by Eric Stalker | Jun 29, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller, Sponsored
Waking from visions of an unfamiliar escape by boat from Denmark, journalist Natalie Seachrist tries to focus on her pending move. Still processing the murder of her great-niece and the death of her Aunt, Natalie looks forward to her move into her Aunt’s old house...
by L Ruby Hannigan | Nov 15, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
Mary DiNunzio is in her best form in Lisa Scottoline’s latest novel, Exposed. Needing Mary’s help in this thriller is Simon, a son of one of Mary’s “uncles” and so is considered “family” by all of Mary’s extended Italian...
by Whitney Smyth | Sep 12, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction, Mystery, Crime & Thriller, NW Publishers, Sponsored
Catherine is a bit of a recluse – a voluntary shut-in who spends her days painting portraits. She is forced to leave her comfort zone when she gets word that her sister, Sister Mary Gretchen, has died, and the Mother Superior won’t tell her more until she arrives at...
by Maria Whelan | Jan 26, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
Karin Slaughter’s heart-racing psychological thriller The Kept Woman follows Will Trent, an officer at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation who stumbles upon a crime scene that hits incredibly close to home. When Will learns that the gun found on the scene belongs to...
by Ashley McCall | Dec 27, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller, Romance
Some people just stumble into their desires. Anna Blanc, the eponymous main character of Jennifer Kincheloe’s novel, The Secret Life of Anna Blanc, is a bored rich girl, afforded all of life’s niceties but chafing under her father’s thumb, stifled by...