Ever since I’ve first heard of the book Collusion by Newt Gingrich, I wanted to pick it up. After all, regardless on which side of the fence you are, collusion is one of the biggest topics in the US and around the world (when it comes to US politics) right now. When Brett Garrett flew to a Latin American country to extract a valuable person from kidnappers, little did he know that his act of humanity would cost him big time. It would destroy his career, life, and put him on a path of self-destruction. Now, Brett is a simple […] Read more »

I picked up The Good Detective by John McMahon because it’s a new start of a series and it’s published this very month. The story seemed intriguing – a detective tasked to solve a murder when he seems to be the one to have committed the crime? Sign me up. P.T. Marsh has been a rising star on the Mason Falls, Georgia, police department until the year before when his wife and kid had been killed during an accident. Since then, Marsh has been drinking a lot and has been more and more careless with his daily tasks. So much […] Read more »

The Perfect Girlfriend by Karen Hamilton is a standalone psychological thriller that really made me think and, honestly, left me a bit confused after the last chapter. The story is told from Juliette’s point of view. Juliette is a woman obsessed with one guy: Nate, an aircraft pilot, who has recently dumped her. She is not one to let things go, so the book is literally her scheming to get him back and keep him – forever if possible. Up to a point, I understood this obsession. Nobody likes it when they are dumped, no matter the reason, and many people […] Read more »

Harlan Coben is an author I never get disappointed in, and Run Away is a book that, once again, shows that Harlan Coben hasn’t lost his mojo yet. All the standalone Harlan Coben books are edge-of-your-seat action-packed novels mixed with psychological thriller elements, and Run Away is a prime example of this. While the action is a constant in the book, there is so much more to it than that. Usually, his books tackle the issue of a family member (usually the wife) disappearance while the husband is looking for her. This time around, the focus is on wayward children […] Read more »

Long Road to Mercy is the first book in the Atlee Pine thriller series by David Baldacci. Atlee is a special agent with the FBI who moved to a remote location in the Grand Canyon wilderness where she lives and works as the sole representative of the FBI. I have read so far almost all the David Baldacci books, and I have to admit that Atlee Pine might just become one of my new favorite series with Atlee being one of my favorite characters created by this author. When she was around 5, she was in her bedroom with her […] Read more »

The Suspect is the third Fiona Barton book in the Kate Waters mystery series. I haven’t read the first two books, but I was confident that I could follow the story nevertheless. Kate Waters is a journalist whose son went missing some two years ago in Thailand. So when she hears of a new case involving two missing girls in Thailand, she jumps to the offer to start investigating the case. Alex, Lesley’s daughter, went with her friend, Rosia, to Thailand during summer vacation a few weeks ago. Initially, she kept contacting her folks but lately nothing. Especially strange is […] Read more »