder Club series and it is the first James Patterson book I've read. He is a popular and prolific writer, and this thriller doesn't disappoint. It may not be great literature, but it is easy reading with very short chapters and it keeps the reader's interest to ...
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Plum Lovin' (A Between-the-Numbers Novel) (A Between-the-Numbers Novel)256 reviews
Janet Evanovich
St. Martin's Press, 2007
Plum Loving
+ I love these characters!
+ between-the-numbers fun
This is a can not put down book. Janet Evanovich is a great writter. I am working working my way through all of the Plum series, since I got hooked on the first one I read.
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Killer Heat30 reviews
Linda Fairstein
Doubleday, 2008
Great Book for Alex Cooper Fans!!
+ Not as great as the previous novels in the series, but still very enjoyable!
+ An Outstanding Mystery and a Great Thriller too
+ Another great book by Linda Fairstein
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics257 reviews
Marisha Pessl
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007
Special Topics In Descriptive Sentences and Tangents
I went into this novel knowing nothing about it -- not the plot, not the hype, nothing. I ended up being both impressed and disappointed simultaneously.
Special Topics in Calamity Physics, like it's title, is a mouthful. The book is filled with sentences so overly verbose that it's like trying ...
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Hurricane20 reviews
Jack Stewart
Bootleg Press, 2003
A Mighty Fine Adventure Story
+ Lots of Chase Scenes in this Action Packed Thriller
+ A Real Sitting on the Edge of Your Seat Thriller
+ Drug Smugglers and a Hurricane What a Ride!
+ Action Packed Book!
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Limitations27 reviews
Scott Turow
Picador, 2006
NOT YOUR TYPICAL "LEGAL THRILLER", BUT A DOLLOP OF AMBROSIAL WRITING
If you are looking for what the commercial reviews have billed as yet another classy "legal thriller" in vintage Turow style, then you'll be disappointed. "Limitations" is unlike any of his previous work, and delightfully so.
Not a grave departure, mind you. Not like John Grisham doing a ...
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Midnight Rambler: A Novel of Suspense61 reviews
James Swain
Ballantine Books, 2007
Loved this book
I have read all of Mr. Swain's Tony Valentine books and enjoyed each of them. Then I picked up Midnight Rambler. What a surprise! The subject matter of this book is quite a departure from the Tony Valentine books. And while the other books were interesting, I found this book riveting. The pace ...
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Take Me, Take Me with You: A Novel of Suspense 13 reviews
Lauren Kelly
Harper Paperbacks, 2005
Compelling, thrilling and ultimately unsettling.
The pace at the start of the story gave me a rush of adrenline.
It was superbly crafted, moving in time and presenting the future before the present. The characters were seedy, and the decisions and choices of the protagonist made it hard to root for her. But at the end I accepted her choice ...
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The Virgin of Small Plains: A Novel39 reviews
Nancy Pickard
Ballantine Books, 2007
Nancy at her best
+ What can I say? I liked it!
I've read all of Nancy Pickard's novels, and this is one of the most intriguing. The suspension of disbelief required is considerable, so the fact that she still carries off a real page-turner is all the more impressive.
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