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Laura Griffin

Book Review: Midnight Dunes by Laura Griffin

By Janet Webb

May 20, 2022

Laura Griffin is an expert guide to the uncomfortable tension between doing one’s job and having a personal life. In the island community of Lost Beach, Texas, navigating tricky conflicts of interest comes with the territory. It’s another gritty and imaginative romantic thriller in the Griffin canon.   Midnight Dunes is the third in Laura Griffin’s…

Book Review: Last Seen Alone by Laura Griffin

By Janet Webb

October 13, 2021

Austin attorney Leigh Larson is the lawyer of choice for “victims of sexual extortion, harassment, and online abuse.” Last Seen Alone could not be more topical as October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The plot lives up to the cliché, “ripped from the headlines,” since the news is flush with tragic stories of women killed…

Book Review: Flight by Laura Griffin

By Janet Webb

April 16, 2021

Laura Griffin delivers topical stories, deserving of the accolade “ripped from the headlines.” Her characters are intelligent and detail-oriented, constantly sifting through impressions and facts to arrive at sound conclusions. Set in the fictional Texas coastal town of Lost Beach, Flight is a romantic thriller, in which Griffin masterfully balances the elements of attraction and…

Book Review: Hidden by Laura Griffin

By Janet Webb

September 4, 2020

Investigative reporters are akin to ambulance-chasing lawyers, their ear next to the ground so they don’t miss any breaking stories. In an era where jobs in journalism are precarious, there’s an urgency to be the one, on the regular, who ferrets out what police would prefer to stay hidden. Austin, Texas based reporter Bailey Rhoads…

Off the Grid

By Laura Griffin

August 21, 2020

We see it all the time in suspense fiction. The good guy takes down the villain and does some variation of riding off into the sunset, such as setting sail in the Caribbean (The Firm), slipping quietly into Mexico (The Shawshank Redemption) or beginning a new life in obscurity (The Town). But in the digital…

Now Win This!: Daring Women Sweepstakes

By Crime HQ

April 8, 2014

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Breaking Point by Pamela Clare

Detectives, and Spies, and SEALs, Oh My!: The Difference Between a Romantic Thriller and a Romantic Suspense

By Stacey Agdern

November 21, 2012

One of the ongoing debates in most romance reading circles is the specific answer to one question: What differentiates a romantic suspense from a romantic thriller? The answer is different depending on who you ask, but as far as I’m concerned, it boils down to the scope of the story. Romantic thrillers are filled with…

Twisted by Laura Griffin

Fresh Meat: Twisted by Laura Griffin

By Amy Dalton

April 5, 2012

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…

Texas Wildfire burnos out of control in the summer of 2011

Watching Texas Burn: Arson Hits Close To Home

By Laura Griffin

September 12, 2011

At first I thought it was a rain cloud that would bring relief from the summer’s scorching heat wave. But as I neared the giant gray cloud hovering over Texas Highway 71, I realized it wasn’t a thunderhead but a billowing cloud of smoke. I drove right past it, totally unaware that I’d just driven…

Laura Griffin Snapped

Snapped: New Excerpt

By Laura Griffin

August 25, 2011

On a sweltering summer afternoon, Sophie Barrett walks into a nightmare. A sniper has opened fire on a college campus. When the carnage is over, three people—plus the shooter—are dead and dozens more are injured. Sophie escapes virtually unscathed. Yet as details emerge from the investigation, she becomes convinced that this wasn’t the random, senseless…

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