Category: Suspense

April 8, 2011

The Seer of Shadows by Avi ** (of 4)

The time is 1870s, the first widespread use of photography for regular people. It is Manhattan and the wealthy are beginning to pay for the...

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February 25, 2011

The Girl Who Played with Fire by Steig Larson **** (of 4)

The by now famous protagonist, Lisbeth Salander, is once again assaulted, chased, and utterly alone. The plot contains full doses of sex and violence, the...

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July 14, 2010

Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell *** (of 4)

The first in the series. Kurt Wallender is a contemporary Swedish policeman who true to the genre of crime fiction is recently divorced, has trouble...

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July 14, 2010

Bangkok Haunts by John Burdett **** ( of 4)

It’s difficult to write a series of detective stories with the same cop in the same location and not get stale. Burdett, now writing book...

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July 14, 2010

Bangkok Tatoo by John Burdett *** (of 4)

This is the second in Burdett’s series starring a devout Buddhist cop whose boss is corrupt and whose mother runs a successful whorehouse for aging...

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July 14, 2010

Bangkok 8 by John Burdett *** (of 4)

It’s a mystery. I read mysteries not for the crime but to learn something about other places and times. This one takes place inside the...

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July 13, 2010

Pleading Guilty by Scott Turow ** (of 4)

A former Irish copper (really, that’s what Turow calls him, a copper) now an ex-alcoholic flunky in a powerful law firm goes on the hunt...

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June 29, 2010

Hunting Eichmann by Neal Bascomb **** (of 4)

Adolph Eichmann, architect, planner, and executor of “The Final Solution” for the Jews escaped to Argentina at the end of the World War II. It...

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April 29, 2010

Red Sea by Emily Benedek *** (of 4)

A well-researched post 9/11 thriller with Middle Eastern jihadists sending dirty nuclear bombs toward American ports while being hunted down by an Israeli secret agent,...

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April 29, 2010

Life of Pi, by Yann Martel **** (of 4)

I loved it. A great piece of storytelling. Sure, there were plenty of bits worth analyzing-science vs. religion, first world vs. third world, true vs....

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