Category: Suspense

April 21, 2013

Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson ** (of 4)

A computer hacker living in an unnamed Arab country with enough liberties to allow full internet access crosses the secret police who are monitoring his...

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March 17, 2013

HHhH by Laurent Binet **** (of 4)

Reinhard Heydrich, The Blonde Beast, ruled Czechoslovakia for the Nazis until he was assassinated in 1942. One of Hitler’s favorites — how is it I...

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February 21, 2013

The Hot Country by Robert Olen Butler ** (of 4)

The first in a series about a rough and tumble journalist, Christopher Marlowe Cobb, who in this episode finds himself covering a delicate series of...

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February 3, 2013

Code Name Verity *** (of 4) by Elizabeth Wein

This is the tale of a irrepressible friendship between two women doing very unusual jobs. It is World War II and England is barely holding its own...

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November 30, 2012

Istanbul Passage by Joseph Kanon ** (of 4)

Very rarely is an author’s style so obstructionist that it interferes, but sadly, Kanon’s frequent indecipherability kept me from finishing. Too bad. I was in...

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October 11, 2012

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman *** (of 4)

Richard Mayhew, a boring British office worker, finds himself fighting for his life in London Below, a dark mysterious world beneath London’s subway system. Heroes...

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July 19, 2012