Fifty years after Michael Crichton came out with The Andromeda Strain—and spawned a new genre, the technothriller—the threat returns, in a gripping sequel. In the year 1969, author Michael Crichton released a novel that was decades ahead of its time. That novel was titled The Andromeda Strain and it also spawned a top-rate film of…
I know it’s become an overused and hackneyed literary device—thank you Gone Girl—to show chapters that come from a different character’s point of view—but in Harry Dolan’s The Good Killer, it really works! He doesn’t always devote entire chapters to one specific character. Sometimes it’s just a few chapters and characters get to share the…
Winter Grave by Helene Tursten is a thrilling mystery set in rural Sweden, where Detective Inspector Embla Nyström must solve a murder case and find two missing children before the small town takes matters into their own hands. The Embla Nystrom Investigation series by Swedish author Helene Tursten has seemingly flown under the radar. Thanks…
With a seamless translation from Fiona Beaton, Broken Glass by million-copy-selling German author Alexander Hartung is a winner and hopefully will gain him a following here in the U.S. Nik Pohl is a grizzled loner of a detective—think the German equivalent of Jo Nesbo’s Norwegian Detective full of issues, Harry Hole. However, the case he…
If Harper Lee’s iconic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, had been set in the mid-west instead of the south, it might resemble the latest novel from Allen Eskens entitled Nothing More Dangerous. Even though this is Eskens’ sixth novel, it is the first he ever wrote. Having begun Nothing More Dangerous decades ago, it became…
Rage is the first in a brand new series featuring Joe Ledger and Rogue Team International, in which Ledger’s elite team must protect the world from a bio-weapon that drives people insane with murderous rage. Jonathan Maberry has had much success in his career, featuring a diverse list of novels he has written as well…
January 1905: Holmes and Watson are summoned by Holmes’ brother Mycroft to undertake a clandestine investigation. An agent of the British Secret Service has been found floating in the Thames, carrying a manuscript smuggled into England at the cost of her life. The pages purport to be the minutes of a meeting of a secret…
There is no clear definition of the term ‘bomber’s moon.’ It was the title of a WWII propaganda film in 1943 and later as the title of a teleplay that the late, great Rod Serling wrote for Playhouse 90 in 1958. For the purpose of the latest Joe Gunther novel from Archer Mayor, it infers…
Winner of the Daily Mail First Novel Competition, A Girl Named Anna by Lizzy Barber is a psychologically riveting read that introduces Lizzy Barber as an outstanding new voice in suspense fiction. British author Lizzy Barber makes her fiction debut with the suspenseful novel A Girl Named Anna. Barber, a former English major from Cambridge University, had concentrated…
If you look up the literal translation for ‘the Fifth Column’ the resulting definition is: ‘a group of people who undermine a larger group from within’. Taken within the confines of the latest release by author Andrew Gross we are talking about German operatives and Nazi sympathizers operating within the United States during World War…
