Noah Christopher sent me his own copy of The Confessor, the first Logan Hollister thriller — and it survived a rainy three-day detour to my old address to get here! Here’s my take on this addictive new detective series.
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I was sent a copy of The Torch Is Passed: A Harding Family Story by Bill Powers The Torch Is Passed: A Harding Family Story by Bill Powers Release Date: 2016-02-04 First there was The Pharm House, Finalist in the Medical Thriller category of the 2014 National Indie Excellence Awards, where readers met Nicholas Harding and his daughter, Andrea. Now comes the second Harding Family story. In the exciting new thriller, The Torch is Passed, Andrea has just graduated college and her world is turned upside down when her…
Read MoreBook Read: March 25, 2010 Horns: A Novel By: Joe Hill 0061147958 Published by: William Morrow Genre: Pages: 384 Author’s Website: http://joehillfiction.com Author’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/joe_hill Recommendable for people who: People who like fantasy/thriller… Good vs. Evil fiction Synopsis: {from Joe Hills website} At first Ig thought the horns were a hallucination, the product of a mind damaged by rage and grief. He had spent the last year in a lonely, private purgatory, following the death of his beloved, Merrin Williams, who was raped and murdered under inexplicable circumstances. A mental…
Read MorePurchased: May 30, 2009 Read: Feb 2010 Hannibal Rising by:Thomas Harris 0385339410 9780385339414 Published by: Delacorte Press Genre: Thriller Pages: 336 Author’s Website: www.randomhouse.com/features/thomasharris/ Author’s Twitter: Recommendable for people who: Hannibal fans (of course), historical fiction lovers, thriller & crime drama fans The Book: HE IS ONE OF THE MOST HAUNTING CHARACTERS IN ALL OF LITERATURE. AT LAST THE EVOLUTION OF HIS EVIL IS REVEALED. Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck. He seems utterly…
Read MoreOk, I’m gonna stick with the Thriller tag for this one as well since it’s just as thrilling as Relic if not more so. Reliquary, again co-authored by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, is a direct sequel to Relic. Occurring just 18 months after the Museum Beast killings in the New York Museum of Natural History, this book takes off with a rush of adrenaline. It starts out with the discovery of two HEADLESS bodies found in the Humboltd Kill. Add to THAT shock the fact that one of the…
Read MoreI began re-reading the Pendergast series as there is a new book due out May 19, 2009. I like to refamiliarize myself with the books and characters in a series before I start the new one. The characters of Pendergast, Margo Green, Vincent D’Agosta, and a journalist named William Smithback, Jr. appear in this book as well as the next two and then more after that. Relic is the first book in a series written by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child together. Although they do write separately, I much prefer…
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