Detective Napoleon Dumas (also called “Nap”) is a detective in New Jersey. He’s in his mid-30s, good at his job, but forever brooding. Something happened many years ago that forever changed him. His twin brother, Leo, and his girlfriend committed suicide during their senior high-school years. Nobody knows why; they only know that the couple…
Charlatans is the latest medical thriller by the well-known author Robin Cook. The story starts with upcoming surgery of Bruce, staff working in the same hospital. Bruce is late for his hernia surgery because he feels it’s his duty to keep working until the last minute. When he gets on the operation table, as predictable, things…
Hello Again is part of the Brenda Novak books in order. It is the second book by Brenda Novak in her Evelyn Talbot Chronicles taking place in Alaska at the Hanover House prison. We’ve already met Evelyn in the first book in the series where she went through several deadly adventures in the Alaskan wilderness….
The Life We Bury is the debut novel of the author Allen Eskens. When the book was published back in 2014, I had no idea the author even existed. Now, reading the Allen Eskens books in order means catching up to no less than four books with the latest published in 2017. Truth be told,…
In Hide and Seek by M.J. Arlidge, Helen Grace is in prison for a crime she didn’t commit (we know that). Sadly, except for her loyal readers, the only other person who believes Helen is DS Charlie Brooks, who is her loyal teammate and friend. Everybody else was quick to believe Helen’s guilt and forget all…
I’ve been eagerly waiting for Origin by Dan Brown to be published. I even knew the exact day it would come out, and when it was finally released, I bought it right away. That’s how much I love the Robert Langdon series by one of my favorite authors. Out of the blue, Robert Langdon receives…
The Last Move is the latest standalone romantic-suspense thriller by the popular author Mary Burton. It focuses on Theo Mazur, a veteran detective who moved from Chicago to San Antonio to be near his daughter, and Kate Hayden, an FBI agent who has just found the latest victim of a vicious serial killer. Thankfully, the victim…
Sleep, Savannah, Sleep by Alistair Cross is a standalone psychological thriller with some hints of supernatural (the supernatural elements only start in the second half of the book). Jason Crandall, recently widowed, decided to start life anew in another part of the country. So he took his two kids (Brent, his almost 18-years-old son, and…
Blame is a standalone novel by Jeff Abbott, the author of the Sam Capra series. I love the series, so I was curious about his other books, thus I picked up Blame. After a few pages, the first thing I said to myself was: “No, not another amnesia book!”. However, I shouldn’t have worried. This…
The Bequest is the second book in Nancy Boyarsky’s Nicole Graves mystery series. I haven’t read the first book, but I had no major problems following the plot or understanding the characters. Nicole Graves, a prestigious lawyer, has just come back from the UK, where she was supposed to meet her boyfriend, Ronald Reinhardt, who was…
