Thanks to RandomHouse/Ballantine and NetGalley for a copy of The Perfect Wife by JP Delaney in exchange for an honest review. I’m very fond of woman-in-danger psychological thrillers, so I was eager to read this book. For some reason, I kept having trouble getting into it, but it turned out to be a fun read. …
I received an advance copy of William Kent Krueger’s This Tender Land from Atria Books and NetGalley in return for this honest review. My brief advice is, if you are one of the MANY people who loved this spring’s smash hit from Delia Owens entitled Where The Crawdads Sing, definitely add this one to your …
Apparently, The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter, featuring the characters Will Trent and Sara Linton, is the NINTH in the Will Trent series…who knew? Apparently, LOTS of people! And I am a sucker for the psychological-thriller-woman-in-danger genre, so it sounded like a good fit for me. The overview gives three clues: A mysterious kidnapping, a …
NOTE: some of this is taken from my review of deMille’s The Cuban Affair (2017). Nineteen years ago, someone whose opinions on books NEVER matched mine recommended Lion’s Game by Nelson DeMille, and I LOVED it. Since then, I’ve grabbed every new DeMille book and been puzzled by the inconsistency: for example, Night Fall was terrific. The Panther? Not so …
I graduated high school in the mid-sxties, so the time period of the Manson murders was right up my alley. The killing spree took place over two nights, when the “family” of young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people. There didn’t seem to be any discernible motive, and the nationwide freakout that followed seemed …
I was happy to receive a copy of Ruth Ware’s new novel, The Turn of the Key, from Gallery/Pocket Books/Scout Press and NetGalley in return for my honest review. I enjoyed The Woman in Cabin 10 and didn’t really care for The Death of Mrs. Westaway, so I was pretty neutral in my expectations for …
AsI have stated before, I have been a diehard fan of Robert Crais/Elvis Cole/Joe Pike for THIRTY YEARS. Seriously, when The Monkey’s Raincoat was published in 1987, I was working in a public library, grabbed it as soon as it came in, and was HOOKED. Since then, this has been one of the most reliable …