Tag Archives: thriller
Racing the Light by Robert Crais
Read February 2023 Recommended for fans of thrillers ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Satisfying. It feels like a long time since I read a decent thriller. There’s a couple narrative interruptions from other players, but on the whole, this … Continue reading
Sea Storm by Andrew Mayne
Read November 2022 Recommended for police procedural fans ★ ★ ★ Not enough cowbell underwater. For every thriller/mystery series, there is a style and a place, and that’s part of the attraction. Conversations go like this with my … Continue reading
Blood Work by Michael Connelly
Read Sept-Oct 2022 Recommended for police procedural fans ★ ★ 1/2 This was a chore, despite being one of the more competently written Michael Connelly books. If you enjoyed it, fabulous. Sincerely. (And if you like Connelly but haven’t tried … Continue reading
Runner by Patrick Lee
Read August 2022 Recommended for fans of xfiles thrillers ★ ★ I needed a palate cleanser between the dark chocolate intensity of Novik’s The Golden Enclaves, and the crunchy deliciousness of Vo’s Into the Riverlands, which I wanted to re-read … Continue reading
Black Coral by Andrew Mayne
Read August 2022 Recommended for thriller fans ★ ★ ★ ★ Thrillers fill a particular ecological niche in my life. For me, they are literary fast food, perfect for when I need a tasty jolt to power me through a … Continue reading
Persuader by Lee Child
Attempted to Read July 2022 Recommended for airplanes DNF Please add this book to the tv series asap so I don’t have to read any more words. “The cop climbed out of his car exactly four minutes before he … Continue reading
The Runaway by Nick Petrie
Read May 2022 Recommended for thriller fans ★ ★ I’m not the audience for this book. You like this author? Awesome. Move along. Nothing to see here. Here’s the deal: there’s this person I’m dating and this is the second … Continue reading
Sanibel Flats by Randy Wayne White
Read May 2022 Recommended for fans of thrillers, marine biology ★ ★ ★ Ah, the airport thriller. White’s entry into the genre is solid, albeit rather peculiar. What can we say? It was the 1990s. A lot of … Continue reading
Needle Work by Wick Welker
Recommended for: fans of medicine, character thrillers Read in August 2021 ★ ★ ★ ★ I’m reading a lot these days, and when I’m going through a book every couple of days, I like to mix my genres up. I … Continue reading
Florida Straits by Laurence Shimes
Read September 2020 Recommended for fans of ?comedy Mafias? ★ ★ ★ 1/2 This was unexpected. No, really, it was. I expected a Mafia thriller/farce–perhaps along the lines of ‘Get Shorty’–what I found was a rather interesting story … Continue reading