Category Archives: Thrillers
DEBBI MACK & MARIA PEASE – Their Sam Thrillers.
Two thriller authors – World Women’s Day, so I can’t say Authoresses – both with their Sam protagonists (protagonistas? heroines), both legal thrillers, or at least, of their Sams, one is a paralegal and the other a lawyer. I am … Continue reading
GOLDEN PREY – John Sandford (Davenport #27)
I was stunned to see that the Lucas Davenport series still ploughs on steadily with this, the 27th offering, and, no, it shows no signs of being dead in the water. There is a change of flag in that Lucas … Continue reading
HUNTER’S VENOM – Peter J. Earle
A review by JIM NESBITT of the first in the Detective Sgt. DICE MODISE SERIES. One of the finest features of a Peter J. Earle detective novel is the rich and evocative detail he provides of the landscape of southern … Continue reading
THE DEEPEST GRAVE – Harry Bingham
DS Fiona Griffiths no.6. You and I might be hooked on, now Detective Sergeant, Fiona Griffiths, but her new boss, DI Bleddyn Jones, nre head of the Major Crimes Unit in Cardiff, is not. Oh, yes, he is a good dedicated … Continue reading
A Sense of Place – TEXAS 2
TEXAS: CREATING A LONE STAR SENSE OF PLACE FOR GRITTY CRIME NOVELS By Jim Nesbitt I come from a long line of hillbilly storytellers who instilled in me a deep and abiding sense of family, time and place as well … Continue reading
MARKED FOR LIFE – Emilie Schepp
Tense as a drawn bowstring, this is a fire-cracker of a read, bristling with glimpses into the horrific dark pool of human depravity involving the enslaved children of murdered immigrants. Swedish police detectives, and, together with a prosecutor, are baffled … Continue reading
SMOOTH OPERATOR – Stewart Woods & Parnell Hall
Teddy Fay, or whatever he is calling himself these days, has just been launched in his own new series. Teddy Fay, ex-CIA, officially long dead, scrubbed his own records clean and has never existed. Prolific thriller novelist Stuart Woods has … Continue reading
BLIND SIGHT -Carol O’Connell
In an oddly stuttering narrative, but very realistic action and thoughts, Carol O’Connell has an original way of putting the picture together. This is Series No. 12, featuring her tough, scary, prickly, female detective, Kathleen Mallory. A blind child, feeling … Continue reading
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