Jeffery Deaver’s ‘The Burial Hour’ Delivers A Rush of Pure Adrenaline [REVIEW]

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A hangman’s noose leads Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs on an international manhunt in The Burial Hour. (Photo by Fraser Mummery, Flickr)

A businessman vanishes on a busy city street. A young girl witnesses the crime. A hangman’s noose is left at the scene. Jeffery Deaver’s beloved forensic detectives Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs return to solve another blistering case in The Burial Hour.  Continue reading “Jeffery Deaver’s ‘The Burial Hour’ Delivers A Rush of Pure Adrenaline [REVIEW]”

James Patterson’s ‘Never Never’ Is An Electrifying Thriller [REVIEW]

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When people start disappearing in the Australian outback, Detective Harriet Blue must hunt down a deranged killer in James Patterson and Candice Fox’s Never, Never. (Photo courtesy James Patterson, YouTube)

 

After receiving devastating news, a female investigator is sent to a makeshift town in the middle of nowhere, a place where danger lurks at every turn. There she is given a suspicious new partner, tasked with finding out what is happening to a growing list of missing persons, and forced to navigate her way through a plethora of transient characters with too much time on their hands. With so much against her, will she be able to fulfill her assignment? And more importantly, will she make it out alive? Find out in James Patterson and Candice Fox’s pulse-pounding new thriller, Never Never.  Continue reading “James Patterson’s ‘Never Never’ Is An Electrifying Thriller [REVIEW]”

Nothing Is What It Seems in Jayne Ann Krentz’s ‘When All the Girls Have Gone’ [REVIEW]

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One is dead. A second is missing. When a killer strikes Seattle, no one is safe in Jayne Ann Krentz’s When All the Girls Have Gone.(Photo by Thomas Rousing, Flickr)

A woman named Louise is dead. Her best friend, Jocelyn, has gone missing. And now a third woman’s life is in danger. No one is safe in Jayne Ann Krentz’s intricately plotted new novel, Where All the Girls Have Gone.  Continue reading “Nothing Is What It Seems in Jayne Ann Krentz’s ‘When All the Girls Have Gone’ [REVIEW]”

There’s Something Amiss in Allison Brennan’s ‘Compulsion’ [REVIEW]

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A missing retired couple. A suspected killer on trial. Investigative journalist Maxine Revere knows there’s a connection in Allison Brennan’s Compulsion. (Photo by Gage Skidmore, Flickr)

One man is on trial for five New York City murders, but a determined investigative reporter believes his crimes don’t end there. When a retired couple goes missing, the details of the case seem eerily similar. But can the reporter connect the defendant to the case? Find out in Allison Brennan’s Compulsion.  Continue reading “There’s Something Amiss in Allison Brennan’s ‘Compulsion’ [REVIEW]”

Allison Leotta’s ‘The Last Good Girl’ Should Be Your First Summer Read [REVIEW]

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Sometimes no one will listen… until it is too late. (Photo by martinak15, Flickr)

When a young woman cries rape during her first week of college, no one listens to her… until she disappears. Who took her? Is she still alive? And why do all clues lead back to her university’s most prestigious fraternity? Allison Leotta shows us where all the bones are buried in her latest legal thriller, The Last Good Girl. Continue reading “Allison Leotta’s ‘The Last Good Girl’ Should Be Your First Summer Read [REVIEW]”