Category: Suspense

July 21, 2014

Shake Off by Mischa Hiller **** (of 4)

The protagonist, he goes by several aliases, but Michel Khoury appears to be his given name, is a former Palestinian refugee from Lebanon. His parents...

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July 6, 2014

The Tears of Autumn by Charles McCrarry *** (of 4)

OK, it’s a period piece Spy Novel. Think Ian Fleming. Sean Connery. In this caper, Paul Christopher works for the CIA and he speeds around the...

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May 5, 2014

Life after Life by Kate Atkinson **** (of 5)

On the first page, Ursala Todd has the opportunity to shoot Hitler in 1930 and does so. No wait. A few pages later Ursula is...

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March 31, 2014

Sycamore Row by John Grisham **** (of 4)

It is the mid 1980s in Mississippi and Seth Hubbard, a cantankerous old buzzard, and self made millionaire hangs himself. Just before setting out for...

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March 30, 2014

Frozen in Time by Mitchell Zuckoff *** (of 4)

To ferry supplies, munitions, and personnel to the European front in WW II required skipping across allied airfields in Canada, Greenland, and Iceland. The major...

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January 25, 2014

The Round House by Louise Erdrich **** (of 4)

Joe, the story’s thirteen-year-old narrator, is a Native American living on a reservation in North Dakota. His mother has just been raped, not unusual as...

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December 8, 2013

How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny **** (of 5)

The ninth book in the Detective Armand Gamache series is a completely lovable installment. Gamache must locate a missing person with a false identity at...

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August 18, 2013

Norwegian by Night by Derek B. Miller *** (of 4)

Sheldon Horowitz is 82-years-old with a prostate, he lets us know right away, the size of a watermelon. After his wife’s recent death he is...

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July 14, 2013

The Missing File by D.A. Mishani *** (of 4)

Why are so many contemporary detectives so depressed? Here’s another: Detective Avraham Avraham, a lonely, single, self-doubting Israeli detective slogging into a job that utterly...

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May 24, 2013