Tag Archives: thriller
Sea Storm by Andrew Mayne
Read August 2022 Recommended for people fans of water, thrillers, procedurals ★ ★ ★ ★ It was probably four chapters before I really stopped to take a breath. It’s been awhile since I had a read like that viscerally engaging, … 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
Network Effect by Martha Wells
Read September 2020 Recommended for fans of action AI ★ ★ ★ ★ First of all, it’s Murderbot. So ‘four stars’ here is about a million for a normal read. But I struggled with Network Effect. Yes, … Continue reading
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Read June 2020 Recommended for fans of the movie ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Put me down for “liked the movie a little more.” “But scientific power is like inherited wealth: attained without discipline. You read what others … Continue reading
A Game of Ghosts by John Connolly
Read January 2020 Recommended for fans of Charlie Parker ★ ★ ★ “A new fall of snow had settled upon the old, like memories, like the years. It would freeze, too, according to the weathermen, adding another … Continue reading
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