The Delta is a thriller by Tony Park set in Africa about Sonja Kurtz, an ex-assassin turned mercenary who's hired to blow up a dam in Botswana (available October 7, 2014). Modern Africa is a nation torn by tribal divisions, poverty, great riches and a fragile ecosystem. Sonja Kurtz is a woman in love with…
A Killing in the Hills by Julia Keller is a debut legal thriller featuring a mother and daughter who attempt to find a shooter in a small town in West Virginia while mending their fragile relationship (available August 21, 2012). When I look back on my reading of this book, my perspective changed completely after…
Twisted by Laura Griffin is a novel of romantic suspense and part of the “Tracers” series (available April 17). Laura Griffin’s “Tracers” series is more a set of interconnected novels that a traditional series. She has a cast of characters that sometimes relate to each other as they solve cases, but each novel can stand…
I hadn’t read this series, but I jumped in with book three. Charley Davidson is a pretty young woman who is an investigator. She was trained by her cop father and her cop uncle but works freelance. Oh, and she’s the Grim Reaper. She helps souls who are stuck on earth cross over, if they…
A few weeks ago my To Be Read pile had a Michael Connelly, a Jonathan Kellerman, and a Dick Francis (well, Felix Francis, at least) on the stack. As I looked at those spines I realized that despite breaking up with my fair share of authors, I seem to have more than a few that…
Eoin Colfer is best known in the States for the Artemis Fowl books—his series for children about a boy genius—and fairies. He was also chosen to continue Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker trilogy. Plugged, therefore, is a complete departure from his usual speculative fiction. It’s a non-magical, hard-boiled but humorous crime story set in New Jersey, the direct…
We may not have gotten a new James Bond film this year because of MGM’s money issues, but Bond’s Astin Martin got to star in a spy movie of his own, Disney Pixar’s Cars 2. The dashing Finn McMissile, voiced by the even more dashing Michael Caine, is a silver-blue custom automobile. His body is based…
Oh, the bliss of finding a new author you like! Who has multiple books! I feel like Maria at the beginning of Sound of Music—running and spinning around. I got a copy of Deon Meyer’s Thirteen Hours a year ago. I never even cracked the cover. I don’t know why. The cover copy makes it…
In Beth McMullen’s debut, Original Sin, Lucy is a bored housewife, living in the suburbs and raising her adored 3 year old son…wait, I thought I read books to escape my life!?! But “Lucy” isn’t her real name. She’s a former spy who was recruited in college after acing a government exam. After jokingly signing…
Does abduction run in the family? Andrea Kane crafts her new book, The Girl Who Disappeared Twice, around this premise. Hope and Felicity Ackerman were six year-old twins when Felicity was taken right out of their shared bed. 32 years later, Hope’s daughter is abducted. Hope calls in Casey Woods and Forensic Instincts, a team…
