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Deborah Lacy

Book Review: A Dangerous Man by Robert Crais

By Deborah Lacy

August 17, 2019

A Dangerous Man is a brilliant new crime novel from the beloved, bestselling, and award-winning master of the genre, Robert Crais, and the 18th book in the Elvis Cole and Joe Pike series. Robert Crais is back with another installment in the Elvis Cole and Joe Pike series, and he’s done it again with another…

Review: Glitter Bomb by Laura Childs with Terrie Farley Moran

By Deborah Lacy

October 3, 2018

Glitter Bomb by Laura Childs with Terrie Farley Moran is the 15th book in the Scrapbooking Mystery series, where an exploding Mardi Gras float becomes the strangest murder weapon scrappy sleuth Carmela Bertrand has ever encountered. It’s Mardi Gras time in the Big Easy, and in the midst of all the revelry and bead throwing, the…

Review: Hellbent by Gregg Hurwitz

By Deborah Lacy

February 5, 2018

Evan Smoak―government assassin gone rogue―returns in Hellbent, an engrossing, unputdownable thriller from Gregg Hurwitz, the latest in his #1 international bestselling Orphan X series. Leaked! Read a transcript from the audio recording of a tumultuous interview between Gregg Hurwitz and his government assassin gone rogue, Evan Smoak! Gregg Hurwitz’s Orphan X series is a wild…

Review: Hidden Depths by Ann Cleeves

By Deborah Lacy

January 22, 2018

Now available in the U.S., Hidden Depths is the third book in Diamond Dagger award-winning crime novelist Ann Cleeves’s Vera Stanhope series, brought to life in the hit TV series Vera (available January 23, 2018). From the very first sentence of Ann Cleeves’s book Raven Black, she had a fan in me. I also love…

Review: Dead on Arrival by Matt Richtel

By Deborah Lacy

July 28, 2017

Dead on Arrival is a chilling medical thriller that draws on Matt Richtel's years of science and technology reporting for the New York Times and establishes him as one of the premier thriller writers working today (available August 1, 2017).  “Outside, there was an explosion of light, the airplane’s headlights. They illuminated a swath of pavement,…

Review: Need You Dead by Peter James

By Deborah Lacy

June 5, 2017

Set in Brighton and Sussex, England, Need You Dead by Peter James is the 13th book in the Detective Superintendent Roy Grace series (available June 6, 2017).  When Roy Grace had first joined the Major Crimes Branch, he had made a pledge to himself. He was going to raise that bar from eighty-five percent of homicides…

Review: Based on a True Story by Delphine de Vigan

By Deborah Lacy

May 8, 2017

Based on a True Story by Delphine de Vigan is a standalone psychological thriller and a chilling work of fiction—but based on a true story—about a friendship gone terrifyingly toxic and the nature of reality. A few months after my last novel came out, I stopped writing. For almost three years, I didn’t write a single…

Review: Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

By Deborah Lacy

April 21, 2017

Before the Fall by Noah Hawley is a heart-pounding thriller that raises questions of fate, human nature, and the inextricable ties that bind us together. It is nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Novel. Everyone has their path. The choices they’ve made. How any two people end up in the same place at the same…

Review: Dancing with the Tiger by Lili Wright

By Deborah Lacy

April 13, 2017

Dancing with the Tiger by Lili Wright is a literary thriller of propulsive force that is taut, acidly witty, menacingly erotic, and often absolutely terrifying. It is nominated for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. She wore black, the color of nuns and witches, the color of the loneliest corners of outer space, where gravity…

Audiobook Review: The Lost Order by Steve Berry (Read by Scott Brick)

By Deborah Lacy

March 30, 2017

The Lost Order Writer’s Cut Audio Edition is written and annotated by Steve Berry and narrated by Scott Brick. It is the 12th installment in the Cotton Malone series (available April 4, 2017). Take a visual tour of The Lost Order with GIFnotes! Steve Berry is one of my favorite thriller writers not only because…

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