Category Archives: Book Review

City in Ruins by Don Winslow – Review

Posted on January 25, 2024 by John

City in Ruins by Don Winslow William Morrow General Fiction (Adult) | Mystery & Thrillers Pub Date 02 Apr 2024 DESCRIPTION/SYNOPSIS: Following City on Fire and City of Dreams, City in Ruins is the explosive, impossible to put down conclusion … Continue reading →

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The Night House by Joe Nesbo – Review

Posted on October 17, 2023 by John

The Night House A Novel by Jo Nesbo Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor, Knopf General Fiction (Adult) | Horror Pub Date: October 3, 2023 DESCRIPTION/SYNOPSIS: From the internationally best-selling author, a chilling fresh spin on the classic horror novel • … Continue reading →

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System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, 7) by Martha Wells – Review

Posted on September 19, 2023 by John

System Collapse by Martha Wells Tor Publishing Group Sci Fi & Fantasy Pub Date: 14 Nov 2023 DESCRIPTION/SYNOPSIS: Everyone’s favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells’s New York Times bestselling Murderbot Diaries series. Am I … Continue reading →

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The Quiet Tenant (Clémence Michallon) – Review

Posted on August 6, 2023 by John

The Quiet Tenant Clémence Michallon Knopf Mystery/Thriller Pub Date: 20 Jun 2023 DESCRIPTION/SYNOPSIS: A PULSE-POUNDING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER ABOUT A SERIAL KILLER NARRATED BY THOSE CLOSEST TO HIM: HIS 13-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER, HIS GIRLFRIEND—AND THE ONE VICTIM HE HAS SPARED Aidan Thomas … Continue reading →

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The Edge of Sleep (Jake Emanuel, Willie Block) – Review

Posted on July 2, 2023 by John

The Edge of Sleep Jake Emanuel, Willie Block St. Martin’s Press SF/Horror Pages: 304 Pub Date: June 20, 2023 DESCRIPTION/SYNOPSIS: What if the whole world fell asleep…and didn’t wake up again? Dave Torres, a night watchman in a placid coastal … Continue reading →

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Sing Her Down (Ivy Pochoda) – Review

Posted on June 7, 2023 by John

Sing Her Down Ivy Pochoda Farrar, Straus and Giroux, MCD Mystery & Thrillers Pages: 288 Pub Date: May 23, 2023 DESCRIPTION: No Country for Old Men meets Killing Eve in this gritty, feminist Western thriller from the award-winning author of … Continue reading →

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Breathless (Amy McCulloch) – Review

Posted on May 22, 2022 by John

Breathless Amy McCulloch Anchor SYNOPSIS: Journalist Cecily Wong is in over her head. She’s come to Manaslu, the eighth-highest peak in the world, to interview internationally famous mountaineer Charles McVeigh on the last leg of a record-breaking series of summits. … Continue reading →

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My Heart is a Chainsaw (Stephen Graham Jones) – Review

Posted on May 22, 2022 by John

My Heart Is a Chainsaw Stephen Graham Jones Gallery / Saga Press SYNOPSIS: “Some girls just don’t know how to die…” Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that … Continue reading →

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Holly and the Nobodies (Ben Pienaar) – Review

Posted on September 6, 2021 by John

Holly and the Nobodies Ben Pienaar HellBound Books SYNOPSIS: Holly Anderson is a lonely girl, born with the power to materialize living beings from thin air. When she decides to kidnap a ‘real’ person to be her friend, schoolgirl Alex … Continue reading →

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Falling: A Novel (T. J. Newman) – Review

Posted on August 11, 2021 by John

Falling: A Novel T. J. Newman Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster SYNOPSIS: You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before … Continue reading →

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